Human Rights

As the negotiations in Copenhagen reminded us, scientific evidence demonstrates that the process of climatic change is now more concentrated and more threatening. As a result, human displacement due to environmental change remains an increasing concern in the 21st century. Populations are forced to move due to fast-paced events like hurricanes, slower processes like desertification, […]

The impact of the global financial crisis creates an illusion that there are real prospects for effective co-operation to reach long-term global goals. Despite China’s immaculate hosting of the Olympic Games and its inevitable rise to the global negotiation tables as a key decision-maker, reality forces her to come to terms with her own pressing […]

Female Genital Mutilation (Circumcision) (FGM) is a human rights violation that follows women and girls across the globe. In the last few years news has begun to shed a little more light on the global fight, which in many ways is only in its infancy.  In February 2008 10 UN agencies urge end to female […]

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a […]

Small changes in your local community can make a big difference in our world. Your “climate” is more than the air you breathe–it’s the people, places, & relationships that affect your daily life. Describe in a video (no longer than 2 minutes) what you or somebody you know is doing to make your community a […]

Tis’ the season of giving and time to evaluate how privileged in life you are, and see how you can help someone in need. Therefore here is a few ideas to help you in your unquenchable need to help underprivileged children, and help make a child’s life better this year. Why not pick a few […]

Dr. Emmanuel Navon, a member of the Likud party, knows his history.  Or rather his version. As he addressed a small gathering of journalists last week at the International Press Centre in Brussels, Dr. Navon spoke on his own personal terms.  In other words, what he said is officially…unofficial. The Council of the European Union […]

Migration over the last year has been dominated by economic issues, as European migration became a balance, and sometimes a conflict, between new cultures and old cultures. Rights and migration were the questions in places like Calais and reducing illegal immigration on European beaches and discovering a new way to take in immigrants who can […]

Access to safe and legal abortion could soon be declared a human right in Europe.  Irish reproductive rights advocates and 3 female plaintiffs have brought a case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), claiming harm suffered by Ireland’s abortion ban.  Ireland is unique amongst European countries in the extent to which is has […]

Does porn drive sex trafficking?  In a world where sex is everywhere and we use motto’s in business, such as “sex sells”, on is left to question where the line of genuine sexuality and harm begins and ends. “The act of rape is merely the expression of the standard, ‘healthy’ even encouraged male fantasy in […]

A new story today by the BBC details the growing problem of police violence in Nigeria.  The morgue at the Nigeria University Teaching Hospital overflows with bodies brought in by police, often unnamed but reported to be suspected criminals, such as armed robbers or thieves.  In some cases, that may be the case but in […]

The global economic recession has had mixed effects on migration. In some cases it led to clear decreases in remittance-sending, while many migrants also lost their jobs. In the United States, for example, a large number of immigrants worked in low-skilled industries such as construction, where available jobs dropped precipitously after the collapse of the […]