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Lessons from the So-Called ‘Powerless’ Women of the North. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced last month it was closing down operations in Sri Lanka, where in 2009 it had ...
The Sri Lankan government must immediately cease its assault on the independence of the judiciary, the ICJ said in a new report released today. The 150-page report, Authority without Accountability: The Crisis ...
The Nobel Prize announcement has triggered another round of EU bashing. There are many reasons today to be critical of the EU. Any positive appraisal of the EU project could be seen ...
To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the passing of Laura Pollán, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) re-releases two documentary shorts highlighting the work of the “Ladies in White,” a civil society ...
Oleg Shein, a mild-mannered member of the opposition movement, came before Western audiences last week to discuss corruption in Russia. Shein was the Just Russia mayoral candidate in Astrakhan, a major city ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Sergei Magnitsky, and now, Pussy Riot. While these highly publicized cases are mostly known for their political nature, they also hint at deeper problems within the Russian justice system. Unwarranted ...
In the tangled wake of North Africa’s ‘Arab Spring’, there have been early signs of a much quieter, but no less consequential, democratic movement spreading through the south of the continent ...
With the dust beginning to settle on the death of Meles Zenawi (21 July) —ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling ...
A fiction writer from the Golden Age of Russian literature could never have dreamed up a scenario as absurd and a story as far-fetched as the persecution of the punk rock band ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Friday, 3 August 2012, three men wearing bright balaclava masks climbed onto a building across from the windows of the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow, Russia. They waved flare torches and chanted ...
Ukraine has witnessed a new criminal case brought by Kyiv's tax authorities against Mykola Knyazhutskyi, the Managing Director of TBi. The case against the head of the most reputable television channels ...
It is well known that not only states commit human rights violations. Private entities, including corporations, do too. What is less known, is that the international legal system that was once a ...
The mineral-rich and once-beautiful area of Jharia is on fire. Literally. Incredible economic growth has increased the demand for energy. But the lethal tactics applied to extract this energy from Jharia’s ...
Liu Baozhu is doing production-line work in a textile factory in Guangdong province. The vast majority of the clothes that are being produced in this factory are for western clients and will ...
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