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Women Challenge Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church
If ever there were doubt about the relationship between the Catholic Church's spectacular failure to address the clerical child sex abuse crisis and the church's glaring system of gender …
A New Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has developed a new international measure of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI – for the 20th Anniversary edition …
News in Brief: Obama to Back Business Tax Breaks With Stimulus Package, and More …
Obama to Back Business Tax Breaks With Stimulus Package
In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Radio Evolves Into Powerful Mouthpiece
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti — A white sun beat high over Port-au-Prince as Orpha Dessources stepped from her tarpaulin newsroom into the city’s biggest slum, with a question no one wanted …
In Europe, a Lesson in Contrasts
It is strangely comforting to see that the United States is not alone as it struggles in its morass of failed fiscal policy. P. O'Neill, a regular contributor to …
Pakistan’s Floods Leave Afghan Refugees Down and Out
Peshawar, Pakistan - When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen ill, many Afghan …
Mozambique Bread Riots May Be Warning Sign on African Food Security
Nairobi, Kenya - I have a supreme conviction that global food markets are but the perturbation of a butterflys's wing away from a serious tipping point. In fact, I …
Japan Convicts Greenpeace’s “Tokyo Two” for Whaling Investigation
Tokyo - A Greenpeace effort to expose what it sees as widespread corruption in Japan's government-subsidized whaling industry ended on Monday with two of its activists convicted of theft …
Is Defaulting on the National Debt on the Table?
In an interview last week, Rep. Chris Van Hoellen, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, persistently refused to take cuts to Social Security off the table. He …
Petraeus: Dove World Outreach Center’s “Burn a Koran Day” Endangers Troops
The Dove World Outreach Center's plans to burn Korans has prompted protests in Kabul and elsewhere around the globe. The United States' top commander in Afghanistan has warned that …