Tag: human rights
Thousands of ocean fishing boats could be using forced labor –...
Gavin McDonald, University of California Santa Barbara
Fishing on the high seas is a bit of a mystery, economically speaking. These areas of open ocean...
The Clean Network on Human Rights and Environment
The Clean Network on Human Rights and Environment
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Saudi women are fighting for their freedom – and their hard-won...
Alainna Liloia, University of Arizona
Saudi women will soon be allowed to obtain passports and travel without the permission of a male relative.
This new regulation,...
How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into...
Eleonora Mattiacci, Amherst College
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised to resign by the end of the month. That announcement came after thousands of Algerians...
Transgender Americans still face workplace discrimination despite some progress and support...
George B. Cunningham, Texas A&M University
Activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith founded Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20 to honor the memory of those...
Images of suffering can bring about change – but are they...
Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In a series of provocative photographs, poor children in India...
Can you be Christian and support the death penalty?
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
Pope Francis has declared the death penalty “inadmissible.” This means that the death penalty should not be used...
Deported twice, man struggles to help his family survive
Oscar Gil-Garcia, Binghamton University, State University of New York
For more than a decade, I documented one man’s deportation, the impact on his family and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
