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Truth, Justice and Declassification: Secret Archives Show U.S. Helped...
History books may never tell the full story of the dictatorship that terrorized Argentina from 1976 to 1984. But newly declassified United States military and intelligence documents recently delivered...
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Turkmenistan Tops Rankings as World’s Most Repressive State
Turkmenistan has overtaken North Korea as the world’s most repressive state according to Journalists without Borders’ most recent rankings. The record of the country’s president, Gurbanguly...
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Turning a Blind Eye to China’s Suppression of Uyghur Muslims
It is an open secret that the Chinese government is carrying out a “systematic campaign” of abuses, arbitrary detention and torture against Turkic Muslims (primarily ethnic Uyghurs and Kazakhs) living...
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Engaging and Disengaging on Xinjiang
The ongoing visit of Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov, the UN Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office, to China’s Xinjiang region, and the invitation to UN High Commissioner...
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Violent Voyeurism: Surveillance, Spyware and Human Rights
Surveillance is merely a variant of violent voyeurism, the human behind the camera or visual apparatus observing behaviour in a setting, often private. Its premise is privacy’s violation; its working...
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50 Years of LGBQTI Rights
This year, the LGBQTI movement turned 50. Thanks to this movement, in most countries, we have the right to express our sexuality and make decisions about our own lives, regardless of our gender...
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Can the Korean Peninsula ‘Walk Upright’?
On June 14th, during his state visit to Sweden, South Korean President Moon Jae-in addressed the Riksdag and lauded the Swedish government for championing initiatives that promote international peace,...
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A Violation of Human Dignity: The Heinous Nature of Human Trafficking
The increased awareness of the crime of human trafficking in recent years has helped nations to identify the signs and assist the victims who have fallen prey to the most unscrupulous individuals...
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UAE Attempts to Become Internet Watchdog over Political Insecurities
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been touted by some as a modern and tolerant Middle Eastern country. However, what initially lured many to believe that assessment are now facing a major rebuke,...
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Mounir Baatour Wants to Tear Down the Biggest Taboo in the Muslim World
After atheism, homosexuality is one of the biggest taboos in the Muslim world and the wider Middle East, at least among the traditional and religious groups. Tunisia is one of the most modern and...
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UK and EU Condemned for ‘Cosying up’ to Former Soviet State Accused of Forced...
On 6 July, the EU’s outgoing High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, began her much-vaunted Central Asia tour by visiting the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat. The EU’s chief diplomat’s...
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The Retainer Solution: The European Union, Libya and Irregular Migration
There is a venom in international refugee policy that refuses to go away: officials charged with their tasks, passing on their labours to those who might see the UN Refugee Convention as empty...
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Fear of Minority Persecution Looms Large with India’s New Anti-terror Law
Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party, India’s right-wing and ultra-nationalistic party, was voted into power with Narendra Modi as prime minister in 2014, a dark shadow of fear has hovered over...
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‘One Child Nation’ Review
China’s one-child policy (OCP) ran from 1979-2015. This mandatory government program, as the name suggests, restricted women to only birthing one child. One Child Nation (co-directed by Nanfu Wang and...
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Keeping Paid Surrogacy Legal Is a Feminist Issue
The year is 2019, but even now, the divisiveness of “women’s issues” and “reproductive rights” shows that the very autonomy of women is still controversial across the globe. There are already deep...
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The Problem with American Feminism
My decision to become a feminist set me on a bold new path in life. The moment I elevated the rights and dignity of the individual over the oppressive dictates of my childhood Christian theology, I...
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Conversation with Filmmaker Harry Fear on his new film, ‘Gaza: Still Alive’
“Gaza is a unique place.” Thus opens Harry Fear’s newest film, “Gaza: Still Alive,” a documentary about how the Israeli blockade is impacting the mental and physical health of Gazans living in the...
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Hold Zarif Accountable for Iran’s Human Rights Violations
Does believing in diplomacy and not being a proponent of war oblige one to deal with tyrants or embrace their facilitators and enablers? Of course, any conscientious person would say no. So why do...
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Mexican Women are Angry and They Want the World to Know
Wearing green bandannas and dousing police in pink glitter, Mexican women on Aug. 16 staged a furious protest in Mexico City after a 17-year-old girl reported being raped by four police officers...
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Questions over Amnesty’s Internal Fraud Unanswered, as it Attacks Zimbabwe’s...
What is going on at Amnesty International? First, two staff members killed themselves last year. Then an internal review ordered by Amnesty Secretary-General Kumi Naidoo revealed a “toxic” workplace...
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