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Before you pay to volunteer abroad, think of the harm you might do
Ian Birrell
The Observer, Sunday 14 November 2010By 10pm, the aptly named Bar Street is pulsating with tourists drawn to Siem Reap by the famous Cambodian ruins of Angkor Wat. As hip-hop blares from clubs, children playing traditional instruments are led along by men with placards ( Read more... )

The year 1492 was a big one for Christendom. The fortress of Granada fell to the combined forces of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile. Driving the last of the invading Islamic horde out of Spain and returning the peninsula to its original owners ( Read more... )

The white American infatuation with Mexican stuff, if not Mexicans themselves, has been an object of fascination to me for a number of years, and I've become quite an expert. Most white people gravitate towards Dia de los Muertos stuff (kitschy! edgy! vaguely but not uncomfortably spiritual!). It's not exactly perplexing; white people love making ( Read more... )

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40-50% of All Indian Women have been Sterilized. Evidence of massive sterilization of American Indians has been revealed by the (GAO) General Accounting Office in a study for ex-Senator James Abourezk from South Dakota in 1976. Most of these women were sterilized without their informed consent. The Same GOA Report also revealed that Indian Children ( Read more... )

I have been stewing over the implications of TIME’s decision to run the face of a mutilated Afghani woman on the cover of the magazine to raise awareness about women’s rights in Afghanistan. Many have applauded TIME’s decision to do this calling it courageous and effective, all while recognizing this is also a cheap plea for magazine sales. I am ( Read more... )

If there is one area which I feel needs the most intervention on the behalf of the feminist community, I feel that it would be the sexism in the impoverished, developing nations in Africa. Although it is not often listed among the plights suffered by this region, sexism is widespread and often extreme. While this is not at all to say that the ( Read more... )