note:while there has been voluntary relocation of many Christian families to northern Iraq, recent reporting indicates that the overall Christian population may have dropped by as much as 50% since the fall of the Saddam HUSSEIN regime in 2003, with many fleeing to Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon (...
Cambodia Bans Film About Murdered Rainforest Activist Kenya aims to reverse deforestation, plant 20 million new trees Indonesian President Joko Widodo bans new oil palm and mining concessions Rainforest study shows biodiversity loss worse than anticipated Congo Signs Historic Rainforest Preservation Pact ...
Leonard Peltier is an American Indian activist who, after becoming one of the best-known indigenous rights activists in North America, was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two FBI agents. His life sentence was commuted by Pres. Joe Biden in 2025.
As interior secretary, Haaland was able to implement programs that she was unable to pass through legislation while in Congress, namely establishing the Missing and Murdered Unit in the Bureau of Indian Affairs to investigate the epidemic of unsolved violence against Indigenous people and organizing ...
Osiris’s brother. When Seth murdered Osiris and contested Horus’s heritage (the royal throne of Egypt), Horus became Seth’s enemy. Horus eventually defeated Seth, thus avenging his father and assuming the rule. In the fight, Horus’s left eye (i.e., the moon) was damaged—this being...
militarydictatorshipand repression during which thousands of presumed dissidents were “disappeared,” or murdered; this ended in the disastrous Falklands Islands War of 1982, when Argentina invaded the South Atlantic islands it claimed as its own and was defeated by British forces in a short but ...
and private warfare broke out. Three of William’s guardians died violent deaths before he grew up, and his tutor was murdered. His father’s kin were of little help, since most of them thought that they stood to gain by the boy’s death. His mother, however, managed to protect him ...
Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan Indian-rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1992, especially noted for her efforts on behalf of Guatemala’s indigenous peoples. Learn more about her life and career, including her acclaimed, though co
In 1980 Lennon was murdered by a fan-turned-stalker outsidethe Dakota, anapartment buildinginNew York Cityknown for its celebrity tenants. The eventprovokeda global outpouring of grief. Lennon is memorialized in Strawberry Fields, a section ofCentral Parkacross from the Dakota that Ono landscaped...
Manyindigenouspolities emerged in Nigeria before the British took control in the late 19th century. In the north there were several large and developed systems, including theHausa statesofKano,Katsina,Zaria, and Gobir;Kanem-Borno; and theJukunstates of Kwararafa, Kona, Pinduga, and Wukari. ...