The unquestioned vegan bible, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, celebrates twenty years in print this year with the release of an updated anniversary edition. At the same time, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management released research detailing the continued link between meat-eating and gender role stereotypes, i.e., real men still don‘t [...]

This is the first part of a series -Slinging Stones at Goliath – that examines cases where small, local NGOs have taken on powerful interests and made a difference. Here, groups in Croatia are fighting to save an idyllic landscape from being destroyed by an outrageous project to build golf courses and hotels.

On Tuesday May 18, 2010, Kentucky Republicans chose Tea Party member Rand Paul as their candidate for the United States Senate. This deserves special note because of racially slanted comments recently made by the candidate. Dr. Paul backpedaled, perhaps at the suggestion of his advisors, but the effect is the same regardless. Rand Paul is either libertarian to an [...]

In the temperate cycle between evening and twilight, Ugandan families prepare dinner. Living to the cycle of seasons and nature’s clock, there is a quiet pace that breaks the sounds of day. Chickens and goats are settling down, the air becomes more still and windows glow with an evening light. The daytime sounds in the neighborhood are [...]

In a world of slanted news programs, endless commentators, politicians, researchers, and talk shows, it can be difficult to discern a firsthand account on a subject as widely discussed as human rights violations.  While reporters (like this one) and op-ed pieces offer summaries and statistics, victims may remain silent because they fear punishment by a [...]

On Tuesday May 4, “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart interviewed former first lady Rosalynn Carter, author of “Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis.” Carter has been a mental health advocate for thirty-nine years and told Stewart that the “mental health situation is no better than it was when I started.”

  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is pushing to ratify a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia as of Thursday April 15, 2010. Ostensibly, the free trade agreement is symbiotically beneficial to the U.S. and Colombia. Ratification of this agreement will rustle feathers in Latin America where the U.S. has historically flexed military [...]

This past December, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)  found that Japanese authorities breached the rights of two Greenpeace activists who had uncovered corruption in the Japanese whaling program.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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. Read [...]