Posts Tagged ‘human rights’
 

 
International Political Forum

The Procedures of Killing People Legally

Where was the world when the first 100,000 Syrians were killed? Where was the efforts for intervention when the first 2 million civilians, men, women, children and elderly fled from a conflict that didn’t care for collateral ...
by Ozlem Unat
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“Development’s Cinderella”

Every woman I know attests to the fact that they absolutely hate the time of the month when they receive their period. It does not matter whether you have access to sanitary pads and tampons, a hot water bottle and pain killers...
by Ruth Nyambura
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Should We Boycott Sochi?

If you are unaware of what’s going on, here is an update from inside the Russian Bear. The situation for homosexuals in Russia has regressed into Soviet style treatment. Today, over 80% of Russians support the new anti-gay pr...
by Kris Gravning
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International Political Forum

Why The Press Needs Protection In Trinidad & Tobago

After the murder of Dana Seetahal earlier this month, one reporter, Mark Bassant, was doggedly pursuing the story. Now, the journalist attests that his life has been threatened because of his investigative reporting. The ...
by Global Voices
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Afghanistan Law To Silence Victims Of Honour Killings, Domestic Violence And Forced Marriage

A new law in Afghanistan might allow the perpetrators of domestic violence, honour killings and forced marriages to commit these crimes without any consequences – simply because they are related to the victim. The controv...
by Priyanka Mogul
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5 Experts Explain Why Alexander Sodiqov’s Arrest In Tajikistan Is So Troubling

More than a week has passed since scholar and Global Voices community member Alexander Sodiqov was detained in Tajikistan, where he was conducting research on conflict resolution as part of an ongoing collaborative project wit...
by Global Voices
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Did Torture Cost American Lives?

“The enemy is the enemy, until he becomes my prisoner,” I remember Lieutenant General Hal Moore saying, “then he is my responsibility”. Moore was with co-author Joe Galloway at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1993. They were talki...
by Christopher Kolenda
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Hetty Bower, Political Activist, Dies Aged 108

Hetty Bower was born in 1905 and throughout her life campaigned for numerous causes that she believed in from the suffragette movement to the 1926 General Strike, the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, being a founding member of the ...
by Joe Corry-Roake
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Massacre in Houla: Isn’t it Time for Concrete Action?

How much “pressure” will international leaders apply before they take concrete action? Tuesday’s announcement that Syrian ambassadors were being expelled from Britain, France, Australia, Germany and other Western nations ...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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