Although homosexuality is criminalized in 80 countries, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 is the most egregious attempt to sanction homophobia and threaten the human rights of all its citizens. Here are ten ways to oppose this legislation and stand up for human rights wherever you are.
Anna Momigliano : Feminism & Women
To consider honor killing within Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence perpetrated in the Western world.
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
How far have women come if a country like Canada permits a father to imprison his daughter in the cage of Saudi laws?
Nancy Murray : Middle East
Later this month thousands of international solidarity activists will take part in the Gaza Freedom March to end Israel's blockade. They deserve your support.
Ted Conover : Non-Fiction
Sister Ping turned a variety store in New York's Chinatown into a lucrative business by making it a headquarters for human smuggling.
Antony Loewenstein : Australia
Over the past few months, Australia has shown the world how not to manage asylum seekers.
Noy Thrupkaew : Feminism & Women
The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims' needs.
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
If women's equality is the cause of our time, we'll get further by acknowledging it's a challenge no country has fully met than by framing it as a Western crusade.
Noy Thrupkaew : Protestantism & Protestants
Do brothel raids help trafficking victims escape abuse, or skirt the reality that makes recovery so difficult for the "rescued?"
John Dugard : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
There is now sufficient evidence to charge Israel with war crimes for its actions in Gaza. Why is Obama silent?
Peru's disgraced former president becomes the first democratically elected head of state to be extradited, tried and convicted of human rights crimes.
The human cost of Bush's war: 1 million dead. 4.5 million displaced. 1 million to 2 million widows. 5 million orphans.
After eight years of being sidelined by the Bush administration, many in notoriously apolitical professions are ready to stand up and be counted on the social and ethical implications of their work.
In the end, Harold Pinter devoted himself to defining "the real truth of our lives and our societies." Now that he's gone, his twenty-nine plays will continue that rude, honorable and turbulent work.
Barbara Crossette : United Nations
Which idea of human rights will prevail: Western notions of freedom from fear or poorer nations' insistence on freedom from want?
Michael Ratner & Jules Lobel : Guantanamo Bay
Shutting down Guantánamo is long overdue. We shouldn't recreate it by another name.
President-elect Obama speaks with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft about the need to restore America's moral standing in the world.
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