This past Saturday, December 10, marked the 63rd annual celebration of Human Rights Day. Sixty-three years ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. The declaration as summed up by the United Nations states that, “fundamental human rights and freedoms all men and women, everywhere in the world, are entitled, [...]
This is a guest post by Students for CEDAW co-founders Lara Yeo & Alex Hayes. For more information find them on Facebook or email them at studentsforcedaw[at]gmail.com. President Carter signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1980. Today, the United States (US) remains one of [...]
Human trafficking is often disregarded in conversation about major national issues. Americans seem to view it as an issue of foreign and under developed countries when, according to Citizens Against Human Trafficking, it is actually the 3rd largest and greatest flourishing criminal industry globally. In fact, the official web resource to combat human trafficking proposes [...]
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