Religious Freedom
Religious Liberty vs. Civil Rights: Is There a Victor?
An article featured on The Mercury News explains the U.S. Democrats’ efforts to amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in order to provide more protection and anti-discrimination efforts for gay, lesbian, and transgender people. The act they propose, called the Do Not Harm Act, will change the RFRA act so that religious freedom rights will […]
Human Rights
SheSees Providing Vision Care to Women
The Fred Hollows Foundation, a non-profit organization based on Australia, has created a new initiative to focus on women’s eye health and prevent avoidable blindness called SheSees. Why specifically women’s healthcare? The Fred Hollows Foundation addresses avoidable blindness for all people around the world, but this initiative specifically focuses on women because of a gender […]
Mother’s day is celebrated across cultures in some way or the other. Though highly commercialized, our culture seems to be in need of this day as it might be the only occasion for some moms to hear from their children. While families and organizations have their own way of celebrating this day, we do it […]
We processed with weekend fatigue. Gathering whatever strength we had left, we encouraged one another through smiles that concealed our inner struggle. But when we reached our spot, lo and behold, the sight of a notice was enough to give everyone a boost of energy for the rest of the day. It read “We’re moving.” […]
Abortion
El mito del “millennial egoísta” y la juventud que se levantó por una causa: La Defensa de la Vida.
Una valiente apuesta en año electoral. El pasado sábado 28 de Abril del presente año se llevó acabo en la Ciudad de México la marcha más importante de nuestro país por la defensa de la vida y la dignidad humana desde la concepción hasta su término natural, sin interrupción. La cita fue temprano, Voluntarios, sociedad […]
Human Rights
Technology Saves Lives
An article from Futurism highlights Emily Kennedy, a young woman who created a software program to detect victims of human trafficking and save them. Usually we might think of technology as the part of the problem for human trafficking, but Kennedy found a way to use online advertisements for sex to detect faces and match […]
Human Rights
Life According to YouTube
A recent article on Elite Daily investigated the life of YouTuber Logan Paul after his video content came under much controversy in December. Paul had posted a video with footage of him in Japan’s Aokigahara forest beside an apparent suicide victim, which was deemed inappropriate by audiences for the obviously disturbing insensitivity to a severe tragedy. […]
Reproductive Health/Family Planning
‘Oral sex is not sex’ says 9th Asian Pacific conference on SRHR
“Undergraduates are now regarding oral.., what I call oral sex as not being sex. This is some other category of behavior.” Says Emeritus Professor Terrence H Hull at the 9th Asia Pacific conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights held in Vietnam in November 2017. Keeping in line with the typical SRHR agenda of […]
Comunidad “El Gallo” , Sierra Gorda de Querétaro, México. Semana Santa 2018. Llegamos a la Sierra aproximadamente a las 6 de la tarde un sábado previo al Domingo de Ramos, calurosos desconocíamos que para llegar a nuestra comunidad asignada para acompañarlos durante las misiones de Semana Santa tendríamos aún que recorrer una hora y media […]
Catholic Teaching
The Role of Men in the Feminist Movement
A surprising topic of conversation at this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was the role of men in the gender equality movement. Amongst discussions of sex trafficking, child marriage, the gender pay gap, sexual harassment in the work place, the #MeToo movement, and others, one topic continued to be brought up […]
