Advocates of the conflict mineral approach would be far more credible if they had ever called for any kind of pressure whatsoever on mining companies that are directly involved in fueling the conflict.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 12.12.2009 | Living
Marriage is not for everyone, and people who want to stay single should not be targeted with singlism because of it.
Halle Tecco | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Movember is an international month-long "celebration" of the mustache, where men grow out their whiskers to raise money and awareness of major health issues affecting their gender.
Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
The latest Autism-related controversy stems from a video, "I Am Autism," created for Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism advocacy group, report...
Saul Garlick | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
What is the ideal role of the U.S. Government in connecting with rural, poor African communities? Does the U.S. Foreign Service have a responsibility to American citizens to know what is going on in the field?
Kari Stoever | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Thanks to a partnership between the Miss Universe Organization and the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Miss Universe will frequently be sharing headlines with worms.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
In briefs, the battle lines have been drawn. On the one hand is the government, endorsing Bush-era policies. And for the Uighurs, there is a Boston-based attorney and his team.
Posted 10.09.2009 | Impact
Nearly 1,000,000 people in Los Angeles go hungry -- right now, as of this moment. That's one out of eight Angelenos who don't have access to proper nu...
Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
Rule of law is the lynchpin to long-term stability in Afghanistan. Yet the military's tradition of steering clear of law enforcement activities, especially evidence-gathering responsibilities, is weakening the justice system.
Rebecca R. Friedman | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
The Obama foreign policy era officially began last week in Geneva. Now that the transition is fully over, the international community will find out whether President Obama can deliver on his commitments.
Joseph Sebarenzi | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
For Rwanda to thrive, economic performance, for which President Kagame deserves credit, must be coupled with political reconciliation and strong democratic institutions.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
Do we have the necessary sobriety, humbleness and wisdom in our current times in Washington to weigh appropriately our next moves on Afghanistan?
Dr. Barbara Kurshan | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
In the after hours, or time between coffee and the opening of your Sunday morning paper, why not take a few moments to further explore your lifelong interest in subjects like architecture or art?
Jamil Dakwar | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
Both U.S. standing in the world as well as global efforts to protect and enforce human rights will be greatly undermined if documented war crimes committed by Israel and Palestinian armed groups continue to be ignored.
Steven L. Spiegel | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
In his speech to the UN General Assembly, President Obama provided the direction for a new approach to foreign affairs, calling for regional initiatives with multilateral participation. We have an idea for just such an initiative.
Stephen Macfarlane | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
A burgeoning international interest in the war crimes tribunal of Kaing Guek Eav (aka Duch, who ran Tuol Sleng and other camps like personal fiefdoms) forces attention back to the photographs.
Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
The number of maternal deaths has remained virtually unchanged for the past two decades. This is unconscionable, and it's why the Group of Eight leaders recently agreed that the world must do more.
Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
This article was originally written by Karen Murphy and posted on Causecast.org It's estimated that approximately 3.5 million people in the United St...
William Stillman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
The children diagnosed with autism today may always require some degree of physical assistance for living in a leaden shell, but that doesn't invalidate their entitlement to participate, contribute, and to simply be.
Ambs. Samuel Lewis and Edward Walker | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
The momentum toward Israeli-Palestinian peace, stability and security must now be strengthened and serious negotiations begun by mid-fall, if not sooner.
Mark Juergensmeyer | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Recently we convened a workshop of senior scholars of South Asia studies and asked them to evaluate the US role in the region. They agreed upon the following five principles as the bases for formulating a new policy
Geralyn Dreyfous | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
In a summer focused on the health care, and the deaths of renowned politicians and celebrities, there was all too little attention on a government report released in June 2009 on global human trafficking.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.
Zeeshan Aleem | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Scott Gration, President Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, spoke with calm optimism Friday about the role of the United States in the fate of the largest state in Africa.
Kambale Musavuli | Posted 12.14.2009 | World