How Europe is Making the Refugee Crisis Even WorseAs Greece continues to capture headlines over the most recent economic bailout and its potential to still derail the Eurozone,...
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...
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...
Meet a 2015er: Kristie HolmesThis is the tenth installment of our “Meet A 2015-er” series that profiles the women and men who are helping...
The Last-Ditch South Sudan Peace Talks Are On the Brink of CollapseLeaders met in Addis Ababa yesterday in a last ditch effort to bring peace to South Sudan after 18 months...
One of the Most Dangerous Volcanos in the World is Threatening to Blow its TopThe Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador is considered one of the world’s most dangerous. Its peak looms over the capitol, Quito and...
Ebola is Officially on the Ropes in Sierra LeoneThe World Health Organization announced a big milestone today: for the first time in over a year, the country at...
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...