Monthly Archive: February 2015
Each year about 1500 acid attack cases are reported around the world. According to the UK-based Acid Survivors Trust International, the actual figure could be much higher because many victims are reluctant to come...
This week President Barack Obama unveiled his $4 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2016. And while the president’s blueprint includes many provisions that aim to modify or expand existing policies, Obama has also...
Last September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill mandating that condoms be available in all of the state’s 34 adult prisons. California is only the second state, after Vermont, to provide condoms to...
In Turkey, a European freelance journalist faces prison following an indictment that she spread pro-militant Kurdish propaganda over social media. The case is raising alarm bells at it’s the first time Turkey has targeted...
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio led a hearing today examining the proposed changes to U.S.- Cuba relations. The hearing comes just days after a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to lift the...
In Zimbabwe, depending on the source and their definition of unemployment, estimates of the jobless rate in the country range as high as 95 percent. With a deteriorating economy, there’s no relief in sight....