Archive for the 'Human Rights' Category

Living, Dead – 10000 Filipino Families Living In A Cemetery

Quite hard to imagine but 10,000 families live in this graveyard in Manila in the Philippines:   Vice Magazine posted this fascinating article about these people who literally live next to the dead. Some families ended up here almost accidentally. Some inherited the mausoleums that they now live in from their great-grandparents. Others came from […]

Amnesty International Campaign Against FGM

Since female circumcision has sparked a new debate again, Amnesty International has a new ad campaign against it. LadyFlowers Sweden’s anti-FGM are pretty visual metaphors. Don’t know about it’s effectiveness, but it looks simple and quite impressive.

Female Circumcision: One Of The Most Barbaric Procedures Still Being Executed

Sure you’d think, different country and different culture. But once you hear about some of the most horrifying traditions that are still being carried out, it’s hard not being judgmental and not condoning these barbaric practices. One of the worst you will ever hear about is female circumcision: the removal of a young woman’s clitoris […]

Sigmund Freud’s “Letter to an American Mother” of 1935

What the post title says: Sigmund Freud’s “Letter to an American Mother” of 1935. Some mum must have been a bit unhappy about her son’s choice of sexuality… I like how he points out that “many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals” Dear Mrs…. I gather from your letter that […]