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Milla: Being Transgender in India
Milla is an impossibly beautiful young woman. And she knows it. In every WhatsApp and Facebook selfie she commands attention and arouses desire in young men in Chennai and beyond. When my friends see...
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I [Heart] Israel -- Creatively, Authentically
Last week, an international graffiti gang "bombed" Netanya, Jerusalem, and other Israeli cities. Those edgy, hyper-colorful, spray-painted murals New Yorkers in the 1970s called "vandalism,"...
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Providing Toilets And Clean Water Access Is All Talk And No Action In Some...
There have been significant improvements worldwide in terms of making basic water and sanitation access available, a new report found on World Toilet Day. But large gaps in funding continue to slow...
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Obama's Step-Grandma Is Helping Kids And Creating Change We Can Believe In, Too
President Obama's only living grandparent is working on changing the education system in Kenya. Mama Sarah Obama, the president's step-grandmother, created the Mama Sarah Obama Foundation to provide...
View ArticleLegal Issues Aren't The Biggest Problem Facing Young People Crossing The...
With much of the border crisis conversation in recent years focusing on the legal situation surrounding children flooding the Mexico-U.S. border, one ascending figure goes underreported: the growing...
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Three Causes Behind Mexico's Crisis of Corruption and Impunity
There is a mistaken tendency to attribute Mexican corruption to practices going back to the Spanish conquest. It is a theory of original sin that tracks the creation of a "culture of corruption" to...
View ArticleAttacks Put Jerusalem On Edge
JERUSALEM (AP) — Streets are subdued, marketplaces are quiet and people are on edge in Jewish areas of Jerusalem, where Arabs have been using meat cleavers, guns, screwdrivers and even their cars in...
View ArticleThere Are Serious Deals On Home Goods At Kohl's This Black Friday
The store: Kohl's The time: Kohl's is one of the stores starting its Black Friday sales early, both in stores and online. Sales begin at 6 p.m. nationwide in Kohl's stores on Thanksgiving Day. Online,...
View ArticleGerman Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves
The tiny German town of Wunsiedel has for decades seen crowds of neo-Nazis pass through its streets in annual demonstrations, but this year something was different. While the extremists received a...
View ArticleNorth Korea May Be Restarting Nuclear Plant With Bomb Making Capabilities
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly six years North Korea may be restarting a plant that can reprocess nuclear fuel into weapons-grade plutonium, a U.S. research institute said Wednesday....
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Terrapin's Escape From Crocodile Is Tough To Swallow, But It Happened
They weren't playing catch. In a spectacular moment photographed at Kruger National Park in South Africa, a terrapin is flicked into the air by a crocodile waiting for its shellshocked prey to land in...
View ArticleVeterans Group Opposes Obama's Immigration Action Because Of ISIS
The head of one of the nation's largest veterans groups on Thursday said the threat of terrorist groups in the Middle East was the reason the group, the American Legion, opposes President Barack...
View ArticleDiplomatic Dust-Up Means Big Bucks For Former GOP Congressman Connie Mack IV
WASHINGTON -- Relations between the United States and Hungary have deteriorated rapidly in recent weeks, following news that the U.S. imposed travel bans on six Hungarian officials it believes are...
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How What We Measure Doesn't Measure Up
As if it weren't bad enough that the Information Age deluged us with data, now we're finding out that some of our favorite metrics aren't telling us what we really want to know. Take economic...
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Mexico's Military in the Eye of Ayotzinapa Storm
Troubling Questions on Role of Military in Ayotzinapa Case as National Crisis Builds: When Iguala, Guerrero municipal police and masked men in unmarked black uniforms opened fire on unarmed students...
View ArticleWe All Deserve Justice
You don't have to be a human rights activist to know that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans can get you killed pretty much anywhere. Tragically, we can cite numerous examples: the 2012...
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Trunkster's No-Zipper Suitcase Has A Surprise Feature You Have To See
Looking for a sleeker, more efficient suitcase? Check out Trunkster. The company, which makes zipper-free luggage with "intelligent features," launched a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday and far...
View ArticleProperty Rights Key to Reform, in Algeria and Across the MENA Region
Co-authored by Samy Boukaila, Founding Member and Treasurer, CARE Algeria, the largest nation on the African continent, is pushing economic reforms in a process that is far from easy. The country's...
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In Fiji First Responders Train to Address Sexual Violence in Disasters
Cross-posted from UN Women In March 2012, flooding caused by torrential rain devastated the western and northern parts of Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu, leaving more than 8,000 people sheltered in 91...
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Cambodia Takes Multi-Pronged Approach to Confronting Gender-Based Violence
Cross-posted from UN Women “As a child, I always asked my mother to teach me to cook. But when my father saw me in the kitchen, he got angry with me for doing women´s work. Later in life, I experienced...
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