Rebecca Lee Sanchez

GlobalPost

Rebecca Sanchez is a contributor to The GroundTruth Project's RIGHTS blog on GlobalPost, where she was previously deputy editor of Special Reports. She holds an M.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A Cuban-American from Miami, she earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Anthropology, from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, for which spent a semester in Thailand conducting fieldwork for an ethnographic work on the kingdom's sex tourism industry.

Uruguay Senate votes to legalize same-sex marriage

July 30, 2016Conflict

If the bill is passed, Uruguay will become the 12th country to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

Cause of Thai refugee camp fire that killed 38 Burma refugees still a mystery

July 30, 2016Conflict

Turkish protesters challenge authoritarian rule, Islamic law

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

Gang rape of US tourist in India brings arrests as legal reform moves slowly

July 30, 2016Conflict

Aung San Suu Kyi talks presidency, poverty and rule of law at World Economic Forum

July 30, 2016Conflict

Bangladeshi labor rights activist calls out Walmart at annual investor meeting

July 30, 2016Conflict

Kalpona Akter challenged Walmart’s Rob Walton to join a binding safety accord that would change the way his company does business in Bangladesh.

Russia’s anti-gay bill reflects rising homophobia

July 30, 2016Conflict

What could become Russia’s first federal law directed at the LGBT community since 1993 begs the question, what is behind the sudden regressive attitude toward LGBT rights?

Mali detains child soldiers together with adults

July 30, 2016Conflict

As the U.N. releases 2012 Report of Children and Armed Conflict, Amnesty International condemns detention of child soldiers in adult facilities.

Israel-Palestine: on John Kerry’s economic peace plan

July 30, 2016Conflict

Palestinian-Israeli friction surrounding a return to negotiations intensifies as John Kerry prepares for his fifth visit to the region this year.

World Health Organization releases global report on violence against women

July 30, 2016Politics

What the report exposes is a vast spectrum of human rights abuses against women that spans beyond geographical boundaries—far across any one political, cultural or religious landscape.