Back in February, UNICEF Zimbabwe issued a press release to bring attention to Zimbabwe's education crisis. An astonishing 66 to 70 percent of schools were closed throughout the country, and schools that were open saw an attendance rate of only 33 per...]]> The U.S. Department of Labor has released a list of goods produced by child and slave labor, targeted at Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Although this list was authorized in 2005 with the passage of the Trafficking Vict...]]> Light skin is a sign of beauty, status and worth around the world, making the skin-lightening industry a highly lucrative one. In India, where the industry is worth approximately $318 million, the group Women of Worth (WOW) created the dynamic campaig...]]> Last month, Sudanese journalist and UN officer Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein made headlines when she was arrested for wearing pants under the nation's indecency law and chose to fight in court, facing forty lashes. Her trial resumed on Sept. 7, during which...]]> After much controversy, President Obama delivered his speech to children as they entered school after Labor Day weekend. He had a number of important points, including: Every single one of you has something that you're good at. Every single one of...]]> Oxfam International is bringing attention to the alarming state of Somali refugee camps in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, calling them "barely fit for humans." Plagued by violence and drought, thousands of Somalis flee their homes every month, but refug...]]> The U.S. Department of Labor announced that unemployment rate for the month of August was 9.7 percent -- the highest it has been in 26 years. Job losses for the month reached 216,000. The statistics seem discouraging, but in reality, the news is mixed...]]> Former U.S. soldier Steven Dale Green received life in jail on Friday for raping and murdering 14 year old Abeer al-Janabi, as well as murdering her mother, father and six year old sister in Baghdad. According to Al-Jazeera, Green led a group of U.S....]]> On August 26, twelve members of the Awá indigenous group, including five children, were killed in the Colombian department of Nariño. Attacks have gone on since September 2008, claiming the lives of over 50 members of the Awá comm...]]> Kim Dae-jung, former President of South Korea, passed away on August 18 from heart failure after months of struggling with pneumonia.After surviving a death sentence and various assassination attempts by military dictators, he was the first opposition...]]>