“I substituted my husband for bolsa familia,” said Maria Da Paz, a Brazilian mother of three young girls who lives in the hazardous landslide zone of Rio De Janeiro’s largest favelas, Rocinha, according to The Guardian. Analogous to Maria, 7.2 ...
Yassar Dahbour is a Palestinian political activist who was born in a refugee camp in Syria after his family was expelled from Palestine in 1948. Now living in Sacramento, California, he is a founder and board member of the Sacramento ...
The Tennessee ‘Drag Ban’, signed into law by Governor Bill Lee on Mar. 2, 2023, has sparked controversy over its potential violation of First Amendment rights and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals. In recent years, drag shows have become a ...
LGBTQ rights have undoubtedly progressed within the last decade. As a young college student at a university located in a liberal metropolitan city and a non-denominational Western country, it is easy to be misled. It can be easy to forget ...
The Arab Spring, a series of anti-government uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in the early 2010s, aimed to address long-standing grievances against the region’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. While the string of revolutions resulted in modest political, ...
Nusantara, meaning “archipelago” in Javanese, is what Indonesia announced its new capital will be called — a fitting name, as Indonesia is one of the largest archipelagos in the Indo-Pacific region. As a result, Indonesia not only faces ethnic, religious ...
Throughout our lives, if we’re lucky, we will come across people and experiences that genuinely help us grow and change us for the better. Glimpse was more than luck; it was destiny. I joined Glimpse in 2020 from my apartment ...
With important domestic and foreign policies in Turkey’s horizon, the May 14 elections are of critical importance to Turkey, Europe, the Middle East and global policy at large. Fethi Can Yaşar is the representative of the U.S. youth branch of ...
Since I was a little girl, I’ve spent the winter holidays at my grandmother’s house in Kerala, India. I treasured the early morning walks with my father to the neighborhood ambalam, or temple, breathing in the balmy air as the ...
There is often nothing more painful than seeing loved ones struggle some 10,000 km away. One thing more painful is the inability to reunite with loved ones due to the substantial risk of being detained or sent to prison. Seeing ...