Originally posted by Bill Chappell on NPR on February 2, 2016— “Police have arrested three teenagers — ages 13, 16, and 17 — who are believed to have carried out last week’s deadly attack on a homeless camp in Seattle known as “The Jungle.” Two people were killed in the shooting; three more were hospitalized. … More Teens Arrested In Mass Shooting At Seattle Homeless Camp
By CHOE SANG-HUN on DEC. 28, 2015, for The New York Times— “More than 70 years after the end of World War II, South Korea and Japan reached a landmark agreement on Monday to resolve their dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan’s Imperial Army. The agreement, in which Japan made an apology and promised an … More Japan and South Korea Settle Dispute Over Wartime ‘Comfort Women’
By SOMINI SENGUPTA on MARCH 9, 2015 in The New York Times— “The evidence is ubiquitous. The gang rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi sets off an unusual burst of national outrage in India. In South Sudan, women are assaulted by both sides in the civil war. In Iraq, jihadists enslave women for sex. And American colleges face mounting scrutiny … More U.N. Reveals ‘Alarmingly High’ Levels of Violence Against Women
By MARGIE MASON, ROBIN McDOWELL, MARTHA MENDOZA and ESTHER HTUSAN for AP on Dec. 14, 2015— “Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped … More Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves
By Rafael Romo, CNN, on November 10, 2015— “Karla Jacinto is sitting in a serene garden. She looks at the ordinary sights of flowers and can hear people beyond the garden walls, walking and talking in Mexico City. She looks straight into my eyes, her voice cracking slightly, as she tells me the number she … More Human Trafficking Survivor: “I Was Raped 43,200 Times”
By Ian Urbina on November 9, 2015, for The NY Times— “When Eril Andrade left this small village, he was healthy and hoping to earn enough on a fishing boat on the high seas to replace his mother’s leaky roof. Seven months later, his body was sent home in a wooden coffin: jet black from … More Tricked and Indebted on Land, Abused or Abandoned at Sea
By Willa Frej on April 17, 2015 for MSNBC.com— “The United States has a record of human rights abuses despite its position as a leading voice on human rights issues worldwide, legal experts said at a forum here on Friday, from water shutoffs in Detroit and widespread police brutality to Guantanamo Bay and drone strikes. The alleged … More Legal Experts Pan US for Disappointing Human Rights Record
By Cale Weissman on on Broadly.vice.com— “Last year Emily Kennedy found herself sitting at an LAPD precinct. The 25-year-old wasn’t in trouble—she was helping with a sting. A group of girls sat in the office waiting to be questioned. Kennedy watched as a detective casually asked one a series of questions. It was clear this … More The Young Woman Who Created A New Way to Bust Sex Trafficking Rings
Originally published by Sadho Ram on Oct. 4, 2015, on Says.com— “Photographer Adi Sarfi’s photos of refugees posing with their most valuable belongings that they escaped with during their journey to Malaysia to seek refuge are at once striking and revealing. Titled ‘Home and Away’, the results offer a rare glimpse into what do people, in their … More Malaysian Photographer Takes Photos Of Refugees With Their Most Valuable Belongings
Originally posted by Sewell Chan on nytimes.com/on October 9, 2015— “A coalition of labor union leaders, businesspeople, lawyers and human rights activists won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what the Nobel committee called “its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.” … More Nobel Peace Prize Is Awarded to National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia
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