Leah Waid

Leah Waid is a staff writer at the Harvard International Review. She studies History and Russian Studies and is interested in global human rights, forced migration, and labor exploitation.

Human Rights

Tracing the Untraceable: New Technologies that Monitor Displaced Persons and the History of Population Control

"When it comes to refugee assistance, how do aid organizations, which are often funded by governments that are indirectly responsible for their displacement, balance those refugees’ right to privacy against the very real bodily threats that they face?"

Europe

Human Trafficking: The Secret to Putin's Economy

"As long as Putin refuses to acknowledge human trafficking in Russia, actively weakens the rule of law, and blocks activists from helping those in need, Russia will continue to be a hotspot for international slave trade."