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Jordan Struggles To Help Syrian Refugees

Credit: t i g/ flickr By Selah Hennessy KARAK, JORDAN — Jordan is giving shelter to more than 400,000 Syrians who have fled two years conflict in their country, and the number grows every day. In...

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Women And Men As Partners: Building Relationships To Combat Gender-Based...

  By Alexis Marek and Kelly Donovan In November 2012, the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, located in South Amherst, MA, and Men’s Resources International collaborated with partners from Rwanda,...

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Women Take The Stage Against Taliban

Credit: Wootang01/ flickr   By Ashfaq Yusufzai The Taliban may have placed a ban on theatre, but women in Pakistan’s northern provinces won’t allow the threat of the militants’ reprisals to keep them...

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Colombian Coast Mobilizes To Demand Rights For Holistic Reparations

Credit: Eat your greens!/ flickr   By Anna Vogt For the leaders of over 30 communities in Colombia’s Montes de Maria region, a nonviolent march is the only way to build sustainable, holistic...

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Anti-Drone Movement Takes Flight

Credit: Truthout.org/ flickr   By Eric Stoner With drones seemingly more in the public’s conscience than ever, anti-drone activists have just launched their most ambitious campaign to date. Called the...

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Stalemate In Western Sahara Frustrates Organizers

Credit: Magharebia/ flickr   By Naomi Dann Elghalia sat cross-legged on the floor of her living room, fanning the small bed of charcoals until they glowed with an inner red light. She placed the metal...

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Advocates Begin To Tackle India’s Child Rape Problem

Credit: ramesh_lalwani/ flickr   By Aarti Betigeri In the space of just 13 days last month, three separate reports of horrific rapes on young children brought widespread rage and condemnation in India,...

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Two Portraits Of Post-Revolutionary Life In Iran

Credit: Örlygur Hnefill/ flickr   By Maryam Elika Ansari In recent years, there has been a surge in Iranian women’s diaspora writing about life in post-revolutionary Iran. I will draw your attention to...

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Ready For More Interventions In Africa? Obama Is

Photo: Tech. Sgt. Roy Santana/ Flickr By Peter Dörrie While most of the coverage of the recent reshuffle of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team has been focused on how it will (or won’t)...

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Nutrition For Growth Summit: Ending Malnutrition Or Neo-Colonialism?

Photo: EU humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection/ Flickr By Rom Bhandari Before the latest G8 meeting at the start of June, several summits aimed at addressing the prevalence of malnutrition were held...

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