From Conducive Mag- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010Arrested by Haitian authorities for trying to cross illegally into the Dominican Republic with 33 so-called orphaned children, whose parents were later found to be alive, U.S. citizens and Idaho Baptist missionaries Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter remain imprisoned in Port-au-Prince pending investigation of alleged child trafficking. Seeking to save... […]
- Stressed Graduate Student March 8, 2010Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan offers relationship advice to a female law student and highlights the differences in how men and women handle dating in graduate school. […]
- Preserving Relationship with Parents Despite Their Disapproval Over New Job March 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on preserving the relationship with one's parents despite tension over a new do-gooder job. […]
- FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 February 25, 2010ISSUE 6 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 […]
- A Bronx Girl Goes Home February 5, 2010The murder of a cousin takes Conducive editor Heather Tirado Gilligan back to her home in the Bronx, and back to the childhood and experiences that continue to shape her. […]
- Using Anger Constructively February 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on using anger constructively. […]
- Looking Back to the Future? January 30, 2010Humankind, both collectively and individually, has a strange little quirk. We ignore the past when it holds valuable lessons that go against what we want to hear or believe. Our insistence in doing this has negatively affected our future many times, both as individuals and as a society. We give... […]
- Campaigns Take Individual Involvement To New Level January 28, 2010The production and consumption of bottled water contributes to waste, pollution, toxins, and the bottled water industry’s interest in controlling our water resources. As a result of these negative impacts, many people have vowed to stop buying bottled water. If you have successfully ditched bottled water, and want to stay... […]
- REDUCING THE SUICIDE STIGMA Suresh Unni's Story January 21, 2010There are many ways of coping with the loss of a loved one. For Suresh Unni, solace is found in sharing his brother's experience with depression and eventual demise from suicide. Through his work as a clinical social worker and therapist and participation on the board of directors of the... […]
- Dating a Separated Person January 18, 2010Conducive advice columunist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on dating a separated person. […]
- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010
Tag Archives: human rights
Tough Work
On January 15, Senate President Mike Haridopolos and House Speaker Dean Cannon joined business, education, government and labor leaders at the Florida Jobs Summit to brainstorm how best to rebuild the state’s economic prosperity. With 3,073 offenders released from Florida prisons this past August alone, this issue is worth considering.
Do Androids Dream of Al-Qaeda?
The original Battlestar Galactica series was created in the late 1970s as a TV version of immensely popular Star Wars movie. A story about space-faring ancestors of mankind began successfully but quickly plummeted in its ratings that led to the series’ cancellation. So when in 2003 SciFi Channel announced its remake led by producers Ronald [...]
Posted in Literature, Media & Entertainment, Video Also tagged Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner, Cylons, Guantanamo, Iraq, speculative fiction, War on Terror 4 Comments
Time Capsuled
At age eleven, I was blogging.
Only back then, it was called keeping a diary.
On April 4, 1968, this then-Florida girl documented her thoughts on the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
‘99 to ‘09: WTO Resistance in the Pacific Northwest
Ten years after the Battle in Seattle, activists in Portland and around the world gathered to protest the World Trade Organization as it held its ministerial meeting in Geneva. The combined effect, however, did little to deter trade negotiations. What does this say about the changing face of activism, and does it mean the WTO [...]
Posted in Culture & History, Environment Also tagged Activism, Climate Change, dissent, Portland, protests, WTO Leave a comment
EDITORIAL Trading in Babies
Writer, activist, and adoptee filmmaker So Yung Kim recommends reorganizing the transnational adoption industry in order to protect the rights of children. Domestic and international adoptees are already coming together to discuss options and partner on policy issues. Kim also proposes more coalition building between adoptee groups and other collectives fighting for the basic rights [...]
EDITORIAL International Adoption and the Fight for Human Rights
Adult international adoptees have begun participating in a debate over whose best interests the practice actually serves, or should serve: the adopter or the adoptee? Hilbrand Westra, chairman of United Adoptees International, takes a critical look at the practice of international adoption and lays out how international law can help us fight child trafficking.
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Human rights of Greenpeace anti-whaling whistleblowers were denied by Japan