Noor Mehvish never expected to find herself listed as an auction item on the virtual marketplace Sulli Deals, an app that advertises Muslim women in India as prostitutes. The goal: to publicly shame and intimidate women like Mehvish who voice ...
The Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile and is the driest, nonpolar desert in the world. It is a barren expanse of red-orange rock canyons and peaks, with stargazing tourists coming from all over to witness the breathtaking view ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official state visit in June 2023 saw a surge of thousands of South Asians flooding the nation’s capital. Some rallied in strong support of the controversial leader; others seized his visit as an opportunity to protest ...
From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala was engaged in a brutal civil war claiming the lives of over 200,000 Guatemalans. In January 1986, President Vinicio Cerezo was inaugurated, marking the inauguration of the first elected civilian since the start of the ...
KOLKATA, India — The election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014 marked the death of religious freedom in India. In his eight years in power, Modi has been widely successful in his promotion ...
SDG Overview Regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals intended to provide quantitative data on each country’s development progress, Syria ranks 130th of 166 countries and territories. Syria particularly lags behind its regional counterparts ...
Zionism is a nationalist and political movement that emerged in the late 19th century among Jewish communities in Europe, with the central aim of establishing a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. The movement was founded by Theodor ...
“The Monk and the Gun,” a 2023 Bhutanese film written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji, was theatrically released in the United States on Feb. 9, 2024. The film tells two concurrent stories. The first is of Bhutan’s mock elections ...
How Brazil may willingly tank its economy through the establishment of a joint trade currency with Argentina. Brazil, a pioneer for the Global South and Latin America’s self-proclaimed regional leader, has long been recognized as a potential power in the ...
Imagine someone going to the beach and stepping into the water as the waves crash onto the shore. Except instead of seaweed brushing past their feet, it’s clothes. Thousands of clothes. Everything from t-shirts to socks, pants and dresses. Lining ...