by Anne-Linda Amira Augustin | published May 15, 2014 Huda al-‘Attas (b. 1973) is an activist for women’s rights, an author of short stories and a teacher of sociology at the University of Aden. Aden was the capital of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), which existed from 1970 [...]

By Carrie Hessler-Radelet, acting director of the Peace Corps I come from a family of Rotarians. My father is a Rotarian, and my Aunt Ginny — whose Peace Corps service inspired me to become a volunteer — was also a Rotarian. Peace Corps volunteers and Rotarians like my father and aunt [...]

BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 12 May 2014 by Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research 1. Welcome de-escalation Vladimir Putin’s statements that separatists should not hold referendums on May 11 [2014], that he welcomes the elections in Ukraine on May 25 and that Russia is withdrawing troops from [...]

As anyone can plainly reason, when anyone gets violent, the conflict in question tends to degenerate toward more violence, with a natural human vengeance for any violent attack driving that series of responses steadily downward toward the worst in human nature. One side gets violent, the other side responds in [...]

Dear friends in Rotary, As you are already informed Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are facing a historical natural catastrophe. Heavy rainfall has ravaged whole cities, huge amounts of water have triggered landslides, roads and railways are underwater or destroyed, hundreds of houses are destroyed, and several of people have lost their lives. It is state [...]

by Paul Rogers  Published on Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Open Democracy Sixty years ago smallpox was endemic across much of the world, killing two million people each year. In 1959 an international programme to eliminate the virus was started, not least because it was a disease amenable to large-scale [...]