Jonathan Lutes

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Bangladesh is developing faster than its power supply can handle. The growing textile industry makes changes to the Bangladeshi power grid a necessity.

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, [...]

Around three billion people, almost half of the world’s population, resort to open fires or leaky stoves in their kitchens, causing a great health risk. Around 1.2 billion people still live with no access to [...]

Obama stressed that he constantly fails to live up to Mandela’s example, but is reminded to try to be a better man every day. As New York Times Op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof points out, leaders [...]

The reader will most probably learn a few statistics, and be prompted to think about some things that would not normally come to his or her mind. But Kristof had to [...]

Four years ago, The Law on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) was passed that, among other things, made violence against women a crime. But [...]

To pillage means to rob – often violently – during wartime, and it is a war crime. Politicians and soldiers have been prosecuted for taking valuables [...]

But history unites all Caribbean nations: to this day its effects are present in contemporary culture and society and are felt in political alliances and economic challenges. These legacies of slavery, as termed by [...]

McQueen feels that slavery’s critical role in the not-too-distant past has not been sufficiently addressed. In the 1850s slavery was still a huge industry, with even the Anglican Church [...]

The Hewitts are white, which  made them an unusual sight in their adopted neighborhood. For thirty-one days, the family lived the life of one of the millions of poor families in [...]