Uganda: A Rebellion on the Run, Crossing Borders
Decades of conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army have taken thousands of lives in Uganda. More than two million people have been pushed from their homes, and peace talks have stalled on rebel fears...
View ArticleOn Poverty’s Coattails, Slavery Thrives
Impoverished girls from Eastern Europe and Africa are prime targets for pimps and smugglers. As many as 5,000 youth have been sold into prostitution and literal domestic slavery in the United Kingdom,...
View ArticleIntolerance Seeks, and Gains, New Footholds
Extremists worldwide are harnessing unemployment, social unrest, gender conflict and simple bigotry to advance their crusades. In France, Jean-Marie Le Pen -- an accused racist who calls for an end to...
View ArticleMining in South Africa: Apartheid’s Legacy
Two Italian companies are suing South Africa over a law that requires firms to sell to black investors to redress abuses of black laborers under the apartheid system. The companies say that their...
View ArticleINDIA: Gender Bias Drives Abortion Boom
Up to a million Indian mothers illegally abort their female fetuses every year in India, and police are discovering the remains in toilets or gutters. Effects on the sex ratio have been dire, with 817...
View ArticleLabor Groups Tackle Child Exploitation
Cheap labor from children working in slavelike conditions is booming worldwide. But in India, Africa and Turkey, activists are taking on the problem with education and outreach. An estimated 100,000...
View ArticleConscience is the Question at a Time of War
Writing in the Guardian, columnist Henry Porter says Western forces may have triggered the violence in Iraq, but that "the great majority of casualties are caused by Arabs killing Arabs." In...
View ArticlePacked Into Prisons, With No Relief in Sight
Crowded jails from the Mexican border to North Carolina have prisoners packed into cells, sleeping in day rooms and struggling with overflowing sewers and waste water. There's plenty of money in...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Spreads
Even as Al Qaeda sympathizers in the United Kingdom make headlines, the terrorist group has seen affiliates taking root in other countries. In Algeria, officers arrested 13 minors, some as young as 12,...
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Upswing in “re-virgination” procedures, products
Women who fear social or religious consequences of having sex outside of marriage are turning to "re-virgination" doctors and products to offer the illusion of virginity. Some of the women are Asian or...
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