Gay rights with global warming and geoengineering
Global warming is real, there are clear evidences, but not everyone believes. Geoengineering, a scientific answer that offer temporary solutions, to prevent temperature rise of the earth to an irreversible level, is facing opposition because of its risks. Gay rights in our present world is touchy, many are revealing, expecting acceptance, for further legalization. The [...]
Guatemalan Femicide: The Legacy of Repression and Injustice
One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military’s 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against the country’s Mayan population is the strategy of targeting women with violence. Rape, mutilation, sexual slavery, forced abortion, and sterilizations were just some of the sadistic tools used in a systematic practice of state-sponsored terror to crush the surviving [...]
IRAQ: LGBT community faces serious human rights abuses
Mr. U. Rosenthal, Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands Dear Minister Rosenthal, I am writing to you regarding the section in your December 2011 Netherlands Country Report on Iraq about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. While I appreciates your government’s discussion of Iraqis identifying as LGBT in the report, I am concerned that the [...]
The Grey Profile of Chennai City
There are many things that go unreported in Chennai city. This southern metropolitan is shedding its conservative profile and undergoing some changes in life style orientation, that so far have been hidden inside the closet. Thanks to the efforts being made by some non governmental organization that such issues are being made public and since [...]
Clinton’s Africa vision is out of focus, say critics
On Monday, October 3, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will meet with 40 women entrepreneurs from 36 African nations participating in the 2011 African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program, at the U.S. Department of State. The African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program is a people-to-people exchange that connects women and enhances their ability to be key economic [...]
