Pakistan moves to expel 18 international NGOs. While the specific reasons for the expulsions remain obscure, human rights within the country are clearly at grave risk.
The Dakota Access pipeline protests began with a Standing Rock Sioux youth-led petition called Rezpect Our Water. Their earnest protest became an international cause célèbre and a celebrity cause.
Attempts by authorities to repress nonviolent resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline sparks a renewal of Native American activism and causes an outpouring of global support for the gathering protestors.
Maziar Bahari’s mural project is meant to bring attention to the 30 journalists currently imprisoned in Iran.
When the unbelievably corrupt FIFA signed up as a funder of the Clinton Global Initiative, along with a much larger funder—the government of Qatar, which was angling to host the World Cup and sacrificing the health and safety of migrant workers in doing so—surely the Clinton Foundation should have harbored an inkling of concern.
