My hope is that we spend less time criticizing the prophets, the one who stands in the arena; but rather we let our own prophetic voices motivate us to do a bit more, each and every day.
Aggie R. Hoffman | Posted 05.04.2012
The Dream Act, of bi-partisan interest, focuses on students who were brought to the U.S. as children, some as infants, by parents who entered the U.S. without inspection or remained unlawfully after their period of lawful admission expired.
Amy Schrier | Posted 05.02.2012
For some time I had been ruminating on the growing need for a humanitarian media brand, a source of content, videos, articles, photography and community that would serve as a platform for dialogue among the growing number of people interested in social action.
Nikolas Katsimpras | Posted 04.18.2012
Afterwards we forget all about it, like we do after throwing a dollar in a homeless person's cup, walking away with pride, having temporarily silenced our inner voice. No questions are asked if the donated money finally reaches what it is meant for and in what way.
Louis Belanger | Posted 04.07.2012
The international humanitarian response system will fail to cope with the expected rise in the number of people exposed to crises unless there are more resources closer to where disasters happen and there is more investment in preventing and reducing the risk of disasters.
Samuel Witten | Posted 02.09.2012
Refugees are victims of circumstances they did not create and cannot control. And women, often unaccompanied by men, caring for young children, and lacking in job skills and opportunities, generally have the most difficult time.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 02.01.2012
Violence against women and girls reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, and security of its survivors.
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 01.17.2012
Here in Karama, the Tubeho Association, which consists of 76 women and 34 men all afflicted with HIV, decided on honey as not only a logical high-return commodity indigenous to the fertile hills of Southeast Rwanda.
William Brindley | Posted 01.08.2012
Once a year, technology leaders from more than 30 of the world's leading international NGOs convene for a week with one main purpose: to share.
Jim Wallis | Posted 12.27.2011
The initial feelings that rushed over me after hearing the announcement that we're pulling out of Iraq were of deep relief. But then they turned to deep sadness over the terrible cost of a war that was always wrong: intellectually, politically, strategically and, above all, morally.
Margaret Aguirre | Posted 11.09.2011
I was in Ethiopia during the "global food crisis" in 2008, and witnessed a tremendous amount of starvation, pain and suffering. And yet, that crisis was not nearly as severe as what's happening today.
Sarah Costa | Posted 10.31.2011
While we have been hearing news stories about the desperate need for food, water and basic health care in the Horn of Africa, we have heard little about the appalling sexual violence women and girls face there every day.
Elizabeth Wright | Posted 10.16.2011
In Kenya's capital city of Nairobi, two-thirds of the population live far below the poverty line in sprawling urban slums. Hunger is an everyday reality here.
Christopher McKnight Nichols | Posted 08.13.2011
Should we exert force abroad for the national interest? (And how do we define national interest?) When and where should we use force for a humanitarian cause? Or should the U.S. withdraw from the international theater to focus on challenges at home?
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 07.31.2011
The key may be in Haiti's time-tested agricultural or faming tradition and expertise. Workers are ready to work and the lucky ones have cooperatives led by people who care about their employees' well-being.
Don Kraus | Posted 06.18.2011
Once democratic elections are held in Libya, the nation can finally move forward and look to a future where leaders are accountable to the people.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.14.2011
There are places on this planet where the Flip camera can change a life.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011
Many are calling it "Colombias' Katrina". 6 months of constant rain leading up to a record 13 times more rainfall than the previous record, have cause...
Chris Herlinger | Posted 05.25.2011
At this time of year, our world can seem very far indeed from Pakistan's harsh realities. I had hoped that the news from Pakistan would be, at best, mixed. But the news remains tough and largely discomforting.
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011
The lackluster donor response in Pakistan shows how bitterness over a failing war can displace humanitarian impulse -- especially when the victims share the religion of the "terrorist threats" that have replaced them in headlines.
Lauren Elyse Matison | Posted 05.25.2011
Consider these 13 green gifts that are good for the environment and give back to local economies around the globe.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Even before the economic collapse of 2008, architects -- and young architects in particular -- had turned away from designing splashy new icons and to...
Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011
The Peace Corps remains a shining example of what US foreign policy might be. It is far more important than the military model in addressing the overwhelming crises that will give birth to violence in our future.
Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011
What's your best it's-a-small-world story?
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 05.25.2011
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The aging man in mud-splattered, frayed clothes has barely lowered his body onto the sidewalk when the money starts piling ...
Lee Bycel | Posted 05.22.2012