A round up of this week’s news. Violence continues in Syria despite UN ceasefire, airstrikes on the border between Sudan and South Sudan leave thousands displaced, India and Pakistan exchange nuclear-capabale ballistic missile tests, Western powers move forward with sanctions against Iran, and Egypt allows Mubarak’s last PM to run…
When WNR’s Amy DiPierro isn’t reporting about international conflict, she moonlights as a ukulele columnist for Swarthmore’s Daily Gazette. This week, the topics Amy covers for her two favorite news organizations share some surprising overlap.
Issues involving violations of human rights are almost always more complicated then they first appear. Campaigns like KONY 2012 and situations like the conflict in Syria seem to offer clear courses of action, but how well are they represented and addressed by those involved in the solutions? WNR’s Collin Smith…
By now, most people have probably heard of claimed Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, thanks to a video produced by the advocacy organization, Invisible Children. However, the excitement and discussion that surrounded the video have died down in recent weeks. Klara Aizupitis leads us through the responses to Invisible Children’s Kony…
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CAROLINE BATTEN, WNR: When Radhika Sainath filled out her visa to visit Bahrain, she was faced with an unusual problem. RADHIKA SAINATH: There’s no activism box to tack off on the tourist visa. BATTEN: So Sainath, an American attorney, identified herself simply as a tourist, a decision which Bahraini authorities…
On April 4th, the United States announced a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed. Saeed is the head of Jama’at-ud-Da’wah, the charitable wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the organization thought to be responsible for the 26/11/08 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. This bounty comes three and a half years after the horrors in…