Gender-Based Violence and its Patriarchal Roots: Case in Kenya
Posted OnOctober 30, 2011 byWe hear of the atrocities committed in Uganda, Darfur and Somalia but very little about Kenya; except perhaps that it is in a better shape than most of its African neighbors. That changed when in May 13, Huffington Post published its article about “Beading,” stunning readers with its graphic details of the sinister cultural tradition…Read More…
The challenges of large-scale agriculture
Posted OnSeptember 15, 2011 byBy Rozina Kanchwala. Two factors at play require us to pay serious attention to the issue of food security: • A growing population and its growing food demand • Increasing uncertainty of environmental changes Both of these factors can be addressed by organic agriculture. This is the way forward, not large-scale modern agriculture that currently…Read More…
Dictators and Democracies for Health
Posted OnMay 17, 2011 byPolitics can have serious consequences for health. We need look no further than the US legislature for examples of the politics of health. The recent deeply partisan budget cuts threatened women’s health across the country and debates over the Health Care Bill easily demonstrates a democracy’s inability to provide basic health for everyone in its…Read More…
Story of the Refugee Crisis: The Delayed Effects of Poor Nutrition
Posted OnApril 20, 2011 by“In Pakistan and Palestine, un-dernutrition and micronutrient defi-ciencies are very prevalent, whereas Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, Soma-lia, Sudan, and Yemen suffer fromrampant and severe child and mater-nal nutritional deficiencies” (Habib, Zein and Ghanawi, 2010). What happens when immigrants and refugees from these locations come to the United States or another more developed nation? Popkin (2006) gives…Read More…
Women as Perpetrators
Posted OnMarch 10, 2011 byAssigning gender identities to perpetrators of wartime sexual violence is a problematic affair. The evolution of modern warfare has ensured that the attributes that have traditionally distinguished men and women are becoming increasingly blurred. Gender can be described as a social construct that is influenced by a variety of different factors; political and economic in/stability,…Read More…