Last week, the Michigan state Senate passed an anti-bullying bill, but minutes before they voted, Republican lawmakers inserted special language into the bill to create a huge loophole stating: Bullying done because of a “sincerely held religious or moral conviction”…

Hank Skinner is scheduled to die on November 9. But the state of Texas may execute him without even conducting DNA tests on all of the evidence from his trial, despite a decade of requests from Hank and his lawyers. Hank…

Juan E. Méndez is a well-known Argentinian human rights activist. His stellar life and career includes representing political prisoners, protecting migrant worker’s rights, enduring torture and administrative detention, being adopted by Amnesty International as a “Prisoner of Conscience,” and being…

There’s a desperate search on for a female university student in Nigeria. Some want to silence her. Others want to protect her. On August 16, the unidentified woman was gang-raped by five male students at Abia State University — for…

Hotel room at a Singapore resort: $253. Discounted tickets to watch wild dolphins suffer in captivity: Priceless. MasterCard is offering discounted tickets to the infamous Resorts World Sentosa, a resort in Singapore that recently kidnapped 27 wild dolphins for an…

Monsanto the corporation responsible for producing roughly 90% of genetically modified seeds around the globe, is working to bring their new, GMO “sweet corn” to a grocery store aisle or farmer’s market near you. Unlike Monsanto’s other GMO crops —…

Troy Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for twenty years despite strong evidence of his innocence. His execution date is now scheduled for Wednesday, September 21, 2011. He has a hearing in front of the Georgia Board of Pardons…

Hundreds of foreign exchange students paid $3,000-$6,000 each to come to the U.S. this summer for what they thought would be a cultural exchange program to learn English and experience American culture. Instead, they found themselves working in deeply exploitative…

From 2004 through 2009, more than 1,000 teachers were recruited from abroad — most from the Philippines — to fill gaps in math, science, and special education in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Each paid thousands of dollars to recruiters and…

What do you want the future of feminism to look like? Gloria Steinem posed the question. What do YOU think and what are you going to do to make it happen? • Gloria Steinem • On Monday, August 15th at…