As Valentine's Day approaches, we celebrate the achievements of another V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. "Eve Ensler, the feminist playwright who wrote 'The Vagina Monologues' and who has worked[...]

"There has been so much injustice and oppression in Iraq, for such a long time. To fight it is almost an obligation."   Houzan Mahmoud was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973. As a Kurd living under the regime of Saddam Hussein, she grew up[...]

We Are All Born Free   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. Composed in response to the horrors of World War II, the purpose of the declaration was to state and[...]

Maureen McLane is the author of two volumes of poems, Same Life (2008) and the newly released World Enough, as well as a prose study, Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species. Formerly the chief[...]

At three o’clock each morning, Chen Shu-Chu rises to prepare for work.  As a seller of vegetables in Taitung Central Market in Eastern Taiwan, Chen’s income is modest.  But, out of her income, she has managed to donate over NT$ 10 million[...]