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Hollaback is an international movement which believes that street harassment is the most common form of harassment across the globe. It is also that kind of harassment which most people ignore and walk on because it is supposed to be culturally accepted. There are laws for harassment at work or home but not for street harassment. How do you complain [...]

Some Congolese women went to Uganda to join their partners who served in the Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF). They met the men while the UPDF operated in Congo. They were the wives, girlfriends, and concubines of the soldiers. Now left with many children, they have been ‘abandoned in districts surrounding UPDF barracks such as Kotido, Kaboong, [...]

There are two choices by which US juvenile offenders can be admitted: at correctional facilities that offer no specialized therapeutic programs and where troubled boys are locked up, or in any one of the 1,000 treatment programs nationwide such as Counterpoint center for juvenile sex offenders located in Portland, Oregon. Funding is scarce for such [...]

According to a complaint of Amnesty International (AI), women in Iraq suffer from systematic discrimination and violence directed against them specifically because of their gender. AI has also noted that Iraqi law allows ‘honorable motives’ in murder cases of women by their husbands, parents, and teachers. These result in exemption from criminal [...]

Parwin Musthal is a known face on Afghan television. She works in serials and is also seen in numerous advertisements. She has also acted in nearly 20 theatre productions and quite a few movies. But her real life itself turned dramatic and tragic in December. She has had to pay a huge price for her choice of career in entertainment industry in a [...]

Ignoring the warnings of family and friends, Rihanna has not only decided to forgive her boyfriend Chris Brown for leaving her black and blue and bloodied recently (and for which she will not file any charges) but, in her emotional reunion with him while enraptured with love, she also married him in secret. According to information, everything was thought [...]

With the ‘Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks,’ Pablo Neruda takes a fantastic and fictional object such as a mermaid and personifies it at the level of human beings to analyze how man is no higher than the level of animals. A mermaid, fish by nature, is on the same level as man who is likewise an animal. Once again, Neruda has personified the non-human [...]

The R & B singer Chris Brown and pop star Rihanna got back together, apparently in a reconciliation, three short weeks after their widely reported fight that resulted in the female being injured. Their newfound, albeit momentary, love nest is a Miami, Florida house of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, himself once crossing the bounds of law [...]