HUMAN RIGHTS
Eight Years After Backpage’s Seizure, the Sex Marketplace It Exposed Still Thrives in the Shadows
A landmark 2018 takedown promised a reckoning for online sex trafficking—but while a handful of executives fell, the broader ecosystem of enablers, profiteers and apologists remains largely intact. How do we hold the hidden perpetrators accountable?
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Marshall Faulk
NFL Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk shifts his focus from scoring touchdowns to winning the battle to keep kids off drugs. The Super Bowl champion is an international spokesman for Drug-Free World and educates millions on the dangers of drugs.
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HUMAN RIGHTS
Eight Years After Backpage’s Seizure, the Sex Marketplace It Exposed Still Thrives in the Shadows
A landmark 2018 takedown promised a reckoning for online sex trafficking—but while a handful of executives fell, the broader ecosystem of enablers, profiteers and apologists remains largely intact. How do we hold the hidden perpetrators accountable?
HUMAN RIGHTS
Quebec Laws Target Religious Expression, Push Educators From Classrooms
Teachers are being pushed out of Quebec classrooms for wearing hijabs, turbans and other religious symbols. Civil liberties groups say the province’s escalating secularism laws are targeting faith itself.
DRUGS
UK Marijuana Boom Driven by Just 10 Doctors Writing Half of All Prescriptions
A handful of doctors is driving a massive prescription surge in the UK’s $6.6 billion-a-year medical cannabis industry—even as new data links the drug to higher rates of depression, anxiety and heart disease.
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HUMANITARIAN FEATURES
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Public School District Settles Religious Freedom Lawsuit, Restores Training Access for Students
The agreement between the Chicago Board of Education and Moody Bible Institute resolves a four-month dispute over whether public school programs can impose hiring conditions on faith-based institutions.
HUMAN RIGHTS
The World Is Her Classroom: Across 90 Countries Dr. Mary Shuttleworth Teaches Human Rights
Through decades of global outreach, Dr. Shuttleworth has transformed human rights from paper into practice in communities worldwide with one powerful tool: education.
HUMAN RIGHTS
FOIA Expert Dr. David Cuillier Warns: You Don’t Miss Access Until It’s Gone
Dr. David Cuillier says “secrecy creep” has steadily eroded US FOIA compliance over three decades, calling it a growing threat to democracy itself if left unchecked.
