On this week's Global Activism segment, Worldview talks with Leslie Thomas, founding executive and creative director of Art Works Projects. The organization uses design and the arts to raise awareness and educate the public about significant human rights and environmental issues.
Central American migrants who intend to reach the U.S. usually transit Mexico without a visa. They face the risk of being raped, kidnapped, disappeared or assassinated.
Youth perceived to be part of the emo culture have been killed in Baghdad in startling numbers. The latest killings come after months of increased attacks, which may number as high as 100.
Since democratically-elected former president Jose Manuel Zelaya was deposed by a coup in 2009, human rights in Honduras have deteriorated. The country is now the murder capital of the world.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders. More than half of those shot died.At age 15, Don Mullan witnessed the event.
In his new book, Tribal Peoples, Stephen Corry challenges popular assumptions about the world's indigenous. The director of Survival International, Stephen has spent the past 40 years promoting and popularizing tribal people's rights.
