Three weeks ago, over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted from their secondary school in Borno state by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. The girls were taken at gunpoint and forced into the dark...
As a veteran protestor in the US and abroad who started out as a pacifist and later marched with the Black Blok and other groups that argue violence is sometimes necessary in defense of our freedoms,...
The United States was riveted on Tuesday by an execution gone horribly, horribly wrong in Oklahoma, a state that’s already been in the news for botched executions as well as shady sourcing for the...
Chronic illnesses and their symptoms may be very different from one another, but if there's one thing that people who have chronic illness, pain, and/or fatigue can agree on, it's that being sick all...
Farmworker justice may just be going national again this year in the United States, after years of coordinated activism, lobbying, and negotiations. For that, we have the Coalition of Immokalee...
In (coastal) America the line between performance art and pornography has long been walked by a plethora of female provocateurs, from Annie Sprinkle right up to Sasha Grey. So in this sense Femen –...
International media are abuzz with the recent news out of Australia, where Scottish-Australian Norrie sued for the right to select “non-specific” as a sex option on her (Norrie’s been...
This week has brought a halt to a human rights inquiry concerning the detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, one of the off-shore facilities in which asylum seekers to Australia are...
Last week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation highlighted the circumstances of Western Australia resident Rosie Anne Fulton, who has been incarcerated without being convicted of a crime or...
Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleeza Rice, and the Girl Scouts have joined together in a campaign to ‘ban bossy,’ and they’ve been joined by a growing number of other high-powered women and women’s...
