As Europe struggles to handle the influx of refugees from Syria, it’s worth looking at the background of conflict, and the U.N.’s published codes for dealing with asylum-seekers.
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Karachi’s ‘water mafia’ exacerbates drought crisis
As Pakistan suffers under a widespread drought, underground cartels that are siphoning water to sell it for huge profits on the black market have a stranglehold on nature’s most precious resource.
Congo bans film on renowned rape trauma doctor
A decision to forbid showings of a documentary chronicling the work of Dr. Denis Mukwege illustrates a deep degree of willful denial about the high incidence of brutal sexual assault that exists in the “rape capital of the world.”
FEATURE: Consent, rape, and the American school system
The trial of Owen Labrie has sparked questions around the U.S.’s lacking sex education system, and the bigger issue of sexual assault among students.