A year ago, the Russian Federation committed egregious human rights violations by targeting the LGBT Russian Community. The government cast-away and abducted gay Russian men so they could be sent to Chechnya, where they were written off from mainstream society, tortured, and killed. This ‘cleansing’ of sorts was referred to […]
On February 9th, 2018, the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang began. During the commencement ceremonies, an event took place that baffled and amazed many – North and South Korean athletes walked out together under a unification flag. In addition, North Korean athletes were added to roasters to compete alongside South Korean […]
On 17 December, two suicide bombers attacked a church named Bethel Memorial Methodist in Pakistan. A week before Christmas, there were at least 400 people in attendance at the church. The assailant detonated a bomb he was carrying inside his vest near the doors of the entrance to the main […]
North Korea has recently launched a missile capable of hitting the east coast of the United States as some kinds of means of intimidation to the U.S. government. The U.S. and North Korea have long been in a back and forth concerning the use of nuclear weapons. However, after the […]
The violence in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has been ongoing since its independence from the U.K. in the late 1940s. Since being granted sovereignty, the nation has been plagued by conflict traps which prevented it from establishing a stable government and presence both domestically and internationally. There has been […]
After a September 24th election left German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a minority party, it was clear that the German government needed to reflect the changing mentalities of the German people. Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) lost 65 seats in the Parliament to the alt-right party, […]
In a recent attack on a Syrian market on 14 November, at least 53 have been killed. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, three air strikes hit a market in Atareb, a Western province of Aleppo. It is unclear who committed the act, with blame fluctuating between Syrian […]
Catalonia, a region of Spain, has recently declared itself independent from the European Union territory due to a referendum passed on October 1st. The decision demonstrated great support from the people of Catalonia—who boast of their own language, culture, and tradition separate from that of Spain—to become their own sovereign […]
