I came across the following post, Is it Child Abuse if a Parent Rejects their LGBT Child?, and it got me thinking, that while over the last years society has definitely changed and progressed in a positive manner regarding gay rights and acceptance, this issue is still a sensitive one. Most can clearly remember the […]
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted today of creating a military death squad that killed 50 people and kidnapped many more during his rule. Fujimori, who disbanded Peru’s legislature and purged its judiciary during his first term, is widely credited with winning the government’s long military campaign against terrorist groups Shining Path and Tupac […]
With a dismal track record and all the debris that gets washed up and stuck in Washington’s wretched gut, Republicans are now blackmailing Obama into not disclosing Bush’s darkest secrets on his torture policy. Obama wants to nominate Dawn Johnsen as chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and Yale Law School […]
A top Israeli army official denied statements made by members of the Israeli military that soldiers had committed war crimes in the offensive on the Gaza Strip. Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi discounted allegations raised in February that Israeli soldiers had violated the laws of war regarding actions against the civilian population […]
SOUTH AFRICA: A need to redefine “orphan Child-headed households certainly exist in South Africa, but the commonly held wisdom, reinforced by the media, that extended families cannot absorb any more orphans, and the number of child-headed households has been rising steeply in recent years due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, has never been backed up by […]
“Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet. Children hold the world in their hands, but what kind of world do they hold? The world, in which children are given for […]
I can imagine the scene in London right now, walking along the boardwalk, crossing the Millennium Bridge and facing the ominous Tate Modern in all its red brick glory. The Thames, below, running swiftly over all the waste tossed into its murky waters, decades of filth floating to the top – exposed. Across its bank, a young […]
It was April Fools’ Day, and so I naturally assumed that the good people at BBC were having a bit of fun when I read the headline “Guantanamo ‘fun’—Miss Universe”. As the BBC reported on the adventures of Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza, co-national of the always colorful and U.S.-bashing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: Ms Mendoza […]
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), the awareness month was established to raise awareness of sexual violence, and thus increase prevention. Every April events take place across the county, over the course of this month the goal of all of these events is to highlight the use of sexual violence, and its effects as […]
The other night I spent the evening screening two documentaries on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which were focused on the extensive use of rape as a weapon of war in the countries long going conflict. The evening was centered around one of the DRC’s woman’s activists, Sylvie Maunga Mbanga, a trained lawyer, who […]
The tribunal for the administrator of the notorious Cambodian S21 prison facility, Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, began Monday following years of delays. The court outlined its charges before Duch Monday, saying the prison chief supervised the execution of some 15,000 people during a quasi-eugenics campaign led by the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. […]
With resources stretched thin, aid agencies struggling to contain a cholera outbreak across all but one of Mozambique’s 10 provinces hope the approaching end of the rainy season will bring some relief. Over 12,000 cases and 157 deaths have been recorded since 1 January 2009. The latest Southern Africa Regional Cholera Update, compiled by the […]
Yes, we have caved in and joined the latest social-networking fad. You can now follow Women and Foreign Policy on Twitter. Barack Obama does…or so Twitter says.
I’m sorry that (for my part at least) posting has been sparse lately; I took a much-needed vacation and have been buried in work since I got back. Here are Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown arguing that it is in the Obama administration’s interest to take concrete action against al-Bashir. Money quote: First, he should […]
You can’t see her whole face but she is visibly upset as she breaks down. For the past eight months she has fled to five different cities in Turkey*. Both her father and her brother want her dead for not marrying a man much older than herself. At only 18, she now fears the very […]