Content Warning: this blog post contains potentially-triggering language and discussion of sexual and gender-based violence. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, once termed “the rape capital of the world,” has… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on violence against the Rohingya by the Burmese military; an appeal… Read more…
In mid-December, dozens of Terre Haute, Indiana community members filed into the CANDLES Holocaust Museum to watch a movie. It’s not your typical movie night in Terre Haute, because on… Read more…
A few weeks ago, then-President-Elect Trump’s transition team offered the first inklings of a troubling, if unsurprising, attitude towards international aid. A four-page questionnaire circulated by the administration probed the… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on some promising news of decreasing violence and optimism for the… Read more…
When human rights abuses are committed and civilians are killed, the world looks to American leadership. If the U.S. wishes to maintain its purported status as the leader of the… Read more…
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on Yemen, Syria, and Burma. Though violence and atrocious living conditions… Read more…
Almost a year ago, the Ethiopian government announced the Addis Ababa Master Plan, which proposed an expansion of Ethiopia’s capital into surrounding farms within the Oromia region. The Oromo, who… Read more…
Predicting future atrocities is exceptionally difficult, as one must anticipate reactions from a variety of actors within complex systems. For those of us that use these forecasts to attempt to… Read more…
