Human Rights

With the recent decisions of no indictment involving the police officers responsible for the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner,...

In 2013, Florida lawmakers chose to implement the Normalcy Act; a law that requires their state government to allow foster...

Brittany Maynard via Facebook On November 1, 2014, Brittany Maynard will die. However, her death is being planned on her...

Frank Van Den Bleeken via @BBC Frank Van Den Bleeken is currently serving a life sentence in Belgium for sexual...

I have often expressed my intellectual, personal and ethical discomfort with the extensive 'subjectification', more trendily termed "participation', of poor...

In the UK, 89,528 social workers are getting ready to re-register with the regulator for the protected title of social...

Mike Jr. Brown via Facebook Recently, two unarmed young black men were killed by police officers in a St. Louis...

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the latest in a long line of sports "stars" to come out as gay in...

Too many people are incarcerated in the United States, particularly people of color. With nearly 1.5 million Americans in prison...

Being blind to gender and sexuality seems to be a common theme within what makes a queer a queer.  There...

@FLOTUS/Michelle Obama It is critically important that social workers remain at the forefront of preventing the abuse and exploitation of...

Over two billion people in the world are unable to secure either access to safe water, or enough water to...

From gay veterans being banned from the St. Patrick’s Day parade to a father killing his own daughter because she was...

Harm reduction seeks to maintain people’s safety and minimize death, disease and injury from high-risk behaviour. The reduction of harmful...

Anti-FGM campaigners Leyla Hussein and Ifrah Ahmed will be amongst a host of speakers set to talk about the challenges...

The recent tragedy of the MH370 flight has triggered an unprecedented international search. The world’s thoughts are with the passengers and...

Yesterday, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service announced that it will be prosecuting two men over allegations of female genital mutilation...

Winterbourne View care home in the United Kingdom made headlines in  May 2011 when the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC,...

It is a question that is often asked of me nearly every single day, and one that I am not...

Oscar-winning picture of the year 12 Years a Slave by accomplished British Director Steve McQueen attempts to tell how the...