Thanks to years of lobbying by local and international women’s NGOs, the International Criminal Court is finally beginning to prioritize prosecuting mass rape.
Alyson Zureick
Alyson Zureick, a former Prospect intern, is a freelance writer based in New York.
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Stopping Aid
This was supposed to be a milestone year in the fight against AIDS. In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it intended to intensify its prevention programs in order to cut new HIV infections in half by 2005. Instead, the number has held steady at 40,000 a year since 1998. […]
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Radio Free America
It’s an unusually hot August afternoon in small-town Florence, Massachusetts, and a ragtag group has gathered under a tent behind the Florence Community Center. They’re participants in the 10th annual Grassroots Radio Conference, and they’ve come from all over the country to build a new low-power community radio station for the area. People wander in […]
