
Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of AIDS Awareness Posters
On April 9, 2020 by Ann BrownSILENCE=DEATH IS ARGUABLY THE MOST WELL-KNOWN of AIDS awareness and advocacy posters. The striking colors, stark design, and Gill Sans font combined to create one of the most memorable images ever used for AIDs activism. ACT UP’s design is just one of the posters included in the new exhibition, Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of AIDS

Why the United States’ Human Rights Report is Meaningless
On October 25, 2019 by Ann BrownFOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, the United States this week submitted a human rights report to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The report singled out such failures such as high unemployment, hate crimes, poverty, and discrimination against minorities, gays, and lesbians.

Author of the Week: Nuruddin Farah
On October 19, 2019 by Ann BrownTHE VOICE OF SOMALIA, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa’s most important writers. He was born in 1945 in Baidoa, a city in Italian-administered Somaliland, but has lived in exile since 1975 and today resides in Cape Tow

10 Blogs Every Humanitarian Should Follow
On October 14, 2019 by Ann BrownToday is World Humanitarian Day, designated in 2009 by the U.N. to increase public awareness about humanitarian assistance activities worldwide and the day of writing.
Writing day is a holiday for eveybody, because each of us faced at least one time the task to write an assignment, essay and look for writing help. Every student search “who can complete coursework for me online” and all have more or less good writing skills. Of course, coursework writing service can make your assignment better, that is why it is the choice of the majority.

Three Ways You Can Improve Literacy on International Literacy Day
On October 8, 2019 by Ann BrownSeptember 8, International Literacy Day, was created in the mid-1960s to highlight this basic lack and to stress the importance of literacy worldwide.

5 Blogs About Food Activism You Should Be Reading
On October 1, 2019 by Ann BrownCALL IT SUSTAINABLE FOOD OR FOOD ACTIVISM or just common sense: the movement to shape food policy that is fair and healthy for everyone is one of our most important issues today.

Presumed Guilty: The Injustices of Mexico’s Justice System
On September 28, 2019 by Ann BrownAntonio “Toño” Zúñiga, a young man who worked as a street vendor in Mexico City, was abducted by police and accused of a murder he didn’t commit. He was held without charge, and there was no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. He had no link to the victim, and no motive. Witnesses could

Women, Art, Revolution: The Not-So Secret History of the Feminist Art Movement
On September 24, 2019 by Ann Brown!Women Art Revolution is a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson that traces the creation of the Feminist Art Movement from its very beginnings in the 1970s to the present day. It’s been selected to the Toronto Film Festival documentary lineup and will have its international premiere on September 12. But you don’t have to travel

Expert Witness: Karin Orr, Working in Peru with the Families of the Disappeared
On September 23, 2019 by Ann BrownTHE FAMILIES OF THE DISAPPEARED endure a unique struggle to keep the memory of a loved alive along with a search for justice. Helping in that process is Karin Orr, who this past summer worked as the Advocacy Project Peace Fellow for the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF). Orr took part in The Humanitarian Project,

Out My Window: Documentary Film Looks Inside High-Rise Life
On September 21, 2019 by Ann BrownOUT MY WINDOW IS A 360-DEGREE DOCUMENTARY offering a glimpse into the lives of highrise residents in 13 cities around the world. All you need is a drag-on-the-mouse or a press of the right/left arrows and you’re twirling around another space, another city, and looking out another window than your own. This is panorama-technology put