Since its inception, the Statelessness Project of Boston University International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) has advocated for the adoption of gender-equal nationality legislation — granting men and women equal access to nationality and citizenship rights. As of today, 24 countries do not allow women to pass their nationality to their…

“Thank you for believing in change,” His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Chairman of the Qatar Bid Committee told FIFA. “Thank you for believing in Qatar. We will not let you down, you will be proud of us.” To prepare for the World Cup, Qatar undertook numerous infrastructure…

Responsibility Sharing at Home is Already Happening — Let’s Make it Just. From the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/the-artist-jr-lifts-a-mexican-child-over-the-border-wall From the summer of 2022 through mid-September, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used state funds to transport recently arrived migrants to large, democratically governed cities like New York, Chicago…

Asylum seekers coming to the United States fleeing violence in their home countries may face the very harm they sought to escape under immigration policies that allow the United States to ignore its own role in migrant disappearances at the border. The federal government has used an outdated public health…

In the late 1990s, Morocco was considered a popular transit country due to its close proximity to Europe, namely Spain. It was not until the last decade or so that Morocco’s migrant and refugee population dramatically increased. Much of the increase is a direct result of conflicts that escalated during…

Background to the 73rd Session of the CESCR Review of China Last week from February 13th until February 16th representatives from Boston University’s International Human Rights Clinic (the Clinic) headed to Geneva to participate in the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights’ (CESCR) review of China. Students from the…

Xinjiang, a region in western China, made headlines in late November 2022 when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building, killing at least ten Uyghur people and sparking widespread protests across the country. The Uyghurs are predominantly Muslim and Turkic people living primarily in western China’s Xinjiang region…

Imagine being born in a country and living there your whole life but never being able to prove it. You have no birth certificate, no government issued ID, no passport, and no way to get any of those documents that prove that you exist. This is the struggle that countless…

Over the last decade, an estimated 40,000 persons have left their countries to join ISIS. Tunisian nationals who joined ISIS in Iraq, Libya or Syria are estimated at between 4,500–6,000, making Tunisia the country with the highest number of ISIS fighters and affiliates per its population. Tunisia owes a duty…