Public Health
Peru’s fight against tuberculosis demonstrates how global neglect endangers public health. COVID-19 setbacks, poverty, and limited care have driven TB’s rise. Now, proposed US aid cuts threaten progress, underscoring the need for stronger global action.
Women
"Human trafficking in the United States is a complex issue exacerbated by cultural values centered on wealth, power, and sex."
Interviews
Peter Stone is the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University in the UK. Stone has written and worked extensively on heritage preservation across the globe.
Interviews
Fernando Travesí is the Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He has over 20 years of international experience in transitional justice, human rights, and rule of law, working for both international organizations and NGOs.
China
Whether it be the genetic modification of human organs in of itself, developing techniques to revive previously damaged organ donations, and more–the most plaguing method would be xenotransplantation. Among those countries dominating the field of transplantation is China.
Middle East & Africa
"Human smugglers are an inextricable link in the chain that takes migrants to the European Union[...] the prevalence of smuggling networks will not diminish until migrants’ underlying motivations are addressed."
Employment & Immigration
"Currently, Venezuela is in desperate need of real long-term solutions that can help battle governmental corruption at its core and help alleviate the troubles that millions of Venezuelans go through every day as they are forced to leave their homeland."
Employment & Immigration
"Numerous Filipino workers suffer from various injustices including being overworked, underpaid, abused, raped, and even worse, murdered. The only way OFWs can truly be safeguarded is if the Philippine government enforces concrete and actionable policies."
Women
"The Nigerian case exposes social and legal dynamics evident elsewhere, for there are many countries in which cultural and religious forces coalesce to prevent the full enforcement of constitutional and legislated law."
Agriculture
"Colombia’s banana republic provides an ideal example for evaluating how non-state actors can also engage in imperialistic power. Analyzing the United Fruit Company’s presence offers useful insight into the nature of the geopolitical influence of non-state actors."
The Americas
Despite the rise of women’s empowerment and protection groups, as well as changing cultural and identity trends, the Dominican Republic is still fighting a battle against the violent machismo attitude ingrained in the culture and children’s upbringings.
Perspectives
"No less than 72 percent of all 831 journalists killed on the job from 1992 through the aughts, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), were murdered outright as crimes that stand as homicides."