U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Jack Healey | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
If you feel torture should be allowed to protect our national interests and therefore we are exempt as a nation, at least do this one thing: read or meet a story of a survivor of torture.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
If they have already disconnected the digital ticker with its messages, then it's time, also, to lower the flags intended to hide it.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
France enjoys the benefit of a National Health Program or 'assurance maladie.' Typically, social protection and health care work in combination and that is a concept widely accepted in Europe.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
This letter speaks eloquently to an issue critical to the administration and the conduct of our society.
Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment
The online auction will raise funds supporting the RFK Center's vital work around the globe.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
Despite cosmetic changes to the Durban conference, there is every reason to believe we are in for yet another hate fest. Let's hope that this farce will not generate new tragedies.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Israel's willingness to abort the Shalit deal by insisting that some Hamas prisoners must be deported reveals a long-term problem, namely Israel's intention to hold on to the West Bank indefinitely.
Pia Sawhney | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics
If Ms. Roosevelt was around today... would she have used the 60th anniversary of the UDHR the way gay activists have; and would she have endorsed a national boycott in solidarity with them?
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business
The factory sit-in could launch an economic human rights movement that takes off where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. left off when he was assassinated supporting striking sanitation workers.
Michael DeJong | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living
Living consciously and mindfully of the potential for cradle-to-cradle living and sustainability is empowering enough to make tiny but impactful different choices in our purchases.
John Kirk Boyd | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living
The 2048 Project provides a process by which individuals, organizations and governments developing the "rule of law" can focus together and draft an optimal international framework.
Nancy Northup | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
Hillary understands that the mere recognition of rights is not enough: they must improve the lives and health of women.
Christian Science Monitor | Sara Miller Llana | Posted 01.10.2009 | World
Mexico City - On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Wednesday -- a day when Cuban dissidents traditionally g...
Priscilla Gonzalez and Rebecca Smith | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Many domestic workers have no legal right to overtime pay or a day off. Should they fall ill, suffer injury, or become unemployed, the vast majority do not qualify for benefits.
Adrienne Germain | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living
Based on decades of international work, we know that there will be no global peace or security until we secure every woman's right to a just and healthy life.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment
Jack Healey | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York