Alexander Aplerku
One Senator Kept Child Marriage Alive in Nigeria Last Month
Thanks to a legal loophole, the average age of marriage for girls in Kebbi State, northern Nigeria, is 11 years old. The law is often manipulated and exploited for perverse ends, but it's rare that one forgotten detail in legislation can affect an...
Homophobic Killings Won't Dampen New York's Gay Pride
At the end of this month, New York will celebrate its annual gay-pride march. But the parties and marches will be tarnished by the string of recent hate crimes that prompted that presence. The most notorious of those crimes being the murder of 32-year...
