Human trafficking is the second largest illegal business in the world with estimates of 30 billion dollars plus per year worldwide.
In the collective imagination, the term human trafficking most often conjures visions of exotic people from foreign countries being forced into...
Introduction (Launching 1/29)
Welcome to the course & How it works
Week 1. Human Rights (Launching 1/29)
Women’s Rights = Human Rights
Son preference and demography
Week 2. Education
Education as the 'magic' intervention
Learning vs. schooling
Week 3: Adolescence & Vulnerability
Female genital cutting/mutilation
Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS
Week 4: Reproductive Health and Rights
Early marriage and early childbirth
Reproductive health, sexuality, maternity contraception
Week 5: Violence in...
Introduction by Karen Lewis, Ending Violence Against Women Committee Co-Chair and AODVC Liaison
Following my article in the February 2015 Human Rights Team Bulletin regarding sexual abuse/harassment in the military, I happened to make friends with a survivor of sexual harassment in the military and hear her story. Since then, we've had a few conversations about this culture of acceptance...
FAWCO's Human Rights Team presents
THE STRENGTH OF A WOMAN TOUR: RWANDA
Since the genocide that tore Rwanda apart twenty years ago, this tiny African country has become a model for the involvement of women in all levels of government. Women have been at the heart of the country's recovery. While over 60% of the Rwandan Parliament is made up...
Genocide. What a strange thing it is. The need to wipe a group of people off the face of the earth! What a barbaric concept! Yet the last century has seen multiple genocides that have resulted in the loss of millions and millions of lives in the most horrific ways. We imaginative humans seem to come up with ever more ingenious ways...