human rights Archives - The American Scholar

Getting Screwed

By Stephanie Bastek | 11/09/2015 |

Read an excerpt from Alison Bass’s new book on sex workers and the law

Do Female Lives Matter?

By Judith Hooper | 10/14/2015 |

Uncovering forgotten history through fiction

What Migrant Crisis?

By Gaia Vince | 10/14/2015 |

Europe’s panic is shortsighted and foolish

Witch Persecution in Africa

By Josie Glausiusz | 04/01/2015 |

Where children can be victims

Witch Hunts

By Josie Glausiusz | 03/25/2015 |

Not the metaphorical kind

Letter from Kakuma Camp, Kenya: Nowhere Girl

By Neil Shea | 03/04/2015 |

Organ Laundering

By Josie Glausiusz | 11/05/2014 |

Can you know where your new kidney came from?

The Last Island of the Savages

By Adam Goodheart | 09/05/2000 |

Journeying to the Andaman Islands to meet the most isolated tribe on Earth