Early in November, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Democratic Lawyers (EDL), published their “Motion regarding the situation of Lawyers and Human Rights defende...
8 July 2015 marked the one year anniversary of the 2014 Gaza war. With there being very slow progress on reconstuction in the Gaza Strip since the war ended, over 100,000 Palestinians remain homeless and not one house has been ...
What is identity? Identity is the internalized reality of an individual or a group which constitutes their most intimate self-perception. In a modern secular democracy, it is imperative that the state takes identities into acco...
When news trickled through about Saturday’s attacks in Copenhagen, it was difficult to avoid a sense of déjà vu. Another Islamic extremist attacks another cartoonist. Then he targets Jews. Was this another Charlie Hebdo? A...
Early in 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron surprised everybody by agreeing to hold a referendum for Scottish independence before the end of his mandate. A few weeks ago, Alexander Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Na...
After surviving a rebellious scare that threatened the existence of the Nationhood of Mali in 2012, the country is back on the track to finding lasting peace; a peace which is not owed to French Military intervention that save...
The French authorities have prohibited a public demonstration in support of the Palestinians in Gaza victims of Israeli aggression. The country which prides itself on its defense of human rights is turning a blind eye to the su...
As the French Muslim population has been steadily growing, so has violence against them. Absent from the media a few years ago, the term ‘islamophobia’ is now frequently used to describe prejudice and hatred towards Muslims...
The 17th of December saw the installation of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition cabinet following the longest entre-en scene of government in German history. Despite the prolonged negotiations, foreign poli...