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It’s Time to Close Guantanamo Bay
Despite the efforts of the Obama administration to close Guantanamo Bay prison, it remains open–to the detriment of the U.S. image abroad and at enormous cost to taxpayers. We should put on trial...
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Resistance from the Closet: Saudi Arabia’s Legitimacy ‘Checkmate’
Many Saudis continue to perceive homosexuality as an indulgence instead of an indication of “lifelong patterns of sexual orientation” – as is commonly understood in the West. This thinking alludes to...
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70 years on, Primo Levi’s ‘If This is A Man’ is Still a Powerful Reminder of...
When he was captured by the Fascist militia in December of 1943, Primo Levi (1919-1987) preferred to declare his status as an “Italian citizen of the Jewish race” than admit to the political...
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Honor Killing through Sulaimaniya’s Lens
Violence against women and honor killings are major social problems in Iraqi Kurdistan. The first time I heard about an honor killing, I was a few months shy of becoming a teenager. I was very excited...
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A Memo to Millennials
Your country and the world now belong to you and those who follow you. I am so sorry that you are inheriting from my generation a world that is in such disarray. However, over my lifetime of many...
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Rethinking U.S. Foreign Aid Toward Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has emerged as an important asset for the US and its allies in a turbulent region; it is a key oil exporter, a NATO partner for peace, and is located at a geopolitically advantageous...
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Strengthening Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Gender inequality has remained a long-standing issue in many Middle Eastern cultures that has been exacerbated by terrorism. Although the Middle East is diverse with varying cultures, the region...
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“I will fight for you” - Donald Trump, 06/14/2016
Over the course of Donald Trump’s campaign, he made claims that he would be good for the LGBTQ+ community. His main argument during the campaign on this issue boiled down to, “since Hillary Clinton...
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The United Nations Tackles Human Trafficking
In recent days, we have witnessed a prime example of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man and the evil so prevalent today. Hidden in the darkness is a crime so shocking and vast it requires a concerted...
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Changing the U.S. Aid Culture Toward Egypt: A Political ‘Hook,’ or a...
U.S. aid to Egypt has always been a controversial topic. Egypt consistently scores poorly on the World Economic Global Gender Gap Report ranking (136) out of the (145) countries listed for the year...
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Indian Human Rights Scholar Flees to the United States
Binalakshmi Nepram found temporary respite in the United States after heavily armed commandos forced their way into her home earlier this year. The raid began after a High Court case was filed in...
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Activists and Gulf Crisis Turn Qatar into Potential Model of Social Change
Potential Qatari moves to become the first Gulf state to effectively abolish the region’s onerous kafala or labour sponsorship system, denounced as a form of modern slavery, could produce a rare World...
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UN Envoy Slams Iran
The Saudi envoy to the United Nations has condemned Iran’s longstanding persecution of the Arab Ahwazi people, saying that the regime has shown no indication that it “intends to address the oppression...
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Congress must hold Burmese Military Accountable for Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya
Since August, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled the Burmese military’s systematic ethnic cleansing campaign. As the violence rages on, victims continue to pour into overcrowded...
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Sri Lanka Doesn’t Deserve More American Bear Hugs
The U.S. and Sri Lanka recently held their second Partnership Dialogue. The first took place in Washington, D.C. last year. This one was held in Colombo. The meeting didn’t seem to feature any big...
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Women’s Rights, Human Rights
As I was trawling through the archives of the International Policy Digest recently, I came across an article titled “India’s Dowry Culture,” by Leigh Seeger. A picture above the title depicts a...
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“When All People Are Included, We All Win”
In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development replacing its predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals. Each of the seventeen goals contains target to be...
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Tolerance is a Better Solution for the Wedding Cake Case
Rejection is a common, often innocuous, experience that occurs in all stages of life. But rejection becomes discriminatory and socially corrosive when based on immutable human characteristics such as...
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Peru’s Kuczynski Pardons Fujimori to Save His Skin
On December 21, 2017, Reuters reported that disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori, in power from 1990 to 2000, had requested an official pardon from current President Pedro Kuczynski. The pardon was...
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The Crisis of the Current Negro Intellectual
A few weeks ago, I was able to attend a symposium at my Alma Mata (USF) that discussed the brilliance of the late great Harold Cruse. Cruse’s two legendary books The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual...
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