The Word “Humanity” Includes Everyone

By Romain Fossey

For several years, I was able to join an adventure: meeting people who lived and/or worked in the streets near the Guatemala City municipal landfill. Some of the people I met there were able to contribute to a new book…

“Let the people’s dreams take flight!”: a Poem on Human Rights

When Evil Walks Among Us

By Steven Worth

In his book “People of the Lie,” the late psychiatrist Scott Peck addressed the question of evil. Surprisingly for a psychiatrist trained as a doctor in the latest scientific techniques of treating people who are suffering, Peck observes there…

Personal Recollections of Homelessness — A Wound That Never Fully Heals

By Prof. S.M. Miller

Some years ago, while visiting Dublin, Ireland, I discovered that I had been homeless as a child in Brooklyn. I was consulting with Focus Point, a newly…

Mass Incarceration in New Orleans: A toll on people living in poverty for their inability to pay the bail bond

By Maria Victoire

It is not a secret! On any given night, half a million people will sleep in a jail cell in the…

In Detroit and Flint (USA), no more water for the poor

I am Justin Wedes, a co-founder of Detroit Water Brigade, a non-profit advocacy and rapid relief organization responding to the city’s aggressive water shut-off program. I work on water issues with low-income families, the homeless…