Thailand, One Week After the Bombings. Is Another Free Speech Crackdown Coming?One week ago, a bomb killed 20 people at a busy shrine in the center of Bangkok. Speculations about possible...
“We are hated, and our suffering and death brings joy to people.” A Remarkable Meeting on LGBT Violence at the Security Council“Adnan” is a gay Iraqi. He’s suffered beatings and humiliation throughout his adult life. But when ISIS swept through his...
Violence Against Women is the Dark Underbelly of The USA’s Migrant Detention SystemDonald Trump is fond of ascribing violence in American cities to immigrants. He has even gone so far as to...
5 Humanity-Affirming Times Europeans Have Opened Their Doors, And Hearts, to Refugees“Hordes. Marauding. Floods. Swarms. Boat People”. An observer seeing photos of desperate Syrians arriving on the beaches of southern Greece might...
Is Kazakhstan’s Olympic Loss A Win for Human Rights?On July 31st the city of Almaty, in eastern Kazakhstan, quietly mourned. Across the border in China, Beijing celebrated: earlier...
Violence Against Women Mars US Immigration Detention CentersThey came fleeing violence, but just found more of it. Central American women, detained in Texas last year, alleged sexual...
UNESCO is Fighting a Different Kind of Culture WarIn war, there are casualties. Beyond the obvious human toll of people killed, injured and displaced, increasingly cultural heritage is...
East Asians Attitudes Toward LGBT Rights are Rapidly Shifting. But Probably Not Fast Enough Is anal sex a human right? On the day of South Korea’s LGBT pride parade on June 28, Evangelical...
This is What Inequality Looks Like in South Africa’s Most Prestigious University TownGrahamstown is the picture perfect sleepy town. I live on top of one of its many hills. At night, I can...
