They fled Colombia’s violence and built a city where women call the shots Eidanis Lamadrid (left) sits with her son and two other members of the City of Women in Turbaco, Colombia. The women, displaced by the country’s long-running conflict, helped build the neighborhood with their own hands. Jim Wyss Miami Herald TURBACO, COLOMBIA The [...]

Breaking Free "[Mexico] They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." - Donald Trump These words will not define me. I do not wish to victimize myself - to the contrary, I wish [...]

From child labourer to women's rights defender At the age of 8, Lucrecia Huayhua Choque was sent away by her parents from her Aymara community in the town of Cocapacabana to the city of La Paz (155 km away), where she began looking after an 8-month old girl. "My boss made me sleep under the [...]

Hundreds of nuns trained in Kung Fu are biking the Himalayas to oppose human trafficking Clad in black sweatpants, red jackets and white helmets, the hundreds of cyclists pedaling the treacherously steep, narrow mountain passes to India from Nepal could be mistaken for a Himalayan version of the Tour de France. The similarity, however, ends [...]

Stress Management By Betty Hughes, Ph.D., LMHC Stress. The word itself conjures up thoughts and feelings that most of us would like to erase. Yet it is such a part of modern life that we cannot just make it go away. We can learn to manage it however. It may not be easy, but it [...]

'Better late than never': India's #MeToo moment is here to stay The Rupan Deol Bajaj vs K. P. S. Gill case, also known as the Butt Slapping case, remained in the media limelight for several years when I was a teenager. In this high profile case of the late 1980s, a senior male police officer [...]

Latest U.S. Rhodes scholar class includes more women than ever Education Associated Press · Nov 18, 2018 The latest group of U.S. Rhodes scholars includes 21 women, the most ever in a single Rhodes class, and almost half of the 32 winners are immigrants or first-generation Americans. The Rhodes Trust on Sunday announced the 32 [...]

Communication and Communication Styles Communication style influences the manner that we get information and provide information to one another through our tone and words as well as through our expression, body language and gestures. In the written format communication styles can include anything from books and articles to email, text message, or Instagram. Communication style [...]

LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO AM I! NOVEMBER 26, 2020 IN 2020, STORIESTAGS: ASIA BOOK OF RECORDS, HUMANS OF HYDERABAD, MOTIVATION, TREKKING BY TEAMHOH “I was 3 when I was diagnosed with Nephrotic Syndrome. Overnight, my stomach bloated to thrice its normal size and I was rushed to the hospital immediately. When the doctors examined [...]