This essay treats child sex trafficking and child marriage as a single moral catastrophe: the reduction of a child to a commodity, a transaction, a means to someone else’s end. Both destroy the very conditions under which choice, dignity, and personhood become possible — and both survive on our averted eyes. What is at stake…

Introduction On October 7, 2023 Hamas launched a mass attack on communities and military bases in southern Israel. Over 1,100 people were killed on this one day, a majority of them civilians, and over 250 civilians and soldiers were taken hostage. Israel’s airstrikes in the Gaza Strip began that same evening, and a largescale ground…

Executive Summary: Morocco has formalized a dynamic development model over the past quarter of a century to guide sustainable growth in rural and urban areas. However, its inadequate implementation, particularly in rural areas, does not reflect the model’s excellent quality, underscoring the need for local community management and decentralization. Intractable rural poverty is more a…

Abstract In December 2024, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian NGO Bosanskohercegovačka inicijativa žena (BHWI) developed I Want to Live, a participatory theatre initiative involving migrant women from Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Türkiye living in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through theatre, lullabies, song, somatic movement, and other verbal and non-verbal forms of expression, the performance brought different…

I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND We are told we live in the golden age of storytelling. Never before have more stories reached more people with greater immediacy. A woman describing her displacement from a conflict zone can reach millions in real time. A survivor of gender-based violence can publish her testimony without an editorial intermediary. Documentary…

Introduction The Treaty of Versailles opened an age of broken promises. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points elevated self-determination into a universal principle, and the world’s stateless peoples believed it applied to them. The Kurds were betrayed and paid the highest price. Today roughly 40 million Kurds — the largest stateless nation on earth — live in…

INTRODUCTION In an era where the constitution, legislative reforms, judiciary restructuring, and the roll-out of constitutional courts are under review in Botswana, there is an undeniable need for massive change, solutions, redress, and most importantly, solidarity and targeted interventions in protecting the rights of survivors of violence. Women and girls undisputably continue to suffer the…

Shiler Sido was born in Afrin, in the olive-covered hills of northern Syria, where 95 percent of her neighbors were Kurdish, and a fragile experiment in pluralism briefly took root. Then came 2018, Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch, and what she describes not as counter-terrorism but as demographic engineering: 18 million olive trees felled, 10,000 homes…

Israel has betrayed the very values that made the Jewish people the world’s conscience for millennia—values forged in our own persecution, meant to bind us forever to the defense of the persecuted. Instead, from the occupation of 1967 to the genocide now consuming Gaza and Israel’s inhumane crimes against the Palestinian people in the West…