They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya
By Andrew E. Kramer Ilya and Nohcho, gay men from Chechnya, sought refuge at a house outside the Caucasus region in southern Russia. Both...
New York Times 1
Apr 21, 2017
Russia Bans Jehovah’s Witnesses, Calling It an Extremist Group
MOSCOW — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday declared Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination that rejects violence, an extremist...
New York Times 1
Apr 20, 2017
Nikki Haley Presides Over Human Rights Discussion at U.N. Security Council
In a bid to show that the Trump administration cares about human rights around the world, its envoy to the United Nations, Nikki R....
New York Times 1
Apr 18, 2017
Why did 41 girls die at a Guatemalan youth shelter?
Accusations of abuse and neglect have come to light after a fire at a state-funded youth shelter killed 41 girls. On March 10, a funeral...
Al Jazeera
Apr 18, 2017
SPLC sues neo-Nazi leader who targeted Jewish woman in anti-Semitic harassment campaign
The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with its Montana co-counsel, filed suit in federal court today against the founder of a major...
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Apr 17, 2017
Haley: Anti-gay abuses in Chechnya ‘cannot be ignored’
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says America will not ignore reports that authorities in the Russian republic of...
The Hill
Apr 17, 2017
The Forgotten Gay Holocaust
As a New York Jew, the Holocaust was introduced into my life at quite an early stage. Although a full conceptual understanding would take...
The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Apr 14, 2017
WHAT DOES ISIS WANT IN EGYPT?
The twin bomb blasts that tore through two Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday marked the latest episode in the Islamic State...
Newsweek
Apr 14, 2017
Amnesty International honours Canada’s Indigenous-rights movement
Children’s rights advocate Cindy Blackstock is among the six people selected to represent the movement. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian...
The Globe and Mail
Apr 13, 2017
Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar Describe Military Tactic Of Systematic Rape
The Balukali refugee camp, located about an hour's drive south of the seaside tourist city of Cox's Bazar, is one of many informal camps...
NPR 1
Apr 13, 2017
Instruments of Pain: Conflict and Famine
The last time the UN declared a famine was in 2011, in Somalia. The last time it faced more than one major famine simultaneously was more...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 13, 2017
Egypt’s example of cross-faith goodwill
REUTERS Minarets of a mosque and the cross above a church are seen near Cairo, Egypt, April 11. April 11, 2017 —As it loses ground...
The Christian Science Monitor
Apr 11, 2017
