Human Rights
By Jatin Anand
Both the Radhakrishnan Dyeing Factory and the Muthialpettai Dyeing Factory, with their eleven and nine-member workforce respectively, have been producing the traditional garment of South India on power-looms for more than 20 years. The popular wrap-around garment is called “dhoti” in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; the “futah” in Yemen; the “longyi” in Myanmar and the “hoosgunti” in Somalia.
By Yoshiki G.
On Sunday, June 28, New York City hosted the Gay Pride Parade on 5th Avenue.
By William Gomes
A Catholic family of the Dhaka diocese, under the St. Lawrence Catholic Church, was attacked by local Muslims on Oct. 22, 2009, at around 7:30 p.m. Some people
By Samir Alam
The Indian government is paying families who have baby girls, but the statistics don't clarify whether the program signals social change.
By olivia Johns
To most a birth certificate is nothing more than a piece of paper, to others it is a ticket to freedom. Without it a child is legally invisible.
By Saira Aslam
Satya Jeevan Leprosy Society in New Delhi (India) is home to 165 inmates; the number that grows to 205 including children who belong to about seventy families.
By Monica Lafon
In 1998, Dr. James Orbinski was at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in the slum settlement of Kibera outside Nairobi, Kenya. He was part of a team offering treatment for malaria and diarrhea, and was also setting up an HIV prevention program.
By Medill Washington
Older, established international development organizations have suffered because of hits to their investment portfolios. Smaller, start-up nonprofits have had trouble attracting new donors. But across the board, U.S. commitment to foreign aid, both government and private, has become vulnerable to a recession that continues to deepen throughout the country.
By Monica Lafon
Last Tuesday November 19, the nine year-old girl in the picture that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 came to speak at Concordia University.
By Jatin Anand
“…that the worker relates to the product of his labor as an alien object...The alienation of the worker from his product does not only mean that his labor becomes an object, an external entity, but also that it exists outside him, independently, as something alien…” – Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.
By vibhuti singh
Making pottery has for long been in the culture of India, but for some it has become an important source of employment. Uttam Nagar, New Delhi has been the home for many potters for the past 50 years.
By Sasa Milosevic
A Serbian Orthodox priest, Branislav Peranovic, administers unique therapy in treatment of drug addicts.
He cures Serbian junkies with punches.
By Marlo Watanabe
Frontrunner, a new documentary film, tells the story of the first woman to run for president of Afghanistan.
By Ikweri Anariko
Imagine waking up to find the child you love so much is dead......
By William Gomes
The story expresses the crisis of the woman in Bangladesh.
By Miriam Eryan
Expectant mothers can soon find out the gender of their foetus eight weeks into their pregnancy.
By Shanley Knox
Amidst government-driven genocide, experts increasingly fear that the citizens of Sudan will not get the chance to vote in the country's first scheduled democratic election.
By Temple University Japan Campus
This is a video about Koreans living in Japan dealing with daily life and prejudices. It focuses on three individuals, two of which were born and raised in Japan yet still maintain their Korean cultural identity. It was filmed, edited, and subtitled by Keith McCreary,Fuminori Takeshi, and ByungYiel Kang with special thanks from Koh Jung-Suk, Kim Sung-Huyn, and Hwemi Park.
By Sawt Ashabab
In a country where women constitute over half the population, Lebanon still lacks fair political representation of women, even more so than some of its more conservative Arab neighbors.
By Michelle Sohn
Student leaders may change Duke University's policy governing a campus bridge, after homophobic epithets were painted on a rainbow there last fall.
By Chase Zhang
China’s young homosexual pioneers launch the SMILE4GAY online campaign to urge more Chinese people to understand them, which signals the slight cultural shift to homosexual community in the Chinese society.
By Marion Batts
If a word’s connotation changes over time, does that make it all right for everyone to use?
Not when one is referring to the N-word, speakers said at a
By William Gomes
Balasuriyage Premasiri, a 47-year-old farmer, was cycling home from a
friend’s house on 11 November 2009 at about 7pm when he was knocked
down by officers i
By William Gomes
In an open letter Basil Fernando the Director of Hong Kong based
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) addressed Abhisit Vejjajiva the
Prime Minister of Thai
By William Gomes
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information
By Yoshiki G.
I was driving along the highway when I saw three men walking along the side, one with a Tibetan flag and two wearing placards. I stopped to interview them. It turned out the three men began their Walk for Tibet on March 10th this year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of, in their words, "the failed uprising of Tibet." One of the walkers was the nephew of the 14th Dalai Lama.
By Morgan Daniels
At a Washington symposium on peaceful nations, democracy didn't make the list of necessary ingredients.
By Ikweri Anariko
This is in Response to Frida Karu's Article the 21st Century
By Karen Njerenga
Violent incidents could be Kenya's downfall with international investors and tourists.
By Molly Cutler
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law has recently chartered an LGBT student organization called the Lambda Law Alliance.
By Chandrika Deb
social upliftment of street children through music
By Jennifer Penichet
Ernesto Ackerman works with Independent Venezuelan-American Citizens and “Clinica Venamher” to help acclimate Venezuelan immigrants to life in Miami and the United States. Story by Corey Erb and Jennifer Penichet.
By Mohammad Khairul Alam
Stop Gender Discrimination to Prevent HIV
By Mohammad Khairul Alam
AIDS: Sexual Relations with Women & Poverty
By Mohammad Khairul Alam
AIDS: Female sexuality in Pakistan
By Borderzine Archives
After 40 days of searching for his missing father during Argentina’s “dirty war” against dissidents in the 1970’s, Héctor Timerman finally found him in a prison...
By Medill Washington
It is estimated that on any given night that 154,000 veterans are homeless in America according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The US congress is being asked to pass a new Veteran's Bill of Rights, which would increase funding for homeless veterans from $100 million to $200 million.
By Chandrika Deb
Vocational training of under privileged women from slum communities by a non governmental organisation called Adharshila, based in New Delhi, India.
By vibhuti singh
Increase in the involvement of youth in development is slowly changing the face of the world. They are volunteering in NGOs to make difference in the society.
By Abdi Latif Dahir
A video footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows Nigeria "Police executions."
By Sumit Kumar
A New Delhi program helps abused women rebuild their lives and their self-esteem.
By Rashmi Singh
‘Fortune favors bold’ is sometimes not enough when one knows that circumstances in real sense is a hard-hitting job.
By Shruti Pant
Violent protests during Iran's 1979 Revolution signaled the first major turning point in the country's modern history. With the help of technology, current protests may very well usher in the second.
By Chandrani Ray
Women from the war zone narrate chilling tales, seek protection
African women call on international community to provide protection
By Chandrika Deb
Homosexuality is generally considered a taboo subject by both Indian civil society and the government. Public discussion of homosexuality in India has been inhibited by the fact that sexuality in any form is rarely discussed openly. In recent years, however, attitudes towards homosexuality have shifted slightly. In particular, there have been more depictions and discussions of homosexuality in the Indian news media and by Bollywood. On 2 July 2009, a Delhi High Court ruling decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults and judged Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to be conflicting with the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India
By Morgan Daniels
A centralized government in Afghanistan is not the only necessary factor in stability, but cooperation with local governments as well.
By Morgan Daniels
Best-selling author Khaled Hosseini calls for patience in efforts to stabilize his native Afghanistan, citing signs of economic progress despite the conflict.
By William Gomes
A Baptist youth minister and evangelist of the Free Christian Churches of Bangladesh was found seriously wounded in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, on Dh
By vibhuti singh
Students at Jamia University protested against bluelne university which killed a student of Engineering department. The blueline buses have become a menace in Delhi tolling deaths everyday. The city needs a strong implimentation of laws and rules to combact this problem.
By Saiam Hasan
For some women in Delhi's sex trade, the usual strains of the business come with one added challenge -- hiding their work from their families.
By Hanul Woo
On march 26th the South Korea navy corvette Cheonan got sunk by a unknown explotion. From this accident 46 young soldiers were killed.
On 26th 9:30 PM, ther
By Rebecca Leon
Many Virginia Commonwealth University students and faculty members are outraged after a special police intelligence unit drafted a report calling VCU a potential source for terrorism.
By Sarah Jaeger
A pilot course entitled "Telling Immigrant Stories" will concluded at Michigan State University this spring.
By Alix Bryan
Westboro Baptist Church comes to town and counter protesters fill the street. Meanwhile a Senate bill protecting LGBT's was tabled without any attention.
By Robert Scott
The Jewell McFarland Lewis-Fresh Start Women’s Resource Center in Phoenix is dedicated to helping women help themselves.
By Joydeep Hazarika
The 19th of September this year was special for the people of the Batla House area and the university of Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. It was the first ann
By Pradeep S
Last Sunday, hundreds came out on the streets for the gay pride parade in Bangalore. Hundreds more joined members of the gay communities, as supporters.
By Mohd. Reyaz
September 19 brought back gloom in the minds of residents of the Batla House locality in Delhi. One year has passed since the infamous Delhi encounter that was conducted days after serial blasts in the capital.
By Erichson Sihotang
We can see them everyday in the corner of campus; clean-up the garbage, leaves and dust looks like its intimate ‘friend’. Samah is one amongst many cleaning service. I just can imagine how the campus would be like if we don’t have any of them.
By Kevin Hambel
When a man kills a woman in the United States, he can go to jail for manslaughter. But in some countries, when a man kills a woman, he pays a
By Evelyn Ticona-Vergaray
As President Barack Obama named January National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month, a group of West Palm Beach residents raised awareness of the problem in their own back yard.
By Julie Jeon
Photos during a conference on "Global Public Health and the Eradication of Poverty" at the United Nations headquarters on November 4th, 2008.
By ROBERT OTIENO APIYO
Shooting, burning and looting. Borrowing and loitering. Destruction, pain, confrontation and imitation. Unrighteousness, unlikeness
By Muhammad Gharebag
Six days after Israel’s attack on Gaza scripts Iran’s Students objections against attacks are to be continued in different places like inside and outside of university and in front of UN office in capital of Iran.
By SarahMarie Harman
The gender imbalance in China is threatening social stability and raising new concerns about human rights.
By Amanda Cherico
Women and the water crisis. It may seem a strange pairing, but as some non-profit organizations have found, the two are inextricably linked.
By Djamila Ould Khettab
After decades of negotiations, Washington residents have never been so close to be granted a seat at the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Mahreen Chenia
Police reports show that many street kids pose a problem in the Grahamstown area. For this reason schools like Amasango have been established to rehabilitate homeless students in these circumstances.
By Syarifah Nur Aida
Human rights is an essential part of our life to be fulfilled. It can be refer to rights to have a good living, and a good living have a relative standards.
By Morgan Daniels
Increased violence in Iraq is being blamed on interference from neighboring countries.
By Taylor Longley
A Brazilian immigrant, shares her story about overcoming domestic abuse, personal hardships and living in poverty in Miami.
By Ross Holberg
Over half-a-million people were drawn to this historic anti-Iraq War protest in Washington, D.C., which garnered international attention and preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
By Fitria Rahmadianti
Children from poor families in Indonesia often earn extra money on rainy days by renting umbrellas to folks walking by.
By Stevie Easton
Whistleblowers Australia and Wikileaks both promote free speech, ethics, transparency and public accountability, and the protection of whistleblowers.
By Abhirup Bhunia
In India cases of mob justice have posed to be a threat to democracy. Individuals assaulted by vigilantes is a cause of worry. There are mixed reactions to it.
By Akanksha Saxena
Child labor in Delhi, India
By Joshua Newman
By: Olivia Bernardo and Joshua Newman
Elza Habif, 76, emigrated from Turkey in 1952 to marry Alberto, another Turkish Jew already living in Cuba. Eleven years later the couple fled from Castro’s regime to pursue the American dream in Miami.
By Akanksha Saxena
In order to forget, we must learn things. In order to learn, we must be taught. In order to be taught, we must go to school. But what happens when we do not l
By Abhirup Bhunia
Indian girls from the country's northeastern region are forced into prostitution at high rates.
By Dayne Kaufman
They call themselves the “herd of turtles” – three women in their 40s, moving slowly across Richmond with their belongings on their backs.
By NADEEM NAQVI
This articles educates the people of the world towards the greatest tragedy of the world, which has lead to the end of World War II—KARBALA.
By Rebecca Leon
Two Virginia Commonwealth University students spend a day experiencing homelessness.
By Abhirup Bhunia
RAGGING IS, as the past suggests, the growing menace that would eventually intensify furthermore unless the HRD Ministry takes up the issue more seriously.
By Gabriela Campos
By Gabriela Campos and Taylor Longley
By Said BUUNA
An upset Suaad Hagi Mohamud, 31, left, pictured at the airport three weeks after arriving in Nairobi, was deemed to be not the same woman who was photographed on entering the country, right.
By Ana Gomes
Just trying...
By Karl Suministrado
Different lives, different situations --college students on media pornography.
By Josa Marie Salazar
Children who are often exposed to violent TV programs may exhibit aggressive behavior, poor academic performance and poor social relationship.
By Fransiska Lusuba
Depok- Department Education of Health and Behavior Science, Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia (UI), set up Public Health Profession Development Seminar, Friday (14/11), at Auditorium Faculty of Public Health. The theme was ‘Transvestite, A Social Phenomenon’. This event was organized by student of Faculty of Public Health UI who took Public Health Profession Development Seminar as their subject. Students were divided into three groups consists of presenter group, assessor group, and judge.
By Medill Washington
In one U.S. city, government officials are fighting a winning battle against an unlikely breed of drug smuggler - the American teenager.
By Melissa Mistero
Jotaka L. Eaddy, 16 at the time, was outraged after reading an article about a 16-year-old boy being sentenced to death. By 23, she started the largest anti-dea
By Chandrani Ray
As a national recession wears on, more middle-class folks are asking for food, even in places like affluent Montgomery County, Md.
By Medill Washington
Eliane Dunn dreads the day she is forced to return to Liberia, her home country. As the primary breadwinner, this Gaithersburg, Maryland (U.S) mother of three says her family would be financially crippled. The recent economy has contributed to her discomfort.
By Medill Washington
Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing the highest levels of PTSD since the Vietnam War. Some just have trouble sleeping. Some find themselves emotionally numb or easily startled. In the most extreme cases, soldiers have killed themselves -- and fellow soldiers.
By Lulu Dumlao
With the rate of journalists being killed in our country, we are ostensibly upholding the International Federation of Journalists’ label to us—the “most dangerous place for journalists to practice.”
By Jyoti Singh
large disparity among people where rich became richer and poore
By Vincent Nzemeke
The story of a Nigerian lady who in-spite of her physical challenges lives a nornal life.
By Sibongile Mafu
On the 8th of October 2008 Grahamstown was struck by what was reported to be a “mini tornado.” At least 65 people were left homeless. Almost 8 months down t
By Robert Scott
The profile for the average homeless person in Phoenix is a single white male in the age range of 30-years-old to 39-years-old, according to Central Arizona She
By Claire Porter
Human rights activist Norma Cruz speaks about her fight against femicide in Guatemala.
By Sawt Ashabab
In Lebanon, women have succeeded in earning rights and equality to men in different fields from business to management and others, but where do Lebanese women stand in the political field?
By Daniel Ominde
Kenya boasts of a robust, independent and bold media, but this could be easily lost if the new law that seeks to rcontrol broadcast content is implemented.
By Akanksha Saxena
An informed citizen empowered by acts like RTI (Right to Information) can seek accountability in governance. Here is a success story.
By ariba khaliq
Preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games mean more jobs for people in India, but also more inflation, especially in food costs.
By Joydeep Hazarika
The staging of a play on gay rights in Delhi evokes mixed reactions from the progressives as well as the hardliners.
By William Gomes
Mr. Moirangthem Ashnikumar Singh, an environmentalist and Vice-President of Thanga Elfare Committee, Secretary of Keibul Lamjao National Park Forum, was Arbitra
By William Gomes
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained detailed information
about a case of a monk U Gawthita in Burma who has been imprisoned
for alleged anti-go
By Evelyn Ticona-Vergaray
Dear Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell:
Please check your calendar carefully; it’s 2009 not 1909. Also, please refer to your American history classes in
By Abhirup Bhunia
The Right to Education Act, implemented on April 1, ensures free elementary education for every child.
By Jennifer Penichet
It took Melissa Andreina Guerra, 23, a long time to go from watching her brother play soccer in Venezuela to being an American collegiate athlete and now teaching young girls the sport she loves. Story by Corey Erb and Jennifer Penichet.
By Morgan Daniels
tThe National Organization on Disability advocates for the rights of Americans with Disabilities in the workplace.
By Medill Washington
During World War II, the average soldier's load weighed less than 36 pounds. Today, soldiers fighting in Iraq carry nearly double that weight, bearing an average load of more than 63 pounds.
By Bolashade Hanson
The article is about VCU discussion on current racial status and issues in America.
By ariba khaliq
A lot of roads are being constructed in the East Delhi.Apart from commuters' comfort, it sustains a lot of poor families of the labourers working there.
By Mohammad Khairul Alam
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to spread around the world. As per the estimates of United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 39.5 million pe
By Jyoti Singh
Step to bring the justice near your doorstep is next effort by judiciary in India.
By Daniela Dello Joio
It is only recently that the dream of owning a home has become a reality for Haitian immigrants. Non-profit organizations like Little Haiti Housing Association are part of the growing network aimed at improving the lives of the Haitian community in Miami.
By zehra kazmi
The Nagle School offers a ray of hope to girls from slum areas in Old Delhi.
By zehra kazmi
On August 15, 2009 Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan was detained at a US airport for questioning--- and a controversial story was born on spot. When questioned about the incident, Khan said, “I was really hassled -perhaps because of my name being Khan”.
By Jessica LeBlanc
London -- Success. Independence. Strength. These topics were among those discussed at the “Women in the Middle East-Beacon of Change” event.
By Bryan Nolde
The Richmond area has many groups working to help the homeless: Some serve meals, others offer shelter and a number provide health care or counseling.
By William Green
So much time and money spent in courts issuing orders but not one city or the state has found these people a place to live.
By Chandrika Deb
Domestic violence against women in India and the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act
By Akanksha Saxena
Rehabilitation initiatives at Juvenile home in Delhi
By Corey Erb
The relationship between Cuba and Venezuela has become increasingly important for many Venezuelan students in South Florida with family still living in their home country. Story by Corey Erb and Jennifer Penichet.
By Erika Baggs
Greek life at ASU is pushing through racial barriers in a positive direction.
By Corey Erb
Students and young adults from Miami share their thoughts on Cuba-Venezuela relations. Video by Corey Erb and Jennifer Penichet.
By Gabriela Campos
By Gabriela Campos and Taylor Longley
By Min Cheng
May 11th Beijing, an awful conflict breaks out in Peking University. It involves some human rights, morality and ethics problem.
In short, now even China's university is too noisy to teach and study.
By Daniela Dello Joio
When Yvrose Douge moved with her family from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Miami 20 years ago, she left her husband almost as soon as they arrived in the United Sta
By Chandrani Ray
A sixth grader from a remote village in Andhra Pradesh says she wants to end segregation in her town and to spread a message of equality.
By QIAO CONGRUI
On Aril 7, the second instance opened for Li, Ruirui, the 21-year-old rape victim who was assaulted after being ushered into a hotel by her hometown officials .
By Jyoti Singh
Sometimes poverty and illiteracy brings out a ray of hope for those who don't want to beg throughout their life.
By Jyoti Singh
"Happiness is not something you have in your hand.It is something you carry in your heart".
By Shruti Pant
While many hailed President Obama’s speech in Ghana, not everyone celebrated.
By Kati Knight
On Tuesday through Thursday, Feb. 23-25th, Southeastern Students for Life, also known as Lions for Life, will be honoring all those who have been unjustly aborted.
By Alexandra Hedrick
Student Press Law Center executive director, Frank LoMonte speaks with journalism about reporter's rights
By Parista Yuthamanop
A boy from Northeastern Thailand plays bamboo organ for money during weekends at Chatuchak market.
By Robyn McCormick
Robyn (camera) and Anesu (reporter) went to Andrew Moyake School in Grahamstown to investigate the school that Galela Amanzi (Xhosa for "Pour the Water") is helping. The school is in Fingo in Grahamstown, South Africa, and is drastically underprivileged, with so little water that the toilets have been closed and the children are forced to relieve themselves on a pavement outside next to their playing field. There have been many water cuts in Grahamstown over the past few years, which have affected all the residents, but, as is often the case, those in poorer areas, like Grahamstown’s townships, bear the brunt of the shortage.
By Sawt Ashabab
Lebanon is famous for its religious diversity, with 18 sects living within its 10,425 km². However, the country's native Jewish community is witnessing a decline that might prove terminal.
By Lescha Mayseeta
Indonesian Street Children Organization (ISCO) held an event that gathers around 800 Indonesian street children from 16 districts of Jakarta.
By William Gomes
I woke up on Jan. 28 and was shocked to read the news of the execution of five former army officers - Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Sultan Shahria
By Shruti Pant
Recent events paint a grim picture of Afghanistan and the country’s struggle for rights. But one man's story still serves as a beacon of hope.
By SarahMarie Harman
Mental illness is taking a prominent place on the already long list of problems facing the nation's correctional facilities.
By Ryan Foray
Homelessness is on the rise in the nation. By looking at the this story, an organization is taking a total different look at how they want to fight these issues.
By Alix Bryan
An increase in hate crimes against sexual orientation can be proven, something many organizations argue can not.
By Jessica Finical
Arizona is known to have some of the most intensely strict laws and punishments pertaining to drinking and driving.
