Aung San Suu Kyi, a pro-democracy leader in Burma has been released by the Burmese government, after 15 plus years of house arrest. She serves as a hero to the Burmese community, her party, as well as the remaining 2,200 political prisoners in the country.
The release came a week after...
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Human Rights
Aung San Suu Kyi: A leader of democratic peace is freed
Never Turn Your Head
I recently found out that my nine-year-old niece has to do current event presentations once a week in front of her classroom. This past week she dressed up as a Polish boy, wore the Star of David on her coat, and recited the famous poem by Peter Fischl, “To the Little Polish Boy Standing...
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Save Darfur Coalition: Model of an effective network
So, I had to read this report by the Save Darfur Coalition for my class this week, Issues in Humanitarian Assistance and Intervention, and although I was already familiar with the Save Darfur Coalition (SDC) I had never considered it through the lens of network theory and in terms of...
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Reconstructing the Security Paradigm
What does the security of another state have to do with the security of United States? Increasingly think tanks, policymakers, and academics alike are recognizing the power of “soft power” in developing societies. Or rather, they are recognizing that there is a link between the economic development and empowerment of a society and its...
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Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Microfinance
Yesterday the CGA had the honor of having Roshaneh Zafar, founder and managing director of Kashf Foundation, come talk to us about microfinance. Zafar, a former World Bank employee, discussed the origins of her organization. At the start of her career, Zafar worked in the Water and Sanitation department of the World Bank, and...
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Inside the Trade for Human Flesh
A review of the book Slave Hunter by Rada Ghemigian
Wasn’t slavery abolished? Actually, no. In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any point in our history. Slave Hunter by Aaron Cohen and Christine Buckley (New York, NY: Simon Schuster, Inc., 2009) looks at the eye-opening truth behind human...
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Murder in the Name of Honor – Rana Husseini
Book Discussion of Murder in the Name of Honour by Rana Husseini (Winter 2009/2010, at the Soros Foundation in New York City). Rana Husseini is a senior reporter at the Jordan Times.
Honor killing is an international phenomena happening mainly in impoverished and uneducated areas. In most of the cases, the crime of honor killing...
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Yemen: The Human Rights Situation
Human Rights violations:
A recent report by Yemeni human rights organizations presented to the United Nations Committee Against Torture reveals serious human rights violations by the Yemeni National Security Agency against Yemeni jurists and human rights activists. Moreover, Amnesty International recently reported police brutality and torture of detainees held in connection with politically motivated...
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LGBT Rights Worldwide – Still a Steep Climb
One of the more nail-biting voter decisions to come out of this past Tuesday’s elections here in the United States was the repeal of a law allowing same-sex marriages in the state of Maine. The 53% or so who voted to strike down the law made Maine the 31st state in the U.S. to...
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HIV-Positive Soon Free to Enter U.S.
President Obama announced today that he would lift the 22-year-old ban restricting HIV-positive people from entering the United States. This is great news for an old, fear-motivated piece of legislation that’s been in effect for far too long.
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