Development & Education

Family separation under ‘zero-tolerance’ policy could leave lasting trauma in children, pediatric doctor says

June 19, 2018

It has become a hot-button topic in American politics. But beyond the numbers of children being separated from their parents at the border are very real, long-term effects from toxic stress, one expert says.

Conflict

In northern Uganda, these women move past insurgency by baking cakes

GlobalPost

June 15, 2018

Today, the group has 61 members — women who are HIV-positive, widows, single mothers, women who face domestic abuse, former abductees who lost their limbs or still live with bullet wounds and women whose children were abducted during the conflict, with some of them never returning.

Technology

Sweden's #Teknisktfel movement exposes sexual harassment in the tech industry

GlobalPost

June 11, 2018

Inspired by the #MeToo movements that spread around the world last fall, #Teknisktfel is a petition, hashtag and website run by seven women in Sweden’s tech industry dedicated to chronicling the harassment and discrimination that women in the field face every day.

Conflict & Justice

Nearly half of Afghan children are out of school. Most are girls.

Reuters

June 03, 2018

Nearly half all children in Afghanistan are out of school due to conflict, poverty, child marriage and discrimination against girls, the number rising for the first time since 2002, humanitarian organizations said in a report on Sunday.

Conflict

Overfished: In Senegal, empty nets lead to hunger and violence

GlobalPost

May 30, 2018

The crisis is now forcing West African countries fronting the Atlantic to fight one another over the fish that remain.

July's monsoon will exacerbate a public health crisis in Rohingya refugee camps

The Takeaway

May 24, 2018

Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh have struggled to get adequate food, housing and medical supplies since their arrival. The upcoming monsoon season is sure to strain already less-than-ideal infrastructure.

Culture

Grassroots efforts help forge new paths of LGBTI acceptance in the Philippines

GlobalPost

April 20, 2018

About 15 cities around the country have passed their own anti-discrimination ordinances but none have quite followed through with the vigor and determination as Quezon City, a bustling metropolis about 9 miles from the Philippine capital of Manila.

Conflict

When the US bows out of nation-building, China steps in

America Abroad

April 17, 2018

Unlike Western nations, China doesn't demand democratic reform or human rights standards when engaging with states with weak or failing governments. Syria is a case in point.

Culture

Child 'superheroes' free children from child labor and marriage

GlobalPost

April 16, 2018

A group of 15 kids, mostly former dropouts themselves, fan out across Kolkata's slums to free children like themselves from the constraints of child labor and child marriages — by getting them back in school.

Development

Brazilian regional leaders seek to slow movement of refugees from Venezuela

Reuters

April 14, 2018

Brazil's President Michel Temer, attending the Summit of the Americas in Lima, said closing the border was "unthinkable."