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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 ...
The “Peace Laboratories” (Laboratorios de Paz) - a joint initiative of the European Commission and the Colombian Government with the objective of promoting the collective construction of suitable conditions for achieving sustainable peace ...
Opinion piece by Saïd Benarbia, Middle East & North Africa Senior Legal Adviser at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Mazen Darwish is one of the most prominent human rights lawyers and ...
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 ...
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid, by Peter Gill, Oxford University Press, $18.95, £9.99. In 1984, the terrible famine, which swept across the north of Ethiopia claiming some 600 ...
Mexican journalist Adela Navarro Bello’s message to global leaders is: “Don’t detach yourself from society! As a journalist, I must listen to society, particularly when it is voiceless, when it ...
Talking about sex and orgasms in Indonesia’s Muslim society is taboo. But this is exactly what Firliana Purwanti, a human rights activist and development practitioner, is doing. Not only is she ...
Being gay in Uganda could soon attract the death penalty. Knowing and not reporting that your sister is a lesbian could soon be punishable with a prison sentence. Kasha Nabagesera is the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Are you happy? While this may sound like a frivolous question, in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and increasingly around the world, happiness is serious business. Last month for the first time ...
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 ...
Only three months after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is being criticized for remarks she made about gay acts at a time when the country is ...
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 ...
Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times, Seyla Benhabib, Polity Books, 21,60 € Never has the human rights discourse been so ubiquitous and so contested at the same time. Never has ...
Tibetan monks may have an iPhone 4, but too many still choose self-immolation. Exclusive report from Tibet where journalists are not welcome unless part of an official tour. The pilgrims are still ...
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