Forced Motherhood: Are Abortion Laws A Denial Of Human Rights?
Rape and pregnancy are typically not the concerns of children, or so we would hope. Yet, these are precisely issues faced by young girls across the globe, including a 10-year-old Senegalese girl who has been denied an abortion ...
Media Workers & Human Rights Activists Battle Against Zimbabwean Threats to Freedom of Expression
Many of us let out a sigh of relief when Owen Gagare and Dumisani Muleya – from the Zimbabwe Independent – were released following their arrest for publishing an article which had exposed secret relations between Zimbab...
Daily News Roundup – 27 June 2012
Europe EU summit to discuss direct recapitalisation of Spanish banks Spain’s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said today that direct recapitalisation of Spain’s banks using EU bailout funds will be discussed at the m...
Election Fatigue: Why Talk Of 2016 Needs To Stop
There is an air of inevitability surrounding a second bid for the White House from Hillary Clinton. In her Twitter bio, she reels off her accomplishments as “First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, US Senator...
A Brutal Account of the Syrian Civil War (Warning: Graphic Content)
On Oct. 28, 2012, journalist Olly Lambert was filming an interview with a Syrian rebel leader in the village of al-Bara for FRONTLINE, a government airstrike hit barely 300 meters from where he was filming. Keeping the cameras ...
War Tourism in Sri Lanka
Since the end of its civil war in 2009, Sri Lanka has been criticised for its handling of thousands of Tamils displaced during the conflict and has faced a barrage of war crimes accusations. Now the government has laid out pla...
