I don’t want to leave, but I have to. When I left, I didn’t want to go. But in Venezuela, there was nothing more
Category: International
US attempts to abort UN resolution on conflict-related sexual violence
Another day. Another outrage by the Trump administration. This time the outrage happened on the floor of the United Nations. While the attention of
Changing Pakistani women’s lives, one sip of tea, one bike ride at a time
Sadia Khatri is determined to change the lives of women and girls in Pakistan—one tea-sipping, snacking, strolling, bicycle-riding excursion at a time. The story
Togo: another country I know nothing about
Togo is not Tonga. I had not thought about either of those tiny nations until, literally, yesterday, when I wrote a post about a
What I learned by sending school supplies to Tonga
Where’s Tonga? That’s a question I had never before asked, until a young woman I know joined the Peace Corps, was assigned to the
15-year-old Swedish student sparks international Fridays for Future movement
Sometimes it takes just one person to spark a movement. Swedish student Greta Thunberg is one such person. In August 2018 the then fifteen-year-old
Justin Trudeau trumps Trump’s dumbed-down view of immigration
At a recent town hall meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a tough question about Canada’s immigration policies. Trudeau’s low-key
Defying religious misogyny, Hindu women create a human wall of inclusion
As we in the U.S. watched the federal government shut down because of one man’s fixation on a border-wall boondoggle meant to exclude desperate
Nauert: Another unqualified Trump appointee, another step backward in world affairs
Sometime in early 2019 Heather Nauert, Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will go before the Senate for confirmation hearings.
A New Deal for US foreign policy
Instead of grieving for the past, or focusing on whether world leaders laughed at or with President Trump at the United Nations, grassroots progressives