Hungary’s tumultuous political sphere seems like a never ending topic for democracy advocates. Right after the governing party’s much criticised actions (alterations in the country’s constitution, forced retirements and o...
Every day people climb dangerously deep into the ground to support themselves as coal miners. The film Coal Boy tells the story of a boy in the Jaintia Hills in northeast India who was born into this fate. Most people can never...
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...
Terrorism is more than a Middle Eastern issue. Islamic terrorism is more than a Middle Eastern issue. The prominence of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and other affiliate organizations in the public consciousness often obscures...
Previously: The Logic of Our Sex Laws, Part 1: An Overview The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), part of the International Prostitutes Collective, has been campaigning for the decriminalisation of prostitution, and for...
The worldwide condemnation of Russia’s recent bill banning gay “propaganda” has now sparked debate among athletes. Among calls for boycott of the 2014 Olympics that are to be held in Russia, the 14th World Championshi...
Bhoomi (then Kumudu) and I studied together at an all-boys college in Colombo. We weren’t friends really, he was one year senior to me: but I knew of him (everyone did). While we practiced for the Shakespeare Drama Competiti...
China has detained prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on the charge of “causing a disturbance,” what is seen as an attempt to deter activists from marking the upcoming 25th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy ...