Every single action you take on the internet is tracked and linked back to you – and it’s more valuable than you think. It’s the kind of information that constitutes the majority of what your private data entails: everything from your digital traces to your purchases to your Google searches and to your “likes” is…
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Too Little, Too Late
Cut off from access to the best hospitals, the best medical resources, and government support for remote indigenous communities in Canada. As governments around the world scrambled to act to protect their interests and their citizens as the severity of COVID-19 first became apparent, historically marginalized communities needs were disregarded. The indigenous people of Canada…
There’s Something in the Air: Chicago’s Hunger Strike Against Environmental Racism
Activists on Chicago’s Southeast Side were on a month long hunger strike to protest the opening of a scrapyard in their area, another instance of environmental racism negatively impacting the health of this predominantly Latinx & Black neighborhood.
Chronic Absenteeism on the Rise in U.S Schools During the Pandemic
It’s been nearly a year since the start of the pandemic. The world has had to adapt to the startling emergence of COVID-19 and its crippling effects. One significant consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the changes made to education: students at all levels have had their education negatively affected by the pandemic. The…
Slavery Is Not Dead: Remaining Hurdles to Abolishing Slavery in Mauritania
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ostensibly eradicated slavery from the world in 1948 — and yet, slavery continues to abound in Mauritania, where large swaths of the Haratine minority are enslaved by the Arab-Berber majority. According to recent estimates, nearly twenty percent of the local population — one out of every two Haratines —…
Democracy: a Possible Death Route in Laos
The disappearance of the LSMD student activists and Sombath Somphone highlight the horrific reality that voicing one’s opinion in Laos can amount to a death sentence.
A Statement in Support of Asian American communities
The Rights Stuff stands in solidarity with Asian American communities across the United States, in mourning of the recent hate crime that took place in Georgia, as well as the countless horrific acts of violence and murders towards Asian American communities that has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is clear that the violent incident…
Examining the Farmer Protests in India through the lens of Food Regimes and the Hunger Crisis
How the Neoliberal Food Regime impacts the global hunger crisis and farmer-led protests across India
The Latin American Refugee Crisis and the Cartagena Declaration
Four years ago, immigration became front and center in American politics, specifically with then-candidate Trump’s portrayal of Mexican immigrants coming into the United States. Of course, not every American view Latin Americans as rapists or criminals, but the term “illegal immigrant” and those seeking asylum once they live in the United States tell what it…
On the Termination of Species: A Case for Biodiversity
As the planet grows to acknowledge the environmental issues of climate change and global warming, emphasis on the rising temperatures, sea levels, and weather impacts on human civilization have been at the forefront of raising awareness. If nothing else, the historical trend of mankind’s development has indicated our collective sense of self-importance, centering the issue…
