opinion
OBLITERATING HISTORY
Putin’s brutal war takes dead aim at the heart of Ukrainian humanity. The world must hold him accountable.
Liesl Gerntholtz is the inaugural director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center at PEN America; she is a South African human rights lawyer who spent the early part of her career working for the South African Human Rights Commission and the Commission on Gender Equality in post-apartheid South Africa.
Rights
As female activists in Tripoli push for equal rights, they get a surprise visit from the country’s highest-ranking men.
As Obama meets with Haiti's president, the aftershocks of the Port-au-Prince earthquake are hitting especially hard among displaced women, who face an outbreak of sexual violence. Liesl Gerntholtz on the awful toll—and how to help.