The Roma

The Roma people, otherwise known as Gypsies, originally came from India, but the reason the people left, and subsequently lived in a diaspora, is unknown. They migrated through Persia, Armenia and Byzantium, and reached Europe around the late 13th or early 14th...

Israel and the Middle East

“Yet it is precisely this historic dismissal of the Other and the legitimacy of its national cause that stands at the root of Palestinian statelessness and dispersal.” — Efraim Karsh Jews have lived in the Middle East continuously for thousands of years. After...

One Way to Look At It

The fresh water supplies that the human population depends on are less than .05 percent of all the water on Earth.  Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years, more than twice the rate of human population growth. Most of this water is being used in...

U. S. History

1500s Iroquois women own the land and control the economy of the Iroquois nation. The women supervise the distribution of food, and clan mothers appoint tribal chiefs and can demand their removal. Cherokee clan mothers select male leaders, and have a strong voice in...

Violence in Intimacy

Between 1 and 4 million women experience serious assault by an intimate partner each year. Forty seven percent of men who beat their wives do so at least 3 times a year. Nearly 1 in 3 adult women experience at least 1 physical assault by a partner during adulthood....

Prostitution

The average age of entry into prostitution in the US is 14. Between 75 to over 90% of prostituted girls and women are victims of childhood sexual abuse, often with multiple perpetrators. In a 1998 study of prostitution in five countries including the US, 73% of...