Jonathan Lutes

The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now planning to build a coal-fired power plant in the Rampal region, which is only 14 kilometers to [...]

This means that over a third of the world’s female population (aged 15-44) are victims of sexual and/or physical abuse at least once in their [...]

Most factory workers in Cambodia are young women from rural areas. Many belong to a first generation of workers who have left home hoping to earn money they can send back to their [...]

Yet, some politicians and members of the media refute the scientific approach and preach untruths in order to distract the public from the impending [...]

In mid-December, political rivalries over the country’s oil regions erupted into widespread attacks on civilians, displacing over one hundred thousand people. It is still unclear [...]

As Joe Cochrane has written for the New York Times, illegal small scale gold mining and processing is conducted in people’s back yards and is funded and protected by businessmen, as well as by [...]

Public health initiatives have been successful at lowering smoking rates in many countries, and more than 170 countries have signed the W.H.O. Framework Convention on Tobacco [...]

Out of desperation, many families see no other option but to send their children to the slightly less impoverished homes, where they work for room, board and, [...]