By: Ian Bertschausen On September 17, 2016, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) filed an application to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding human rights violations that took place over ten years prior.[1] On May 3 and 4 of 2006, police in the Texoco and Salvador Atenco municipalities in Mexico State detained and […]
By: Matt Dennison On September 26th a historic peace accord was signed between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group to end a civil war that has ravaged the country since 1964. This accord came after multiple rounds of negotiations beginning in 2012. The agreement called for a a […]
By: Evan Friedland The fallout from the Panama Papers continues, as Denmark has now become the first country to publicly purchase the information—and it is not being released for peanuts. For those who do not know, the Panama papers are a collection of roughly 12.7 million documents detailing the offshore bank account information of suspected […]
By: Conrad Clifton In 2016, we would be hard-pressed to find an American who did not know the dangers of smoking. Since 1965, when the overall American population who smoked was 42.4%, smoking prevalence among adults has steadily declined to the 14.9% rate we are at now. While it is hard to pin-point one specific […]
