Thanks to extensive research and noticeable changes in weather and storm prevalence, it’s getting harder to turn a blind eye to the reality of climate change. Since the Industrial Age spurred the increasing usage of fossil fuels for energy production, the weather has been warming slowly. In fact, since 1880, the temperature of the earth has increased by 1 degree Celsius. Contributed by authors at Learnstuff, the article provides detailed infographic information on climate change and its effects on Earth and its inhabitants.

  Video by Caroline Sagalchik ’13

Girl Rising portrays the true stories of nine young women from countries
where female education is typically neglected. Prominent writers from the
respective countries adapted the girls’ stories into screenplays, and A-list
Hollywood actors and performers, such as Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and
Alicia Keys, then provided narration. BHRR staff Caroline Sagalchik 13′ and
Sarah Melton 16′ sat down with the executive producer and director Holly Gordon
for an interview.

            [The famous photo taken of Juna Rai, Maoist fighter holding a gun.] by Sagar Shrestha               [A mother wipes the blood of a Maoist from her storefront as her daughter looks on.] by Ghanshyam Khadka               [A woman holds [...]

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, members of the Watson Institute Global Media Project examine the challenges facing reporters and the media when covering complex human rights issues. In a strikingly honest commentary, Kristof discusses both the challenges and strategies used by reporters to cover international events and portray them for a world wide honest.

In his address before the United Nations and the international community as a whole, President Barack Obama outlined a very stark reality. The “notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete” and as such he officially recognized the ushering of an apparent new era of democratic media creation. This is a world where the Arab Spring was fostered in no small part by twitter. Shaky cell phone footage of downed helicopters gives anti-Assad Syrian rebels military credibility. A lunatic ex-con in Florida can spark anti-American riots in the Middle East.

Haitians are fiercely proud of their independence, history, and religion. In the two years since the earthquake, the capital city of Port-au-Prince has started to rebuild. Unfortunately, no amount of foreign aid could have healed the decades of political turmoil, broken health and social systems, and extreme poverty that continue to plague the nation.

Martin Weiss and Matt Bingham of the non-profit “Moral Fibers” documented the rebuilding process in Haiti on their last visit to the nation.