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The Hypocrisy of the Animal Rights Movement
Almost immediately after ascending to power, the Nazi Party enacted, in the words of professor and author Hal Herzog, Ph.D., “the world’s most progressive animal protection legislation.” While they...
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How to End Modern Slavery in Thailand’s Seafood Industry
If you’ve ever bought a cheap pack of frozen Thai shrimp from your local store, there’ll be a good chance you and your family will have eaten seafood processed by slave workers who regularly endure...
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Iran: Children of Death Row
Iran leads as the world’s largest user of the death penalty and tops any country in the execution of offenders under 18. In the first half of 2015 alone, Iran executed nearly 700 young offenders. This...
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Marriage Equality: Double-Edged Sword for LGBT Communities
The recent landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States, was met with great celebration by many Americans, especially in the LGBT...
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Offshoring Justice: David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee
He always had a rough deal. He strayed as a young man, a situation that would have been perfectly acceptable if he had picked the approved rogue group or terrorist collective to vent his adolescent...
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ILO to Qatar: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is or Else
The International Labor Organization, by giving Qatar 12 months to implement labor reform, has put the Gulf state on notice that it no longer can delay acting on promises made in the wake of its...
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Amnesty International: Qatar Still Using ‘Forced labour’
World Cup host Qatar and FIFA are, in public diplomacy terms, back to square one with a just published Amnesty International report that takes the Gulf state to task for failing to implement lofty...
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FIFA, Human Rights and Politics: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards
World soccer body FIFA’s creation of a watchdog to monitor the living and working conditions of migrant labor employed on World Cup 2022-related construction sites constitutes the second time in a...
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Orwellian Iran
Anyone who has read George Orwell’s 1984 will recall the extreme degree to which the totalitarian state of Oceania controlled the behavior and thought of its citizens. It performed executions on a...
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U.S. Pressures Qatar to Move on Labour Reform
A recently published US State Department report on human trafficking provides Qatar with yet another roadmap to counter World Cup-related international criticism of its labour regime. The State...
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Gulf Autocrats and Sports Corruption: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Global soccer and global sports governance have for the past nine years and certainly since a fateful meeting in late 2010 of the executive committee of FIFA, the world soccer body, witnessed crisis...
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Mr. Rouhani: What Have you Done to Protect the Rights of Your Baha’i Citizens?
As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani prepares to address the UN General Assembly for the fourth time – and the last time before the next Iranian presidential election in 2017 – I cannot help but notice...
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Is Mexico Ready for Gay Marriage?
In September, some 100 cities in all 32 Mexican states hosted a so-called “March for the Family” – protests against a proposal to legalise gay marriage. Estimates vary, but according to the National...
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Pushing the Envelope: The World Cup and Arab Revolts Drive Change
Pressured by human rights and trade union activists leveraging Qatar’s exposure as a World Cup host and influenced by subtle changes sparked by popular Arab revolts in recent years, young Qataris are...
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Latin American Women’s Problem: We Keep Getting Murdered
It’s not been a particularly uplifting month to be a woman in Latin America, especially if you read the news. On October 8 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 16-year-old Lucía Pérez was abducted outside her...
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Qatar Calls into Question its Sincerity in Pushing World Cup-Driven Reform
For much of the last six years since winning the hosting rights of the 2022 World Cup, Qatar appeared to be taking a slow and torturous path towards some degree of reform. Yet, in an increasingly...
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Qatari Soft Power Efforts: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards
Efforts to leverage Qatar’s 2022 World Cup hosting rights to create the soft power the Gulf state needs to punch above its weight and ensure a sympathetic hearing in the international community in...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Life of ‘Unwanted’ Rohingyas
At a time when the world is debating measures to deal with the refugee influx from the Middle East, the plight of the Rohingyas in another part of the world is being met with indifference. Maybe, this...
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Qatari and FIFA Pledges on Worker Rights Have Little Impact on Construction...
A recent survey of construction companies involved in World Cup-related infrastructure projects in Qatar raises questions about whether the Gulf state and world soccer body FIFA are doing all that...
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Men Work, Women Work: An Absence of Fairness
The latest report published by the Global Gender Gap highlights an interesting phenomenon regarding the rise of female enrollment in both secondary and tertiary education. It is evident that in 95...
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