Tatenda Chivata, a 16-year old from Zimbabwe’s Mutoko rural district, was suspended from school for an entire three-month academic term after he was found with a used condom stashed in his schoolbag. Regerai Chigodora, a 34-year-old prisoner at a jail…
In October of 2013, 73-year-old Congressman John Lewis was arrested on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during a rally to spur action on an immigration bill. It was hardly the first time that the Georgia Democrat had been picked…
Freetown: Sierra Leone’s main opposition party has called for an indefinite campaign of civil disobedience if the country’s sacked vice-president is not reinstated within a week, a party leader said on Sunday. Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie, Secretary-General of the…
Before the Zapatista uprising, women in the indigenous villages of Chiapas were often forced into arranged marriages, had little access to birth control, and domestic violence was generally considered normal and acceptable. A woman could not leave the house without…
Martin Luther King Jr. liked to joke that I was the one member of his legal team who would help him go to jail rather than using all the tricks of the trade to keep him out. I’d originally connected…
Abraham Lincoln and Mohandas Gandhi were arguably the two giant personalities of the nineteenth and twentieth century respectively. Their lives are a study in differing, often contrasting styles of leadership, even though both sought similar goals. It is a…
A family of six was killed on the morning hours of February 17th, 2015 in Conceicacao de Araguaia, in the northern Brazilian state of Para. Two adults, Washington Silva and Lidiane Souza as well their three children and nephew ages…
Arrest of a nonviolent leader in the Maldives challenges the international community ‘Terrorism’ charges might give the government leverage against a bid made by Nasheed to participate in any official political action at any point in the future. What…
