Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Issues
Microlending has become popular as a way to alleviate poverty through economic empowerment. Although there is no explicit international right to be free from poverty, poverty significantly hinders the enjoyment of recognized human rights found in international instruments such as…
By Doug Keillor
Haitian NGOs and community organizations would like to be granted greater access to the earthquake reconstruction planning process. Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, the United States, the United Nations, and some 10,000 international NGOs…
By Doug Keillor
In January 2010, Google announced that its email servers at its corporate headquarters in the United States had been the target of a sophisticated cyber attack, and that dozens of accounts belonging to human rights activists and…
By Doug Keillor
International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) that work in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) have come to an impasse with the Israeli government. Over one year ago, the Israeli government began making changes to the process of granting work…
By Doug Keillor
President Obama announced in December 2009 that the United States would send an additional 30,000 troops and increase civilian support and financial assistance to Afghanistan. However, NGOs that provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan have…
By Doug Keillor
The Chinese government has only recently taken steps to address the nation’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. Earlier efforts focused primarily on foreigners, because the government believed that HIV/AIDS only affected homosexuals and that homosexuality was limited in China. China’s…
By Doug Keillor
Approximately 1.2 million children worldwide are victims of child trafficking each year. Children are trafficked primarily for purposes of domestic labor and sexual exploitation. Although the majority of countries where child trafficking occurs have outlawed the practice,…
by Doug Keillor
The recent 62nd Annual Department of Public Information Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference focused on the particularly timely issue of peace and disarmament. Recent international headlines have been full of international arms proliferation issues: the latest negotiations…
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