Politics
International Human Trafficking Prevention Taken to a New Level
Each year, 600,000-800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders. Approximately 80 percent are women and girls. Human trafficking is the second largest source of illegal income worldwide, exceeded only by drug trafficking. International organization Stop the Traffik […]
NEWS: Driver killed as stolen vehicle entered U.S. National Security Administration Monday
The driver of a car that sped into the National Security Agency campus Monday morning was shot and killed by security personnel, while his cohort was left wounded. The man driving the stolen Ford Escape entered a secured highway exit at the NSA. section […]
Women’s empowerment in Pakistan: Four Lessons to Learn
“I understood then what it meant to be a woman in the harshest circumstances in the world and to have your very existence be a source of shame.” Named one of Time Magazine’s 30 under 30 world changers and Forbes 30 […]
So You Think You’re a World Citizen: A Global Identity
We’ve all seen the futuristic movies where people wake up in one country, commute across the world in the blink of an eye, meet up with friends for drinks on another continent, and zip back home for dinner. And I […]
Atrocity in the Sudan: Mass Rape in Darfur
On February 11, 2015 the Human Rights Watch released a report on Sudanese army forces executing military orders that included going door-to-door and looting property, arresting men, beating residents, and raping at least 221 women and girls inside their homes […]
Neo Liberalism Part 4: What Can We Do?
Throughout this series, we have discussed how big government structural adjustment programs and multilateral financial institutions perpetuate Neoliberalism. They use a top down approach to poverty reduction, that doesn’t really help those who are most impoverished. So, what can we […]
Neoliberalism Part 3: What Happened in Jamaica?
In order to understand how Neoliberalism affects Jamaica, We have to look at some history. The Island was a colonial possession of England until its independence in 1962. Many countries that have been colonies of westerns powers have had trouble, […]
Neoliberalism Part 1: What Is It?
In our globalized world, we are constantly bombarded with terms like globalization, free trade and even liberal economic policy. These phrases are thrown into different context and often seem to represent the same thing without having that intention. What are […]
