Silly women and their sexual assault. Don’t they know it’s complex?
At a small school in Pennsylvania, students staged a sit-in to protest the way their campus handles rape reports. This piece, from the Philadelphia…
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Postscript: Women in Egypt
I’m slowly catching up on my podcasts. My piece on the Lara Logan media tizzy included a question, “What about Egyptian women in Tahrir?”…
Read MoreOn Reporters and Rape: Three ideas worth rising above the cacophony
There’s been a bevy of people with opinions on Lara Logan’s unfortunate trauma in Egypt. In case you’ve missed it, the chief foreign correspondent…
Read MoreIf you work in human rights, go to this talk
A few years ago, I wrote about Patrick Ball for the Christian Science Monitor. It’s one of my favorite stories, in part because he’s…
Read MoreHappy Birthday 1325, or, Why women in Burundi won’t let me be cynical about (some) UN resolutions
If you’ve never been to a birthday party for a Security Council resolution, well, get out your party shoes. Today is the 10th anniversary…
Read MoreThis weekend, in human rights outrage…
Way up there in Canada…. Half of the sexual assault staff at a Canadian hospital center is sick, or tired — literally — and…
Read MoreAn open application to join Kofi Annan’s speech writing team
Because I’d make a few tweaks to his op-ed on Holocaust education and genocide prevention. I’d clean up some sloppy language and some bad…
Read MoreAfter war, who’s not a ‘vulnerable population’?
I’m up to my ears in UN project reports about peacebuilding activities in various countries, and I continue to see language like this, a…
Read MoreBoozing it up in the ‘third world’?: The mix tape
Update, after I got out from under my rock In one of the very active comments sections on the blogs that have taken this…
Read MoreTastes like terrorism!
“As another day passed with Mr. [Faisal] Shahzad talking to investigators about the car bomb he had admitted driving into Times Square on Saturday,…
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