(BY: JENNIFER-LEIGH OPRIHORY & KIRSTIN FAWCETT VIA MEDILL REPORTS – CHICAGO) A movement spreading across Illinois is creating a health care revolution for refugees from countries including Burma, Bhutan and Iraq. For them, a health care safety net is forming in small towns and big cities, alike, where health professionals with a passion for improving
Category: Human Rights
Insights from “Beyond 2015: Targeting Institutional Human Rights Violations” Lecture by Thomas Pogge
By: Hayley Gleeson, WCAS ’13 The Millennium Development Goals have been a hot topic in the world of global health for the past decade. These eight goals, established by the United Nations in 2000, tackle some of the world’s most serious issues of inequality, including hunger, poverty, health and education, aiming to greatly reduce these
Population growth speeds climate change, we are often told. Linking these two phenomena is complicated and could lead to population control strategies that jeopardize human reproductive rights, said Suzanne Petroni in her keynote address at the Northwestern University Summit On Sustainability. “We want to make sure that if we make this connection between slowing population
During times of disorder and conflict, what causes a person to take action for what they believe in, regardless of known dangers, rather than simply standing by? Kristen Renwick Monroe’s book, “Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice,” explores these questions through analysis of the psychological mentality of people during
Bettina Shell-Duncan, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and a Northwestern University alum, shared her research on female genital cutting in an event on campus Wednesday afternoon. The lecture, sponsored by International Program Development and the Program of African Studies, was entitled “Between Law, Religion and Tradition: Contesting Female Genital Cutting