In 2008, history was made in the United States. For the first time, a black man was elected president of the United States (and in the primaries he fought Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman, and Bill Richardson, a Latino). Not only was Barack Hussein Obama...
I recently visited the Women Hold Up Half the Sky exhibition, on view at the Skirball Cultural Center and Museum until May 20th, 2012. This is an original exhibition based on the bestseller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by...
http://www.gems-girls.org/about/mission-history If you check out our exhibition Girl for Sale, you’ll notice that we talk about girls being trafficked all over the world.  Oftentimes, when we think of trafficking, we imagine girls from...
Following on from my article “On Human Trafficking,” this piece deals with child trafficking to the United States via sex ads that are posted on Craigslist, a much-visited website that is a clearing board for classified ads specific to different areas of...
Over the next few blogs we will be exploring different issues raised by the Women in the World Summit held in March. What do you think of when you think of girlhood? Maybe you remember playing with friends, going on vacation with your family, or spending time in...
