Street harassment is a global issue which affects many people around the world in both developed and developing countries. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh has produced an art series called Stop Telling Women To Smile which portrays th...
The unprecedented decision of China’s state-run television network to broadcast live the final moments of a Burmese drug lord just before his execution has not only sparked outrage in Myanmar but has also triggered deba...
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah’s death ends a fourteen-and-a-half year reign that saw marginal policy changes, particularly of those which relate to human rights.
A new law in Afghanistan might allow the perpetrators of domestic violence, honour killings and forced marriages to commit these crimes without any consequences – simply because they are related to the victim. The controv...
The by-election victory of Aung San Suu Kyi last year promised much hope for Burma. Since then, and with pressure from the international community, the government of Thein Sein has been slowly forthcoming with reforms. However,...
Dictatorships throughout the Arab world were quashed under the force of the revolutionaries that fought against them. The unrest gained momentum as more countries followed in Tunisia’s wake; people projected their voices...
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...
How does it feel to be a refugee? For most of the “Western” world, that’s always going to be an unanswerable question. As unstable as the European and American economies and governments may get, the chances of war breakin...
Texas is the only state in America without zoning laws. Once oil was discovered in East Texas in the late 1800′s, the city of Houston became a prized location for entrepreneurs and corporations. The oil boom can be directly l...