A poll was released today by a legal news service run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The organization is called Trustlaw, and the poll marked the launch of a women section dedicated to global news and information on women’s rights and legal rights( or the lack of it). Trustlaw asked 213 gender experts worldwide to [...]
Homelessness in America is nothing new. The endemic problem was greatly amplified in the 1980s by the policies of the Reagan administration in regard to de-funding mental health programs. The current recession following the financial crash of 2008 has compounded the problem to a breaking point. With states and cities, nationwide, facing major budget problems, [...]
By Anthony Zeitouni In Beirut the Syrian crisis invades and surrounds you; it is always there on the table, not just because we are neighboring countries but because we are “one people in two countries” as the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad said. Also, more Syrians fled to Lebanon during the current crisis, than the [...]
To make the brutal repression less visible, the Assad regime is not allowing any international journalists into Syria. The estimate death toll from Assad’s crackdown on protesters is more than 1,300 people according to several human rights organizations. In the last few days, the repression has been even more severe as the protesters are not [...]
The use of the worst crime committed against women, and implemented almost as a “policy” is making worldwide headline news in the past few weeks. It is the case in Libya, where allegations of such war crimes have surfaced against Gaddafi. It is also the case in South Africa in regards to “corrective” rapes, which [...]
