International Political Will

When you hear “third world labor exploitation,” a few standard images come to mind: sweatshops full of hungry people making Nike tennis shoes 18 hours a day for pennies in Indonesia; young mothers sewing $25 T-shirts for The Gap in return for a few cents in Honduras; children chained to a loom making carpets in [...]

Walking through the streets of Mumbai and trying to avoid beggars can be a daunting task. Most of the really persistent beggars are children - usually no more than 10 years old.
The beggar kids are always extremely dirty with torn clothing, unkempt and matted hair, smears of dirt and grease on their faces, and [...]

The dusty, pot-holed streets of Kabul led to a section of town where the houses morphed from mud-brick structures to multi-story, brightly painted pink, yellow, and green homes with barbed wire-topped security walls.
I was tracking down the head of the Islamic Scholars Council, who was a supporter of progressive women’s rights based on the [...]