Two months ago the increasing number of children attempting to migrate into the United States captured the attention of US…
Seattle hosts a gathering of Mujeres Adelante, in English ‘Women Forward,’ a joint program of the Seattle International Foundation (a Humanosphere sponsor) and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues aimed at fighting violence and empowering women.
The debate over immigration is once again taking off in the United States. The sudden influx of more than 57,000…
To be a poor woman with an unwanted pregnancy in El Salvador is to be at the convergence of misfortune. Abortion has been entirely illegal in El Salvador, without exception, since 1998. Such bans do not result in fewer abortions, of course, just more clandestine and unsafe procedures.
Catastrophe. Catastrophe. That was the word Dr. Herbert Betancourt used when I asked him Tuesday what impact the shortfall in…
It’s kind of a cliche to say disease knows no borders, but sometimes you have to state the obvious. El…