Since the start of the year, several Indonesian ministers have made discriminating comments over the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) members. Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Muhammad Nasir, suggested banning the existence of LGBT student groups on university campuses. Furthermore, he pushed for the removal
It was a Monday afternoon on February 1st, 2016 in Tarin Kot, an isolated Afghan town in the southern region of the country with just over 70,000 inhabitants. With school out for the day, ten-year old Wasil Ahmed and his friends were making their way to the town’s local bazaar
Tensions continue to mount between NATO and Russia during the 2016 Munich Security Conference. The Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev openly accused the West of reigniting the Cold War due to NATO’s strengthening of troops deployed along the Russian border and continued disagreement over the Syrian ceasefire. In addition,
