I’m in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq in a refugee community where thousands of Yazidi people have fled from ISIS. As I listened to some of their stories today, I learned that they are the lucky ones. ISIS is waging a bloody ethno-religious war against Yazidis and other minority...
Julliet stared blankly down the street winding through her dilapidated village. The afternoon sunlight weaving softly through the trees in the distance seemed strangely incongruent with the storm raging inside of her. Only days before, her husband had been at her side...
Rosemary and Josephine were only 8 and 11 years old when their fates crossed. They were from different communities and had never met, but they shared a common bond—extreme poverty had taken their futures captive. That was 12 years ago. Today they are young women who...
Twenty years ago, the world watched in horror as one of the swiftest civil uprisings of our time left more than 800,000 Rwandans dead. The 1994 Rwandan genocide is now known as one of the largest preventable losses of life in recent history. Today marks the...
The hills of Rwanda tell a story all their own. It was here, 20 years ago, that a nation’s darkest chapter unfolded in a 100-day massacre that wiped out more than a million innocent victims. Memories of the hate-infused slaughter cast long shadows on Rwanda’s rising...