Post Tagged with: "human rights"

By Melissa Delgado Samudra’s Story (TW: rape, abuse) It’s raining again. It is always raining, but by now we are used to it. The smell of wet earth invades my […]

Trafficking for sexual exploitation is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. The illegal industry nets $99 billion each year and is closely linked to other organized criminal activity such […]

It’s incredibly depressing to read about such denigration of teen girls happening in 2017. Yes, we are well aware that gender inequality and discrimination is rampant in a number of […]

By Ash Stevens The issue of mass incarceration in the US is well documented and is being talked about a lot more in political and social justice discussions. By now, […]

We recently came across an interesting article about a very important and timely issue. Global retailer H&M announced their H&M Foundation has partnered with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, to […]

We’ve all heard the saying “actions speak louder than words”. We absolutely believe this, but also, in equal measure, that words matter greatly. What we teach our children has the […]

In 1995 at the World Conference on Women in Beijing, Hillary Clinton gave her famous speech which has been quoted time and time again: “Human rights are women’s rights, and […]

Female Genital Mutilation is one of the most horrific crimes against a human body, and while it is something that definitely needs to be stopped, it won’t just take legislation […]

This year’s Miss Tibet proceedings were rather short. You see, originally a total of 8 girls applied, but only 5 girls confirmed, then 4 withdraw for various reasons. That left […]

After the collapse of the Rana Plaza Bangladesh garment factory in April 2013, the issue of slave labor has become more prominent. A year on, and there are still some […]