By Claire Halbrook
“Women aren’t the problem, they’re the solution along with men.”
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, recently spoke at UC San Diego about his new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Through this new publication, he hopes to recruit new followers “to [...]
By Ariel Lee
Forsaken is a short documentary created by a team of international students to raise awareness on the issue of Hong Kong’s elderly living in poverty. Significantly, it touches on a subject that not many know about–cage homes, a form of government housing that resembles human chicken coops. With the assistance of [...]
Children and Their Use in Armed Conflict in Chattisgarh, India
By Advait Praturi
Executive Summary
“We are inevitably our brother’s keeper… whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The purpose of this brief is to examine the origins of the use of children in armed conflict in the southern districts of Dantewada and Bastar in [...]
The Economic Benefits of Fair Trade
By Apratim Ghosh
The Fair Trade program is a form of international trade whose general goal is to provide a balanced set of economic gains for producers and consumers. Its primary concern is to aid small producers of commodity exports from developing countries that have been marginalized by the current trading [...]
An Analysis of the Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
By Rick Relinger
The United States has traditionally claimed its place as the pinnacle of democracy and justice in the world. This powerful rhetoric was evoked not only to garner public support for the War on Terror, but also to justify the treatment of individuals taken [...]
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