The US was expected to begin flying Burundian peacekeepers into the Central African Republic today. Photographer Marcus Bleasdale and Human Rights Watch’s Peter Bouckaert were also on the ground in the war-torn country …
Médecins Sans Frontières wrote an open letter to the UN humanitarian system expressing its “deep concern about the unacceptable performance" in the Central African Republic.
In the last few decades many people living in liberal democracies have come to see certain kinds of diversity as a threat to freedom. A new report from Open Society Foundations finds that, if certain principles are respected, diversity can coexist with and even contribute to freedom.
For the ruling Chinese Communist Party, observing Nelson Mandela’s death is a fraught exercise in verbal contortions to distance him from China’s own imprisoned Nobel laureate and advocate for peaceful social change: the writer Liu Xiaobo.
Today, a bill was introduced into the US Congress to support family leave – so a difficult pregnancy or caring for a sick parent doesn’t mean you lose your job. Tell your Congress person that you want them to support the bill.
It was more than a year ago when officers in Cambodia forced Smonh into the back of a large truck. They drove him to Orgkas Khnom (“My Chance”), which is supposedly a place for people dependent on drugs to receive treatment. There, he was tortured until he no longer felt human.
Ten western European countries have legalized same-sex marriage. Germany hasn’t made this list.
