Lilac Peterson, Author at Berkeley Political Review

Berkeley Political Review

Open any news website and you’ll come face-to-face with heartbroken Brazilian parents cradling a doleful infant with microcephaly, a condition

Beginning in April, Guatemala’s streets swelled with massive weekly protests calling for two goals: for President Otto Perez Molina to

The term “domestic helper” conjures images of a devoted caretaker who enlivens a family’s home. But for Indonesian domestic helpers,

In modern industrialized societies, women continue to encounter stigma and stonewalling when they seek out information about family planning and

The Feminist Initiative literally blazed onto the political scene and stamped its name on international headlines in 2010, when party

Every day news outlets around the world cover the latest horrors committed by the Islamic State (confusingly abbreviated as IS,

Following decades of cautious foreign policy, China is now taking a significant role in helping to secure peace in neighboring