We build memorials to remember the dead. Those that died in wars, in natural disasters, on the front line or the victims of stubborn and vision-less politicians. We do so for a number of reasons, to not forgot, for some to realize the absurdity of war, for others as a symbol of pride for a […]
You see their faces plastered across newspapers and even catch a glimpse on the evening news, but you never really get a clear picture of what a day in the life of a refugee is like, and now you can thanks to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where you can take a virtual tour […]
Honduras is just having problems these days. First its president wants to throw selected parts of the constitution out the window. Then the military throws the president out of the country. And now after a month of international diplomatic drama with the interim government, a major collection of human rights groups is accusing it of […]
Yesterday we posted that Iran was releasing some prisoners who were detained for protesting last month’s presidential election. It has now come out that Shadi Sadr, a major women’s rights lawyer in Iran, was released from Evin Prison. Her arrest, which we detailed here, brought Iran’s current detention policies following last month’s disputed election back […]
Serbian authorities declared this week that top war criminal fugitive, Ratko Mladic, has his days numbered. Mladic was the general in charge of the Serbian military at the massacre in Srebrenica in which 7,000 Muslims were killed. He was also the officer responsible for ordering the shelling of civilians in Sarajevo in the early 1990s […]
Italy has become the butt end of all jokes in Europe. Few take President Silvio Berlusconi seriously and instead, cringe with delight whenever he opens his mouth and speaks his mind. An article in the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, even goes so far to claim conspiracy against Italians (by Beppe Severgnini – can’t find […]
This past weekend, more than 100 scholars and researchers from 12 Muslim countries met at the fifth annual Moderation Forum in Jordan. During the opening ceremony, Jordanian Minister of Culture Sabri Rbeihat urged the participants to support a clearer and truer image of Islam. He pointed out that there is often a major difference between […]
Barbara Gonzalez I am reading Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in a Comparative Perspective by Steven Levitsky, who is currently is associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Drawing from the literature on party change, Levitsky argues that loosely structured party organizations have a better chance of surviving environmental […]
The IMF approved a $2.6 billion dollar loan for Sri Lanka over the objections five states who wanted human rights and policy conditions attached to the loan. As reported earlier on this blog, there are concerns about possible violation of humanitarian law committed by the government towards the end of the 26 year conflict, as […]
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 […]
At the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy earlier this month, leaders came together to tell the world about all the great things they have in store for us. The money, the figures, and the promises. $20 billion will go to help feed the starving around the world. We’ve heard that one before at Gleneagles all […]
To add to the post, India Continues to Battle Against Child Labor, which the 1986 Child Labor Prohibition and Regulation Act that stated that children under fourteen years of age were prohibited to be employed in occupations deemed hazardous, and then the 2006 law, which banned the use of child labor for domestic purposes, and […]
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