Iman Lahouaoula

Spanning over 9.5 million square kilometers, encompassing over 1.3 billion people and a rich history, China is far from a homogeneous society, in both people and land. However, under President Xi Jinping’s rule, China has made its beliefs…
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In North America, the treatment of individuals suffering from mental illness has shifted dramatically over time. From institutionalization to de-institutionalization to our current middle ground of stigmatization, one element has remained…
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Among the top 10 immigrant-friendly nations include Canada and the United States, unsurprisingly, as both of these nations take on an incredibly large number of immigrants yearly. Nearly 21% of Canada’s population is foreign-born whereas…
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Currently, every country around the world has abolished slavery, though the final country to do so was Mauritania, only a few decades ago, in 1981. It would seem, as taught in modern history courses, that slavery is an institution of the…
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Like a broken record, Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of Myanmar has come under fire for her recent commentary, or rather lack thereof, on the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. After over a month of…
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A little over a month ago, sudden news emerged that four Arab countries, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, had abruptly cut ties with fellow Arab and Gulf country, Qatar. It was a move that seemed to have emerged out of…
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A world superpower equipped with one of the largest economies in the world, China has indisputably become a dominant power on the international stage. However, the largest nation in the world can hardly be seen as an equal to its Western…
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Accusations of human rights abuses are nothing new to Russia and most recently, the situation has reached an alarming climax as the Chechnya region in Russia has come under fire for a multitude of reported abuses and persecution of the…
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With the summer months looming ahead, many of us imagine being on a beach with the scorching sun on our backs, calmly erasing any stress from the previous year. For others, a much darker reality lies ahead. The same water, the same…
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The newly-elected United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off the new year with a stirring speech, highlighting the importance of overcoming differences and working as a team in “putting peace first”. Guerres offers an…
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While Santa Claus will be making his annual tour around the world, December 25th for residents of Amona in the West Bank is a day that will be met with anxiety and uncertainty. On November 13th, a group of Israeli ministers put forth a…
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With a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and a feature Netflix documentary under their belt, not to mention the 60 000 lives they have saved, the Syrian Civil Defense (SCD), commonly known as the White Helmets, are continuing to leave a mark of…
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Military coup, dictatorship, fragile democracy - Myanmar, also known as Burma, has experienced it all. Independence hero, General Aung San could have never predicted his newly independent country was to become one of the most detrimental…
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