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A look at the different approaches that counties are taking to create privacy laws and regulations.  How America's approach is different from other countries.  Will there be a worldwide privacy commission?

Talks about other nations and how we as the U.S. nation are placed in 21st for our personal freedoms.

An association of individual and organizations dedicated to building a free and peaceful world. The ISIL promotes respect for individual rights and liberties, and an open and competitive economic system based on volutary exchange and free trade.

Sex trafficking has been an issue in the US for years with more than 20.9 victims worldwide. Human trafficking has been known as slavery and has gone unnoticed.

It saddens me that this is an issue. I wish people did not do this to other people-- essentially taking away their rights and freedoms along with messing with the person emotionally, physically, mentally, and so much more. I really do not understand the mindset of the people that are condoning sex trafficking or even just looking the other way when this is such a dilemma all around the world.

Human trafficking is a travesty that many consider a problem of the past, or at least one limited to outside the United States. Unfortunately, in today's globalized society, the problems of human trafficking are embedded in aspects of Americans' daily lives in ways that many may not be aware of - taking on new forms and presenting new challenges for human-rights defenders worldwide.

There is not a lot of confirmation as to what dads worldwide believe about taking leave, but income is a major factor. Fathers staying home with their child instead of being at work can become an issue when it comes to low salary families. Although, California created a paid parental leave insurance program that became a huge success. Having this opportunity made both, mothers and fathers, take advantage of the paid leave to be home raising and nurturing their new child. The biggest shock was that most of the people who took the paid leave were the parents who were on the lower income scale.

The Legatum Prosperity Index™ is a unique and robust annual assessment of global wealth and well being, which benchmarks 142 countries around the world in eight distinct categories. The interface is user friendly and easily shows how the United States rates against others in areas such as education, personal freedom, and health.

The Legatum Prosperity Index™ is a unique and robust annual assessment of global wealth and well being, which benchmarks 142 countries around the world in eight distinct categories. The interface is user friendly and easily shows how the United States rates against others in areas such as education, personal freedom, and health.

This is the website for an interesting project that details how nations compare to other nations based on certain social progress - including categories like health, ecosystem sustainability, basic education and personal safety. Though the United States ranks high in advanced education, it ranks significantly lower in basic education measures.

This is the website for an interesting project that details how nations compare to other nations based on certain social progress - including categories like health, ecosystem sustainability, basic education and personal safety. Though the United States ranks high in advanced education, it ranks significantly lower in basic education measures.

This is an opinion article that references the Social Progress Index and how the United States under-performs compared to other nations. Both the commentary by the author and the facts he uses within have a sobering effect on how our country is performing compared to other nations.

This is an opinion article that references the Social Progress Index and how the United States under-performs compared to other nations. Both the commentary by the author and the facts he uses within have a sobering effect on how our country is performing compared to other nations.

In a way, no. Today, 40 years after birth control became legal and five decades after the pill's introduction, there is a worldwide problem around women's access to birth control. While, religious people have always been aginst birth control, they are now getting republicans and presidential candidates involved.

Sugary drinks has been linked to 180,000 deaths world wide. Drinks such as soda has been linked to major heart diseases and obesity.

This is a program that helps prevent children in poverty from becoming victims to human trafficking. They explain their rescue programs and how you can help prevent it as well.

Universally, there are about 168 million children who are working in labour. They make not even close to a dollar an hour and they don't even have time to attend school and to work on their futures. Terre des Hommes is dedicated to millions of these kids who have to take on the most dreadful kinds of child labour. For example, they are forced into prostitution and to be household slaves. They are also obligated to work in factories, mines and, plantations.

Several million children all around the world are often rejected a just and even chance in life because they aren't getting the education that they all need. A few million don't take part in schools, or are wrestling with the ability to find (and/or) stay in one because they cannot afford it or simply because they are spending their time working.

Gender equality is an issue that continues to not be fully archive worldwide. Peace Corps points this out and what it would mean to be equals.

This article discusses the gap in gender equality on a global level but primarily focused on women. Some of the issues that they highlighted is Education, Health, Economic and political empowerment for women.

This article describes gender equality in women's economic and political empowerment. Also, gender equality contributing to women's health and education.

this webpage has a page designated for social issue like the others but is different in a way because it includes stories from all over the world including stories from nigeria and india.

This article discusses the appalling video that made the rounds this week through news and social media. It depicts another instance of elder abuse that was caught on a home security camera. Why is is so difficult to find trustworthy care for the elderly? Most of the time families can't afford to provide adequate care.

I agree we need to take better care of our elderly people, not just to treat them respectfully which should be a given, but to take time to listen to them. Our parents give us life. They take care of us and make sacrifices for us. Then when the time comes, it is our duty to do the same. Beyond that, their lifetime of experience can benefit us all.

This was very difficult to watch. As a child whose parent was diagnosed with fronto-temporal dementia, I had no choice but to place her in an assisted living home. Even though I didn't live far from the facility, it was hard to get information from staff. A few staff members were there for years, and I feel fortunate that they took really good care of my mother. I don't think this same experience happens for a lot of people.

This article talks about women's rights across the world. The article lists countries who rank the highest and countries who rank the lowest. The United States surprisingly falls lower than expected. No country is ranked a perfect 100% but there are countries who come close, USA not being one of them.

Such a shame from a country that widely considers itself advocates for equal rights. There are many of us that recognize this same concept, that being gender inequalities and pay gaps still exist, and advocate for that to be abolished. With the recent advances in how sensitive our society is regarding social issues, how long is this really going to take? One would think that we, as a culture of the U.S., would have already arrived to a point of true gender equality.

This is a very interesting article. I knew there is a significant pay gap within the U.S. and was honestly surprised to see it so high up. As someone else said, it certainly is a shame that we are so low yet consider the US to be one of the most progressive countries with social issues.

This article focuses on how the overpopulation and water scarcity will cause us to face problems with our food resources. The author proposes plans that we can follow to reduce the problem.

This was honestly eye opening seeing how much water is used everyday for even the most simplest of things. Reading about how much water it takes to produce food and how much of ends up being wasted in alarming. I recommend this article for anyone who has a topic that relates to this social issues at it provided in depth details on the matter. It's crazy knowing how much water we use daily without knowing how valuable it is, especially now.

The article is so true about water scarcity being our demise, it will be such an catastrophe for the food crisis to strike especially in Arizona. The drought plays a huge part in supporting water scarcity, it dries out our lands and empties out the rivers. There are some good solutions to how to resist against climate change.