GlobalPost — NGOs

Design within reach

Daniel Grushkin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:19 +0000

Cameron Sinclair founded Architecture for Humanity to bring thoughtful design to the world’s neediest.

Silicon Sweatshops: A promising model

Jonathan Adams and Kathleen E. McLaughlin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:54:56 +0000

There's no easy way to police supply chains in Asia. But one US high-tech firm and its Taiwan supplier are taking a creative approach that might just work.

Special report: Silicon Sweatshops

Jonathan Adams and Kathleen E. McLaughlin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:05:08 +0000

Despite strict "codes of conduct," labor rights violations are the norm at factories making the world's favorite high-tech gadgets.

Silicon Sweatshops: Shattered dreams

Jonathan Adams — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:24:07 +0000

Migrant workers making gadgets at Taiwan's high-tech parks sign deals that make them modern-day indentured servants.

Silicon Sweatshops: The China connection

Kathleen E. McLaughlin and Jonathan Adams — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:22:58 +0000

For migrant workers, an electronics factory job can be a ticket into China's booming middle class. But for many, it turns into a nightmare of poor working conditions and indifferent bosses.

Silicon Sweatshops: Disposable workforce

Jonathan Adams — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:22:25 +0000

Laid-off Taiwanese workers accuse their firm of violating industry codes even when times were good.

Japan’s downward spiral

Gavin Blair — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:17:34 +0000

One in six Japanese are now poor. The new government has vowed to tackle the problem, but how?

Russia's whistleblower cop is a YouTube sensation

Miriam Elder — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:15:59 +0000

Russian police officer Alexei Dymovsky has released a series of videos calling out corruption and asking Prime Minister Putin to act.

Design within reach

Daniel Grushkin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:19 +0000

Cameron Sinclair founded Architecture for Humanity to bring thoughtful design to the world’s neediest.

Child sex boom fueled by poverty

Deena Guzder — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:24:47 +0000

It's just another dark day in Thailand.

Whose line is it, anyway?

Laura Fitch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:46:08 +0000

What's the best way to cope with the migrant life in China? Improv theater, of course.

Flanked by foreign dignitaries, Karzai announces a runoff

Jean MacKenzie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:43:25 +0000

Two months to the day after Afghanistan’s badly flawed presidential elections, the stalemate is over.

Handicapping the Nobel Peace Prize

Gwladys Fouche — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:03:02 +0000

Will the Nobel Peace Prize committee make a political statement?

China: Living in the shadows

Thomas Mucha — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:36:35 +0000

Special report: An intimate look at China's migrant workers, plus running coverage of the country's changing economy

Under threat in India: mothers-in-law?

Saritha Rai — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:44:42 +0000

But fear not. Here comes the All India Mother-in-law Protection Forum.

Are Pentagon contracts funding the Taliban?

Jean MacKenzie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:44:39 +0000

A US military aid program is being used by the Taliban as an extortion racket.

Belgium's unlikely patriots: Flemish pop stars

Paul Ames — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:56:34 +0000

The Flemish group Clouseau's song "Long Live Belgium" rivals hits by the Pussycat Dolls and the Black Eyed Peas.

The coming war for water

Jason Overdorf — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:22:21 +0000

Kashmir's mighty rivers are a source of strife on the subcontinent.

Death row, Japanese-style: "Cruel, inhuman and degrading"

Justin McCurry — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:37:05 +0000

Does Japan drive criminals insane? And execute them anyway? Amnesty International thinks so.

Jamaica's gays worship in the closet

Micah Fink — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:22:36 +0000

The Sunshine Cathedral, Jamaica's only gay church, gives parishioners a community, in secret.

Scandinavia fights female circumcision

Marcus Oscarsson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:58:10 +0000

Sweden, Denmark and Norway try to stop genital mutilation among immigrants at home and abroad.

Analysis: Rising threat to aid agencies in Afghanistan

William Dowell — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:20:40 +0000

NGO officials dispute allegations that they pay off the Taliban, claim Pentagon efforts to enlist their help place them in peril.

Are US taxpayers funding the Taliban?

Jean MacKenzie — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:36:16 +0000

USAID probes the possibility that contractors give a cut to the Taliban.

Amid sex revolution, AIDS on the rise in Lebanon

Don Duncan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:43:30 +0000

Turning flip-flops into art

Tristan McConnell — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:25:07 +0000

Kenyans recycle beach debris into colorful toys and wearable jewelry.

Doctors at center of human rights row

Maura R. O'Connor — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:19:40 +0000

Sri Lankan doctors have been freed from jail, though they may not yet be free to speak openly.

Violence plagues Indonesia's restive province

Peter Gelling — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:29:45 +0000

In West Papua, US company Freeport-McMoran is in the cross-hairs.

Stock up on sandbags!

William Dowell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:31:21 +0000

The world’s leading meteorologists say it’s time to brace for brownouts, flooded airports and Katrina-like storms.

Learning to live with global warming

William Dowell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:10:30 +0000

Where's the Obama administration's policy on climate change?

Want to grow rich in India? Think poor.

Jason Overdorf — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:20:40 +0000

Economic crisis has turned the attention of India's corporate honchos to some of the country's biggest challenges.

Has Obama put human rights on the back burner?

David L. Stern — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:47:06 +0000

Observers worry the administration is muting criticism because of Central Asia's strategic importance.

Marking 10 years of shipboard abortions

Paul Ames — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:30:20 +0000

Women on Waves, launched in 1999 to give women abortions at sea under Dutch law, feels threatened.