As a Gen Z college student, I keep hearing the same confusion and anger from my peers regarding Joe Biden’s inaction in calling out Israel for their humanitarian rights abuses in Gaza. After the recent attack on humanitarian aid workers ...
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 ...
“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 ...
2024 marks the tenth anniversary and the conclusion of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) #IBelong Campaign, a decade-long push to resolve statelessness around the globe. Although statelessness can seem like a simple phenomenon, it is, in reality, ...
Democracy in global decline, full-blown conflict in Europe and the Middle East, and Western hegemony up for grabs — this is the reality for a unipolar world increasingly challenged by multipolarity. The challenge in question? China. Although the United States ...