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Global CooperationPhilippines Crisis Highlights Need for Food Aid Reform
The international community is scrambling to deliver emergency aid to cyclone-devastated areas of the Philippines. The United States’ response to the crisis...
“Blood Phones”: Corporate Complicity in Mass Atrocities
What links you, the average American consumer, to the deadliest conflict since World War II? Probably the cell phone in your pocket,...
The March Toward Human Rights for LGBTQ and Intersex Individuals
Several distinct, though often interrelated, human rights issues have been in the news in recent weeks: Gender and sexuality. Two weeks ago,...
Human RightsTragedy and Devastation in the Philippines
The Philippines are continuing recovery efforts following landfall of the deadliest typhoon to strike the country on Friday. Casualty figures are skyrocketing...
Peace & DisarmamentVeterans Day Vision
Today we honor veterans. My grandfather Charlie ran away and joined the army as a 16-year-old bugle boy in World War I....
Peace & DisarmamentFrom Symbolic Truce to Lasting Peace
Congratulations to the UN General Assembly for once again calling on countries to observe a world-wide ceasefire starting in February 2014 and...
Peace & DisarmamentBan the Bomb!
In April 2009 in Prague, President Obama told an adoring throng that he intended "to seek the peace and security of a...
Peace & DisarmamentOpen Letter #2 To My Grandson Jake
Letters to Jake Series, Letter #2 Dear Jake, At the wonderful age of 2, you are now a big brother! I can’t...
Global CooperationNSA Spying on Friends and Foes: Out of Control but not Surprising
One of the new facets of the continuing fallout from Edward Snowden's NSA document leaks this summer is the revelation that U.S....
A Step Back for Malaysia
Malaysia recently passed new amendments to its Prevention of Crime Act that represent blatant human rights violations. Most disturbing is the contention...
Human RightsBurma needs to address genocide in Rakhine State
The dire situation in the Burmese state of Rakhine has been given wider attention in the international community and UN thanks to...