Thousands in Somalia Dead Due to the Current Famine
There are few things that are more upsetting then seeing children suffer at the hands of something that can be avoided. Somalia is now facing the first official famine in nearly 30 years. Africa has...
View ArticleViolence in Syria: You Can Kill the Protester, But You Can’t Kill the Protest
Sometimes you disagree with your government, but you cannot let the status quo continue; you have to make your voice heard in hopes that the government will pay attention and make a change. There are...
View ArticleKurdistan Says No to FGM
While male circumcision begins to go out of style in the United States, female genital mutilation (FGM) also begins to lose its appeal to traditionalists in the Middle East. FGM is also known as female...
View ArticleYou May Say I’m a Dreamer: A Look at the Millennium Development Goals
Peace. It’s a pretty simple idea. It’s a pretty amazing possibility, and more important, it’s an even more immediate need. People fight wars, pen words on paper, create art, battle diseases, protect...
View ArticleTaking a Stand: Campaigning to End Domestic Violence in the United States (We...
On August 23, 2011 UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Rashida Manjoo cautioned the United States that their response to domestic violence and their attitude to its victims isn’t enough. In...
View ArticleBold Statements: When Fashion Does More Than Sit There and Look Pretty
I love clothes. I am the very definition of a fashionista. But you know what is better than pretty clothes? Clothes that have a conscience or at least attempt to do more than look pretty and make money...
View ArticleTaking the Child out of the War: Child Soldiers and the Need for Global...
“I feel so bad about the things that I did. It disturbs me so much that I inflicted death on other people. When I go home I must do some traditional rites because I have killed. I must perform these...
View ArticleWhy Your Love Affair With Chocolate Hurts More Than Just Your Wallet
Remember that box of chocolates you got for Valentine’s Day or Christmas? The secret stash you have in the darkest recesses of your desk drawer, halfheartedly hoping you might manage to forget it’s...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Image: Exploitation of Suffering in Media
After watching several films for a class about the way media portrays atrocities, the inevitable question of censoring graphic content arose. When, exactly, is it acceptable to show bloody bodies,...
View ArticleThe Silent Battle: Corrective Rape in South Africa
While South Africa was the first African country to make gay marriage legal and while they have a very progressive constitution regarding gay rights, things are far from perfect for LGBT people in...
View ArticleDisappearing Faces: The Missing Lives in Kenya
Over 300 lives still have question marks attached, raising the questions: Are they still alive? Are they dead? This is the life of those “disappeared” Kenyans and their families live after the Mt....
View ArticleWould You Let Yourself Die Because You’re Pregnant? – A Brief Look into the...
I would never have thought, up until recently, that the direction and quality of my life, or any woman’s life, could be reduced to a number. But that is the threat that is facing women in the United...
View ArticleEcuador’s Ministry of Health Hopes To Torture LGBT Straight
The Ex-Gay Movement has been around as early as 1973. Basically, it is the belief that homosexual individuals can become heterosexual. Not only is this idea absurd, but also the means these...
View ArticleSOPA/HR3261: The Bill That Could Kill Free Speech
You’re reading this article, so you’re one of the millions of people around the world who use the internet in their everyday lives. Go through your average day in your head: do you watch videos on...
View ArticleSyria: The Violence Isn’t Over Yet
Back in August I wrote a piece on the violence in Syria. There were mass killings of protestors trying to fight for their own rights. Even though it’s been almost three months, nothing has changed....
View ArticleUse Your Words: Amnesty International’s Write for Rights Campaign
It’s happening now. Right now. People like you and me are being imprisoned, ignored, beaten, denied justice because of what they believe in, what they want, who they are. Some haven’t seen their family...
View ArticleA Major Rise in the Amount of Homeless Children
I am writing this from my laptop at home where I am lucky to have heat and a comfortable bed and hot water at my disposal. For many children in America right now, this is not a reality. A report just...
View ArticleRacism in English Football: Suarez and Terry Dirty the Pitch
Racism in sports is not a new occurrence, but it’s recently been made a criminal activity on the English pitch. Personally, I think it’s taken far to long for it to be recognized. I know there is also...
View ArticlePaying for Our Fear: Making Reparations for the American Eugenics Movement
It was a dangerous place to be born—the United States. As recently as the 1970s, depending on where you were born, there was the possibility that you might not have been born. Because of concerns about...
View ArticleThe Option of Better: Progress With Stem Cells
If you can’t see, what are you able to safely do? If you’re overcome by the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, how long can you maintain your job or many day to day activities that you once performed...
View ArticleWhen Everything is Out of Reach: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone
In 2009 Amnesty International released the report “Out of Reach: The Cost of Maternal Health in Sierra Leone” on maternal mortality. Despite the fact that the report was released in 2009, it accounts...
View ArticleGranting Access to Choice: An Intrusion or Something to be Thankful For?
We’re not all going to agree—and isn’t that okay? That freedom of being able to voice our own opinions, and the expectation that we aren’t going to be belittled or denied that opportunity to believe...
View ArticleThe War on Contraception Rages On
As the days go by, the coverage of contraception and its role in health care and insurance has only grown. President Obama’s plan calls for contraception to be covered under all health insurance...
View ArticleTunisia’s Homophobia
In a recent episode of FOX’s Glee, one of the recurring (but not main) characters attempted to kill himself. It’s not something that is very shocking for a teenage melodrama, but the reasoning is what...
View ArticleIn Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields Child Labor Is Not A Thing of the Past
We live in a modern society and sometimes it’s easy to forget that not everyone is as lucky as we are. I say we, because if you are reading this, chances are you have internet at your home, work, local...
View ArticleThere is No Substitute for VAWA: The US Senate Takes a Step in the Right...
There’s a time and a place for a lot of change. And that time is now. With so much happening politically within the United States and around the world, millions of eyes have been on the US Senate...
View ArticlePunk Is Seen as a Criminal Act to Some Governments
When most people think of punk, they think of mohawks, studded leather and kids with bad attitudes. Punk is more accurately described as a lifestyle than a music genre, and only to fans is it something...
View ArticleViolence Against Women in Afghanistan Continues
It is a frightening time for women in Afghanistan. While the western world battles with the oppression of an idea through sexism in Hollywood, Afghani woman are protesting for their rights to live....
View ArticleTexas Man With Mental Disability to be Executed
In 1992, Marvin Wilson was charged with murder. 10 years later he now faces the death penalty, but there is a problem with the verdict: Wilson is said to legally be a mentally disabled and has an IQ of...
View ArticleControversial Gay Propaganda Bill Plagues Ukraine Once Again
The spectre of a bill that was almost passed in Ukraine earlier this year has returned – with a vengeance. Law 8711, which if passed would outlaw any positive depictions of homosexuality (which the...
View Article
