As part of an on-site visit to Mexico, a delegation of the IACHR visited the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa, in Iguala, Guerrero State. Photo: IACHR (Flickr). Some rights reserved. In Latin America, constantly worrying about the safety of one’s growing children is second nature. First nature, I’d say, as evidenced by the first words…
Tunis. January 2018. Ines Mahmoud. All rights reserved.For the past three weeks the streets of Tunisia have been echoing screams for freedom, dignity and justice. These same calls led to the overthrow of Ben Ali’s dictatorship seven years ago. Fed up with newly imposed austerity measures, the people are taking their anger to the streets…
15 months ago, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson stood seemingly alone in her high-profile battle against sexual harassment in the workplace. But after an endless cycle of recent headlines centering on figures from former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, all the way up to President Trump himself, Carlson says we are now at a “watershed…
July 26, 2013. Anti-coup demonstrators at Rabaa Al-Adaweya square. AA/ABACA/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Human Rights Watch recently published a report exposing the use of “systematic torture” by Egyptian security forces. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of sexual violence, electric shocks and stress positions. Sadly, the report confirms what is already common…
THE GOOD NEWS: Despite prevailing narratives, consumer culture is not the core of gay identity. There’s a comforting simplicity to the logic that governs most makeover shows. “Queer Eye,” Netflix’s reboot of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” delivers on this front. The new-gen Fab Five — a racially-diverse cast of queer men who have…
THE GOOD NEWS: Bell and Shepard have battled fame and mental health issues, and now, they’re sharing what they’ve learned. Keeping a healthy relationship going in Hollywood for over 11 years seems like an eternity. But actors Kristen Bell (“Frozen,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) and Dax Shepard (“CHIPS,” “Idiocracy”) have managed to create a…
Citizens of Erbil stand in line to vote for independence referendum on September 25th, 2017. Picture by IranImages/Zuma Press/PA Images. All rights reserved. Of the 72 percent of registered voters who turned up at the polls, a little more than 93 percent opted to separate their homeland from Iraq. Independence, however, is fraught with the…
Click:微信号检测工具 THE GOOD NEWS: The measles vaccine has saved more than 20 million lives since 2000. Most people take the measles vaccine for granted. The MMR — measles, mumps, and rubella — shot is given when we’re kids. As a child, I specifically remember talking to my parents about MMR because I remarked that “Rubella”…
The European Organisation for Security (EOS), the chief lobby group for Europe’s “security industry” in 2011. Flickr/Security Defence Agenda. Some rights reserved. The EU has hit troubled waters in recent years, but divisions and tensions within the bloc have not halted significant advances in the development and implementation of new security measures aiming to counter…
Nearly everyone has had a moment of being a couch-bound critic. Reclined — and maybe covered in Cheetos dust — we’ve watched a movie or TV show and thought “I could have done a better job.” Yet most household critics will never get the chance to be part of a Hollywood production. Now Legion M, a startup film production company, is…