Monthly Archive: May 2014
In the central Philippines, indigenous groups make up about 10 per cent of the population. In recent decades, their unique way of life has been largely eroded by western influences, their native lands increasingly...
Mass abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls prompts international outrage New bill addresses immigration detention conditions, advocates seek end of “bed quota” São Paulo sweatshops trap Bolivians seeking jobs in Brazil Israel increasingly kills civilians in...
The two major Palestinian political parties, Hamas and Fatah, recently reached a reconciliation agreement, under which they agree to set up a unity government for both Gaza and the West Bank. The new government...
Advocates for immigration reform continue to call for presidential action to halt deportations. Undocumented mothers from around the country came to Washington DC ahead of Mothers’ Day to ask for the expansion of deferred...
Students in many states have always used a freshly sharpened #2 pencil to bubble in their answers on a yearly battery of tests. But this Spring, in a nation-wide overhaul of public school standardized...
In Thailand, an ethnic Karen activist went missing, just as he was preparing a legal case against the chief of the national park and national park department. The ethnic Karen are hill tribe farmers,...
International outrage continues to grow, as do international efforts to help locate more than 230 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped weeks ago by terrorist group Boko Haram. The militant Islamist sect has accepted responsibility for the...
The federal government released the National Climate Assessment report today, a comprehensive look at the country’s current and future climate challenges. The wide ranging study includes work by more than 300 experts and over...
Over the past decade, economic growth in Brazil has attracted thousands of poor Bolivian immigrants to work in the textile sector of São Paulo; South America’s wealthiest city. Many of those who lack proper...
A human rights documentary film festival was shut down by government authorities in Russia today, over what organizers say is censorship of controversial content. Ekaterina Danilova reports from Saint Petersburg. Download The May 32nd...