Monthly Archive: April 2015
Students at Harvard and Yale have joined other schools around the country in the past week as they step up their push for divestment of fossil fuel stocks from their universities’ multi-billion dollar endowment...
Fast food workers, home health care assistants, adjunct professors and many other types of low-wage workers walked off the job today across the United States to call for an hourly minimum wage hike to...
As millions of U.S. taxpayers scramble to finish their 2014 income tax returns and shoulder their tax responsibilities, the U.S. House of Representatives takes up repealing the estate tax, thereby reducing tax bills for...
Two hundred and nineteen still-missing school girls who were abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram in northeastern are being remembered across Nigeria and in several cities around the world as they mark their...
For many years, residents of the tiny coastal enclave of the Gaza Strip have been largely segregated from the rest of the world. An Israeli-imposed lock down on the territory prevents Gazans from freely...
An Egyptian court has upheld the death sentences of 14 people and handed down life sentences to 36 others, including an American citizen. Dual Egyptian-American citizen Mohamed Soltan participated in sit-ins in Cairo in...
In Zimbabwe, people living with HIV/AIDS have launched a program to monitor the health care they receive in order to trace the gaps, shortcomings and loopholes in access and availability to services. Government records...
Video evidence of police shooting in South Carolina revives debate over body cameras Somali refugees in Kenya brace for backlash after Garissa attack Afghan refugees repatriated from Pakistan after deadly Peshawar school attack Thailand’s...
Many people in the United States had never heard of hedge funds before the housing market crash of 2008 and subsequent financial crisis. Hedge fund managers grew rich while thousands of people lost their...
Forced marriages remain an ongoing concern in Cameroon. According to figures from the the country’s Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, at least 41 percent of Cameroonian teenage girls are forced into marriage,...