Andrea Ritchie, RH Reality Check. September 4, 2009. The State of Rhode Island seems poised to take a significant step backwards on its legal treatment of both sex work and trafficking.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. January 28, 2009. Hostility to women perceived as "sexually loose" cripples efforts to protect women's rights and health.
David Phinney, AlterNet. June 20, 2007. When Ramil Autencio arrived in Iraq, he had the promise of a two-year job, making $450 a month to better life for himself and his family in the Philippines. What he got was a wartime nightmare.
Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. May 3, 2007. A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them.
David Phinney, CorpWatch. October 26, 2006. The State Department quietly awarded a corrupt Kuwaiti company a $592-million contract to build the embassy in Iraq.