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We want to open an NGO In the past five-six years, many people, friends, and students showed interest and contacted me to take my advice about opening a Non Government Organisation (NGO). Most of these ...
Equatorial Guinea brutalizes its people like North Korea and Syria. So why is a prominent U.S. foundation cozying up to its dictator? In the campaign for human rights and justice in apartheid South Africa ...
United States policy towards Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mbasogo, the dictator/president of Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea, is a perfect case study in the hypocrisy of Western leaders when it comes to African strongmen. Even as Hillary ...
When you think of Africa what comes to mind? Go ahead give it a go, and honestly say the first things that popped into your head. Your answers will probably cluster around the same topics ...
Last Thursday (28 June), I was on the schedule to deliver testimony at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. I was invited to be part of UN Watch's campaign to stop Hugo ...
Cyprus, cognisant of its size and experience as a member state, wants its presidency of the European Union to be one that facilitates and navigates through the Union’s agenda without fanfare or grand statements ...
The bizarre confusion of morals in the global arms trade was brought to light late last week when the U.S. Department of Defense went on a PR offensive to justify their buying attack helicopters ...
The trade debate is once again on top of the agenda, and will soon return as a subject of discussion for governments around the world. Only a few weeks after South Africa and Denmark announced ...
With the recent economy forcing employers worldwide to get more stringent with their resources, several industries have seen increases in the outsourcing of work to in-country as well as international freelance workers. This trend has ...
Given the political paralysis in Washington and the on-going crisis over the eurozone, it is difficult to be optimistic about the global economy. Focusing solely on recent gloomy headlines, though, causes us to miss a ...
The euro crisis has upset traditional ideas of what makes a nation powerful by turning Greece into one of the world’s most feared countries. It illustrates how the globalized economy gives almost any nation ...
“Artificial light in the environment must be considered a chronic impairment of habitat...While lamp efficiency and consideration of SPD (spectral power distribution) are significant accomplishments, true night sky friendly lighting can still only be ...
Syria is a sharp reminder of precisely why we need a strong Arms Trade Treaty. The distressing scenes of ferocious and unrelenting military assaults on Syrian cities, are a sharp reminder that the world needs ...
The recent election to parliament of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party heralds a new dawn for this struggling South East Asian nation, now officially known as Myanmar. The Nobel laureate ...
François Hollande has just been elected president of France: the first socialist president since François Mitterrand (1981-1995). The outcome was narrower than polls had predicted: 51.7 percent for the winner and 49 ...
Dear Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, In November of 2011, the Human Rights Foundation invited Dr. Chee Soon Juan - one of your well-known critics and one of Singapore's most visible opposition leaders - to speak ...
At a time when most nations are trying to figure out how to stop Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from killing his own people in a year-long struggle to stay in power, the Venezuelan government is ...
Socrates believed that the first step towards gaining true knowledge was eliminating misinformation and realizing how much you don’t know, a state he called ‘Aporia’. The Chinese have a similar saying which suggests that ...
In 12 years volunteering for the Red Cross, I have never seen a catastrophe like the current food crisis here in the Sahel region of Mali. I live in Kayes town, which is in west ...
Police misconduct and violence continues throughout the world, often without any oversight, accountability or justice for the victims. Recent deaths of civilians by police officers in New York, violent repression of “Occupy” protestors, and rampant ...
Tourism in south Asia generated approximately USD 103.8bn or 4.8% of the region’s total GDP in 2011. While this may seem significant, the relative contribution of the tourism industry to its national ...
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) is to hold an event today (February 27) on the current and future status of youth employment, “Breaking new ground: Partnerships for more and ...
Liu Xiaobo currently resides in the Jinzhou Prison in the Liaoning Province of China, serving an 11-year prison term. His “crime”: drafting and promoting Charter ‘08, a manifesto that demands human rights and democratic reforms ...
With the Rio+20 Conference steadily approaching, leaders and diplomats around the globe are preparing for the world’s latest attempt to reach an agreement on climate change. While the outcome remains uncertain, there is ...
Throughout the four years of the global financial crisis, nobody has spoken up in favor of greedy bankers or big bonuses for executives of failing financial institutions. It’s about time someone did. Here’s ...
As the world becomes more intertwined, an increasingly complex supply chain has emerged. From computers to coffee, the end products that consumers purchase often travel thousands of miles before landing in the hands of their ...
Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings?During World War II, German cleric Dietrich Bonhoeffer actively conspired against Hitler to resist the persecution ...
This paper is based on a speech given at a conference with the University of Geneva and the Latsis Foundation in December 2011. It has been edited by Professor Fukuyama for The Global Journal. I ...
As the world focuses its attention on the horrors of Kim Jong Il's rule, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) uploads three important talks given at the Oslo Freedom Forum to take you behind the ...
Introduction Today, most governments are focused on understanding the economic growth they rely on, and take strong measures to sustain this growth. Why are they so focused on this element? It is very clear that ...
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