When War Shatters Childhoods
Around one billion children in the world live in conflict-affected areas, according to the European Union. As conflict begins, their childhoods disappear. Suddenly they live at risk of losing their education, their homes and th...
The death of meaning in American rhetoric
The actual role of the Bill of Rights relative to American political activity is often a misconceived concept in contemporary thought. One might find an observer commenting, “The government gives me the right of free speech...
Yoga and the Quest for a European Future
On April 18th 1951, six European nations signed the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in order to resolve the thorny German Question. By putting the European coal and steel production under a si...
Worst 5 Human Rights Violations Of 2014
Today marks World Human Rights Day. Unfortunately, the term “human rights” is often associated with the violation of human rights, rather than the advancement of it. Although 2014 has seen many successes in variou...
Syrian Revolution: The Final Chapter
March of 2011 marked the beginning of the Syrian revolution. The struggle that rages on as I write this article has seen the lives of at least 60, 000 Syrians claimed by the regimes’ war machine. This astonishingly high figur...
WATCH: What Happens to Children After They’ve Been Rescued From Human Trafficking?
The international trade in children is perhaps the darkest aspect to human trafficking. According to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, “children are trafficked for forced labour, domestic wo...
