Torture And The CIA: An Examination Of The Senate Intelligence Committee Report
The recent publishing of a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee has caused a storm in Washington, and a flurry of worldwide political and public reactions. In the wake of the revelations that the CIA, under the auspices ...
30 Years After The UN Convention, Torture Is Still Flourishing
Imagine being beaten, blindfolded, kicked, electrocuted, wrapped in plastic and sexually harassed. For Claudia Medina Tamariz, mother of three, this wasn’t just a nightmare you wake from in the middle of the night. She wa...
8 Articles You Must Read This World Food Day
Today almost 842 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished. Unsustainable models of development are degrading the natural environment, threatening ecosystems and biodiversity that will be needed for our future foo...
DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 4 AUGUST 2012
Africa and Middle East Syria urgency heightens in crisis Reports of new fighting have come out of Syria’s two main cities Damascus and Aleppo. Both are strategically very important to both rebels and official forces as the co...
No Easy Game to Play: Nationalist Incentives from War to the Olympics
Nation-states have recently come under attack, as several scholars have argued that a global world requires novel forms of governance that will eventually make old nations a relic of the past. For the time being, however...
Time To Get Our Future Back
This poem was written in memory of the victims who died during the Peshawar school attack that took place on 16 December in Pakistan. We lost a Future Architect, a Future Doctor, a Future Nurse, We lost hundreds of bri...
