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Do Western Feminists Have Any Right to Speak out for the Female Muslim Community?
This month Ukrainian feminist protest group FEMEN once again sparked international debate for their controversial protest, ‘topless Jihad day’ in solidarity with Amina Tyler, a young Tunisian woman who posted a nude photo...
Pragmatic Politics And The Debate Over Torture
In international law there are two absolute forbidden acts: genocide, and torture. However, the way academia approaches the two issues is strikingly different. Genocide is taught as an absolute wrong: that it is an act of ultim...
WATCH: A Story of Humanity Amongst the Many Faces of Suffering
A new documentary, Zanta, produced by Beijing-based foreign correspondent Jocelyn Ford, has blurred the lines of politics, gender, religion and ethnicity that remain widely unrepresented in the sphere of mainstream media. Undis...
Rwanda-DR Congo Rebel Support Conflict: The Heart of the Matter
In his book “Politics”, Aristotle argued that man is a political animal, whose motive for action and reaction is ruled by need for wealth, safety and liberty. Aristotle goes on to argue that any state is like a united commu...
Raising the Minimum Wage: Will it Work?
A recent proposal by George Osborne to increase the National Minimum Wage (NMW) has had a positive reception amongst politicians and the public alike. The plans include raising the minimum wage to £6.50, a 3% increase from the...
Human Rights, Interrupted
Like many, I am a firm believer that without global discussion and activism in regards to human rights, there will never be answers or results. It is therefore imperative that all human rights issues be discussed at all levels,...
