COLORLINES - Global Affairs

Louisiana’s Trafficked Filipino Teachers Take Recruiter to Court

by Julianne Hing on August 13 2010, 2:51PM

Faced intimidation and exorbitant fees, according to suit.

Topics: Global Affairs, Schools & Youth

Wyclef Can’t Serenade Critics

by Naima Ramos-Chapman on August 9 2010, 6:53PM

The stars have already weighed in on the singer’s run for office. Now we want your thoughts.

Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti

U.S. Makes First Appearance at Hiroshima Bombing Memorial

by Daisy Hernandez on August 6 2010, 5:24PM

Obama sends the U.S. ambassador to mark the bombing’s 65th anniversary.

Topics: Global Affairs

Dispatch from Haiti: Wondering About Wyclef

by Ruxandra Guidi on August 6 2010, 2:05PM

The young voters “Clef” hopes to lead aren’t yet sure they can follow him—or any other politician.

Topics: Dispatches, Global Affairs, Haiti

Naomi Campbell Didn’t Know What a Blood Diamond Was

by Julianne Hing on August 5 2010, 4:40PM

She also didn’t know what Liberia was, according to court testimony in the trial of the country’s former dictator.

Topics: Global Affairs

Wyclef’s Serious About Haiti Presidential Bid

by Jamilah King on August 4 2010, 3:09PM

He’s expected to announce tomorrow. Controversy to ensue shortly thereafter.

Topics: Global Affairs

Time Pictures Afghan Women, Obscures Realities of Endless War

by Michelle Chen on August 3 2010, 10:22AM

Just plaster a disfigured female victim on the cover, and presto—instant war morale!

Topics: Global Affairs, Media, On Gender

President Wyclef? Singer Considers New Haiti Campaign

by Jamilah King on July 27 2010, 4:00PM

One of Haiti’s most beloved native sons is considering a run for the country’s often contentious top office. Representatives for Wyclef Jean, the former Fugees frontman who was born in the country but infamously grew up in Brooklyn, said in…

Topics: Global Affairs

IMF Cancels Haiti’s $268 Million Debt

by Jamilah King on July 23 2010, 10:41AM

The move may allow the country to start the arduous process of long-term structural readjustment.

Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti

Asylum System May Open Door for Femicide Survivors

by Michelle Chen on July 21 2010, 9:02AM

A narrow window to humanitarian relief could be opening in the for survivors of femicide in the U.S. asylum system.

Topics: Global Affairs, On Gender

Passport Flap Keeps Iroquois Out of World Lacrosse Championships

by Michelle Chen on July 17 2010, 6:31AM

The travel restrictions that barred the Iroquois team from a major tournament in England marked the limitations, and the vitality, of tribal sovereignty.

Topics: Global Affairs

Haiti Gets Shortchanged on Aid

by Julianne Hing on July 16 2010, 2:52PM

Since a U.N. donors conference in March, when countries pledged over $5.3 billion to help Haiti, only $534 million has been delivered.

Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti

Argentina Legalizes Gay Marriage

by Naima Ramos-Chapman on July 15 2010, 3:26PM

The country passes marriage equality law while the U.S. mainstream gay rights movement lags on.

Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Global Affairs

In Haiti, a Miami Transplant Seeks New Horizons

by Michelle Chen on July 13 2010, 1:33PM

Shooby Leroy Jean-Pierre finds despair and opportunity in earthquake-stricken Leogane.

Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti, Immigration

“Culture” Cop-Out Won’t Stop Rape in Eastern Congo

by Michelle Chen on July 13 2010, 9:36AM

The brutal war in eastern Congo has become synonymous with rape as a military tactic. Sensationalism combines with subrosa racism to dull the international response.

Topics: Global Affairs, On Gender

Haitian Moms Still Need Health Care

by Michelle Chen on July 7 2010, 1:05PM

Families may still be struggling for food and shelter after the earthquake, but their need for everyday preventive health care is no less profound.

Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti, On Gender

Naomi Campbell Wants No Part in Locking Up a War Criminal

by Daisy Hernandez on July 6 2010, 10:53AM

It sounds like the plot line for an action film. A warlord, then actually the head of an African state, is at a party at Nelson Mandela’s house. He meets a supermodel and is so taken by her that he…

Topics: Global Affairs

Remembrance: Soweto Massacre and Bloody Sunday

by Michelle Chen on June 16 2010, 9:43AM

This week brings somber remembrances of two acts of massive brutality that occurred about a generation ago on opposite ends of the hemisphere. Both incidents exposed the shame of racial or ethnic strife under colonization, both galvanized radical social movements…

Topics: Global Affairs

Mail Order Wombs: Outsourcing Birth to India

by Michelle Chen on June 15 2010, 10:10AM

So much of America’s economic activity takes place on faraway shores, from call centers in Mumbai to sweatshops in Shanghai. Still, you’d think that making a baby would be one job that’s hard to offshore. But today, for a fee,…

Topics: Global Affairs, Health

U.S. Won’t Support UN investigation of Flotilla Raid

by Seth Freed Wessler on June 11 2010, 7:14PM

Nearly two weeks after Israel’s deadly raid on a flotilla of humanitarian ships intent on breaking the blockade of Gaza, the United States continues to send mixed messages in response. Pres. Obama decided this week to send $400 million in…

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