Getting the Insight Out
The Canadian government’s Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls reveals systemic failures, entrenched in colonial, heteropatriarchal frameworks that perpetuate violence. Anthropologists Audra Simpson and Paulina García-Del Moral argue that productive change requires acknowledging settler-state motives and dismantling structural domination
Adopted by the UN on September 13th, 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) serves to uphold the rights that “constitute the minimum standards for More
Anti-monarchism is a thriving tradition dating back centuries and often finding global appeal. Nonetheless, the British monarchy has weathered the storm, persisting far past its political heyday, through countless scandals, More
Once again, systemic racism confronts the Canadian conscience, challenging Canada’s professed value of multiculturalism. The death of Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman from the community of Manawan, has resulted More
With some Native American communities in the United States struggling to cope with increasing numbers of COVID cases, a group of Irish citizens have taken the initiative to start a More
The ICJ’s momentous ruling on the status of the Chagos Islands last month initiated a surge of discussion on the issue of incomplete decolonization. It caused a stir not only More
In the wake of the International Women’s Day it is interesting to ask ourselves the question: what has the feminism we know today come to be and who does it More
An uglier side of Belgium’s history has once more made its way into the country’s national debate. On February 12, 2019, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of More
Early morning on January 7th, a number of Gabonese junior army officers stormed the national TV and radio station in Libreville, Gabon, claiming a seizure of power. Their leader, Lieutenant More
On the night of November 5th, 10 men were reportedly arrested for attending a same-sex wedding on the island of Zanzibar, just 25 kilometers off of the Tanzanian mainland. Despite More