A challenge: our safari car getting stuck in a lake bed. Photo courtesy of Ali Rucker. To celebrate the first year of my Peace Corps service, I wanted to incorporate another Peace…
Debating the Undebatable: How Do We Define Human Rights?
Turn the lens on you. Image by Flickr user Jeremy Schultz. On my way home from work this evening, I caught a piece on NPR about a manifesto for women…
Equality for Whom? Reflecting on the State of Freedom
Erica reflects on the state of America’s freedoms on the occasion of its birthday. Image from huffingtonpost.com. I always get a little squicky when the Fourth of July rolls around…
Faces of Domestic Violence
I’ve talked about intimate partner/domestic violence in this column before: It’s not simply a beating every now and then, but a pernicious pattern of brutal emotional and psychological assaults capable…
Outcry in Morocco after alleged rapist marries his victim-could a change in the law be imminent?
When I heard about the plight of 16 year old Moroccan, Amina al-Filali, I felt angry, disgusted and ashamed to be associated with this country. There is outrage among many…
A commentary on sexualized violence as a “women’s issue”
There’s a lot floating around in popular discourse at the moment about American comedian Daniel Tosh and the rape-joke fiasco that left several people feeling victimized and a hell of…
An Open Letter to Kenneth Roth (Let’s Talk About It)
http://womensenews.org/story/equalitywomen%E2%80%99s-rights/120227/human-rights-groups-blur-issues-women-rights If you could write a letter to a human rights worker, what would you say? Would you thank them for their hard work, write words of encouragement, maybe even…
A Week for Human Rights
It started off on Tuesday, November 8th as my local professional sorority, Kappa Gamma Chi, sponsored Emerson’s First Annual Amnesty International Write-a-Thon. Amnesty International is a global human rights movement,…