As Sunday, 6 August marked the 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the Conference on Disarmament held discussions around the impact of the nuclear attacks in Japan and the current threat of nuclear warfare. As the global community’s only multilateral disarmament negotiation forum, the Conference on Disarmament takes place
On Sunday, 9 July, supporters from over seventy countries across the globe joined marches in their own communities to speak out against the ongoing violence in Haiti and to unite around a solitary mission to help the country work towards peace. Gangs have a longstanding presence in Haiti but gang-related
The International Justice Mission (IJM) works to rescue trafficked children and unite them with their families, yet some issues have been raised in relation to their recent work in West Africa. Last fall in Mogyinga, a tiny village in northern Ghana, four children were forcibly taken from their homes at
Historically, agriculture in the United States has been a white, male-dominated industry, and many farms across the country have been passed down through generations, sustained by tradition. According to the Department of Agriculture’s farming census in 2014, around 92 percent of farmers were white and around 86 percent were male.
While Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, is celebrated annually on the 19th of June, it only became a U.S. federal holiday two years ago when President Biden signed a bill to distinguish Juneteenth as an official federal holiday. The day holds great literal and symbolic
As wildfires continue to burn across Canada, smoke continues to drift south, covering the northeastern United States in a smoky reminder of the climate crisis at hand. Lightening, extreme heat, and drought are all contributing factors of these fires, causing them to rapidly multiply in size and intensity. Over four
The G20 Tourism Working Group met in Srinagar, the largest city in the Kashmir region, from 22–24 May. The meeting belongs to a series of gatherings held before the G20 summit scheduled to take place in New Delhi during September. As an intergovernmental forum consisting of nineteen nations and the
As a direct result of the long-standing drought in Kenya and its surrounding countries in the Horn of Africa, human-wildlife conflict has escalated significantly in the area. Just last week, ten lions were killed in Kenya, including Africa’s oldest known lion. Nineteen-year-old Loonkiito was speared as he ventured out of
On Monday October 10th, a group of government officials from Montenegro and Croatia gathered at the site of a former detention camp near Kotor, Montenegro, to unveil a memorial plaque commemorating the Croatian prisoners of war and civilians who were held at the facility. Six former inmates of the Morinj
