It’s been about three months since the devastating earthquake in Haiti killed over 200,000 people and left a million homeless. The catastrophic problems facing the nation in the wake of the tragedy have been well-documented in the media. One incident that garnered a lot of attention was the arrest of a group of US missionaries [...]
The Cambodian government is placing a temporary freeze on marriages between Cambodian women and South Korean men. The goal of the policy, announced last weekend, is to block the practice of “matchmakers” or brokers who lure women into paying to be married off to men in South Korea. The ban comes after a [...]
Thanks to Clint Eastwood’s most recent film, Invictus, millions of people around the world – many of whom, both in and outside of South Africa, were previously unaware of and/or indifferent to the 1995 Rugby World Cup – now know the story of how Nelson Mandela harnessed the universal language of sport to preach transformation [...]
The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Situation Report is a monthly column highlighting SRHR issues internationally. In honor of World AIDS Day, December 1st, this month’s column will focus on Women and HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Halting the spread of HIV/AIDS is part of Millennium Development Goal 6, linked with “malaria and other diseases.” The major international [...]
Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction Edited by Raminder Kaur and William Mazzarella
Indiana University Press
There is no use in burying the head of an ostrich in censorship and imagining the enemy knows nothing of what we are doing. — S.C. Lind
Censorship in South Asia dissects the history and socio-political dynamics of [...]
Women forced into sex slavery in Japan during WWII, nicknamed “comfort women”, are still seeking an official apology from the Japanese government. These now elderly women, mostly from North and South Korea, are hoping for the official apology they have deserved for decades. It is estimated that up to 200,000 were forced into sexual [...]
“My name is Baida Abdul Karim al-Shammari, and I am from New Baquba near the general hospital. I am one of eight children; five were killed. The police raided our home. It was a half-hour before dawn during Ramadan. The Americans were with them.”
These are the words of a would-be suicide bomber; one of 16 [...]
Pervs. Creeps. Pedophiles.
These were some of the words being used in the news to describe Californian sex offenders Ronald Boyajian, 49, Erik Peeters, 41, and Jack Sporich, 75 as they were being arraigned last month. The three men were arrested separately in February for different reasons. Boyajian’s traveled to Vietnam via Cambodia last year and [...]
Celebrating International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s 150th anniversary, Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Frontlines is a chapter in a series of events created by the ICRC as part of a global humanitarian campaign.
The exhibition is aimed at instilling a deeper understanding of the impact of war in over eight countries from [...]
Global Feminism in the News is a monthly column discussing recurring themes in international news stories concerning women. This month we will discuss women and clothing.
This month saw fashion week in cities like London, Milan and New York, where I live. No, this post will not be about this season’s runway shows. Sometimes I wish [...]
