Global leaders are failing youth, and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed 60 world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit about the need for urgent action on climate change, warning “we’ll be watching you.” Her assessment was concise, blunt and searing: “People are suffering. People are...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending travel restrictions for citizens of six countries including Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania. Previous orders restricted travel for Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen as well as Chad, North Korea...
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests led to iconic images, like the lone man, his identity unknown, confronting a line of Chinese People’s Liberation Army tanks. The ongoing protests in Hong Kong, which began in 2019, have already lasted more than twice as long as the Umbrella Movement and more than...
Struggle continues: Hong Kong’s lengthy protests since June 2019 provoke police shooting, and Tiananmen Square’s tank man from 1989 still inspires (Source: South China Morning Post)
IRVINE: In 1989, residents of cities across the People’s Republic...
The state once controlled narratives of memorialization, often confined to specific geographic spaces in museums or archives. The world has more technologies than ever before for gathering and conveying evidence of mass atrocities – from the internet and social media to holograms, artificial...
Global grieving; New technologies help museums and individual gather evidence and relay history – Holocaust survivor Sam Harris answered hundreds of questions to help create a hologram; global movement Together We Remember relies on social media to...
中国的领导层过渡是个不透明的过程。权力极大的政治局常务委员会预计在十月公布新任命，主席胡锦涛不再担任中国共产党的总书记，把控制权交给副主席习近平。野心勃勃的重庆市委书记的解职、加上就一个英国商人之死而展开地对他妻子的调查让中国权力交接成为了聚焦点。本期耶鲁全球系列文章分析了中国的内部分歧及其对外交政策的影响。中国领导人大致分成两派：支持社会正义方案的民粹派和支持经济增长的精英派。布鲁金斯学会约翰•桑顿中国中心研究主任李成在上篇中指出中国领导层的三个趋势：领导者没有派系那么强有力；强大的特殊利益侵蚀了管治；以及虽然国家很强大，但执政党仍然软弱。由于缺乏有组织的异议，...
华盛顿：薄熙来，一个富有魅力但野心勃勃的政治局委员，他的下台吸引了无数眼球，而这不过是中国悠长的权力政治史上最新的一页。尽管如此，海外中国分析家普遍的观点因此事而变化极大。在薄熙来危机之前，许多人相信中国政治的制度化得到了充分的发展，可以让即将到来的领导层交接如之前2002年那样平稳有序。现在随着危机的展开，很多人认为薄熙来的解职不过是另一次政治清洗，是险恶的政治斗争一般模式的重现。
这两种观点都可能是非常误导的，...
UNICEF estimates the world has about 650 million females who married under the age of 18. Child marriages not only limit individual human rights, but also perpetuate poverty and inequality for entire communities and countries. Nonyelum A. Ujam, who works with the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a...
Not made in heaven: Nigeria’s child bride with newly married husband; Nigeria’s young girls face a bleak future
ABUJA, NIGERIA: The United Nations International Children’s Education Fund, UNICEF, defines a child as any person below the age of 18...
Women have made great strides in education, employment, politics and equality in general worldwide, but participation in the labor force remains stubbornly below those of men. “By and large, a substantial proportion of mothers withdraw from employment after childbirth,” explains demography expert...
Homebound: Women’s participation in the workplace is growing around the world, but in both advanced and developing nations, some mothers feel pressure to stay at home
NEW YORK: Despite noteworthy progress achieved in gender equality, especially in...
In a book to be published this week, former US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott tells the story of President Bill Clinton’s personal diplomacy in averting a possible nuclear war in South Asia. The conflict began in May 1999, when Pakistani commandos infiltrated the Indian part of Kashmir in...
On the brink of a catastrophe: Indian artillery pound Pakistani infiltrators in the Kargil region of Kashmir. Pakistan was reported to be readying its nuclear weapons until President Clinton intervened
WASHINGTON: During...
