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The Peruvian Congress on Wednesday approved an amnesty law for members of the Armed Forces, the National Police, and self-defense militias over the age of 80 who were prosecuted or convicted for crimes committed during Peru’s internal armed conflict, despite continuing concern from human rights groups. The president of the committee that drafted the legislation, [...]

India has long been hailed as a moral and material sanctuary for displaced populations in South Asia. Despite not being a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol, the country has crafted a robust historical identity as a haven for persecuted communities. From the Zoroastrians fleeing Iran in the 8th century, to [...]

President Trump said during an Oval Office meeting April 14 that it would be up to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to decide whether mistakenly deported man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia would be allowed back to the United States. President Bukele responded by stating that he did not “have the power to return him” and [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. The past weeks have witnessed an unprecedented escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the terrorist killings of tourists on Indian soil in the town of Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). While the near-fratricidal [...]

Hamas authorities on Sunday released the last American hostage, a 21-year-old named Edan Alexander who was reunited with his family after meeting them in Israel. The Israeli prime minister’s office announced that Edan’s release will not be tied to “anything in return,” with the government’s current policy on Gaza expected to continue. Alexander was taken [...]

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 3L.   Familiar blue and white flags flutter from balconies across Tel Aviv today, marking Israel’s 77th Independence Day. The smell of barbecues, a Yom Ha’atzmaut staple, drifts on [...]

Part one of the series can be found here. Let us come up the rough side of the mountain. After writing “Embracing the Repression,” I was asked about how to make courage contagious. After mulling this over for some time, I have concluded that I do not know for certain. That said, courage has a [...]

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated following terrorist attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 28 civilians. India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring these attacks, threatening several countermeasures. India has suspended the Indus Water Treaty, and in response, Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian international flights. It is feared that India might strike Pakistan with [...]

Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won an overwhelming amount of support from the majority Sinhalese community as well as the minority Tamil community, receiving a historic supermajority in the November 2024 Parliamentary elections. This broad mandate across ethnic lines presents a historic opportunity to address [...]

“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind…Usually, they have wreaked havoc.” – Sigmund Freud, Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study US President Donald Trump’s policies are not just matters of domestic law, but also international law in that the Trump administration’s harmful [...]