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Will the Nigerian Government Actually #BringBackOurGirls?
The Nigerian government has stated that it has finally secured the release of the more than 200 hundred girls abducted from a...
Global CooperationComprehensive World Food Policy
October 16 is the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization's World Food Day--a yearly reminder that there are people who are constantly hungry...
Nigerian Atrocities Go Largely Unnoticed
12.5 million internally displaced civilians, 3 million refugees, 700,000 stateless people. These alarming statistics are not related to ISIL or Syria or...
Global JusticeHuman Trafficking: Time for Change
There are more slaves in the world now than at any other point in history. Let that sink in for a second....
Global JusticeContinuing the Fight Against North Korean Atrocities
We all have some idea of how bad things are in North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). We’re...
Speaking Out Against Rape Culture
When you dress like that, you are asking to be raped. For every man in jail for rape, there should be a...
Protective Edge and Sport as Peace
If I began by saying that the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is longstanding and complicated, that would be trite and tired and everything you...
Journalist’s Detention Highlights Importance of Immigration Reform
US Border Control officers released Jose Antonio Vargas last Wednesday, after holding him overnight at an airport in McAllen, TX, for failing...
Roméo Dallaire: Leaving the Senate But Not the Life of Service
In Canada, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire is a household name. When asked in elementary school to write a composition on a Canadian Hero,...
FIFA: For the Game. For the World.
Soccer (football) is the beautiful game. As an American this might sound strange, but I am thoroughly convinced that no sport trumps...
Global JusticeThailand: The Story That Flew the Coup
The international media has a tendency to focus on the news stories that will garner the greatest attention from a given audience....