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Yale University officials stood by silently as students unveiled a large "Free Palestine" banner during an official class photograph for the School of the Environment. The move came after university officials said they had warned students not to display "political messages," according to internal emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Yale Law School's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the group that celebrated the murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7 and praised the architects of the attack as "martyrs," is calling on the school to cancel an event with a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, arguing that his presence on campus will make students unsafe.

Junta attack on displaced civilians kills scores, including children (BANGKOK, October 11, 2023)—In the wake of a Myanmar junta attack on displaced persons and other residents in Laiza, Kachin State, that killed dozens of civilians including children, ...

ICJ rules against Myanmar junta request for an extension in genocide trial

Yale is expanding its Scholars at Risk program, which welcomes scholars facing dangerous conditions worldwide to campus so they can continue their work.

Suspend Myanmar Junta Participation, Enact Emergency Measures to Protect Civilians

Leila Sadat, a law professor and founder of the Initiative on Gun Violence & Human Rights at Washington University in St. Louis, equates the U.S. government’s failure to prevent and reduce gun violence with violating children's human rights. “The pitiful spectacle of politicians offering ‘thoughts and prayers’ as kids are buried is lamentable — and an abdication of their oath of office,” Sadat recently wrote in an essay. "Children have a fundamental human right not to...

Violence and civil unrest

Myanmar has been embroiled in violence and civil unrest since the military ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in February 2021. The initially widespread peaceful protests were

Last year, a military junta seized power and imprisoned the country’s civilian leader. A popular resistance movement has been met with brutal force, including the recent execution of four democracy activists.