New York Times 1
Jul 13, 2015
Winston’s Children Share Their Stories
Nicholas Winton organized the escape of 669 children, mostly Jews, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. After Mr. Winton died...
Cathy Burke | NewsMax
May 13, 2015
Sister Diana Momeka: ISIS Commits 'Cultural and Human Genocide' in Iraq
An Iraqi nun initially denied a visa to testify before Congress — before the White House caved in to a wave of outrage — told lawmakers...
Ranjeni Munusamy | Daily Maverick
Apr 22, 2015
Xenophobia and the media: Where truth and patriotism intersect
There he was, the president of South Africa, reading the Sunday newspapers and thinking: “This makes us look bad.” The cause of...
Achille Mbembe | Africa is a Country
Apr 16, 2015
Xenophobica in South Africa
“Afrophobia”? “Xenophobia”? “Black on black racism”? A “darker” as you can get hacking a “foreigner” under the pretext of his being too...
Anna Grear and Burns H. Weston | The Authors
Feb 25, 2015
The Betrayal of Human Rights and the Urgency of Universal Corporate Accountability
By Anna Grear and Burns Weston 1. INTRODUCTION The universalism at the heart of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) is, in aspiration...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 9, 2015
Mapping Bangladesh’s Political Crisis
Executive Summary On 5 January, the first anniversary of the deeply contested 2014 elections, the most violent in Bangladesh’s history,...
Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2014
Escape From a Nightmare
Refugees at the Kadei River, which marks the CAR’s border with Cameroon. © 2014 Marcus Bleasdale/VII for Human Rights Watch Aboubakar...
Foreign Policy
Sep 25, 2014
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany. But is Angela Merkel doing anything about it?
Germany’s Jewish Problem Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany. But is Angela Merkel doing anything about it? By Benjamin Weinthal ...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 23, 2014
Nepal: Conflict-Era Rapes Go Unpunished
Both government forces and Maoist combatants raped and sexually harassed women and girls during Nepal’s decade-long armed conflict, Human...
New York Times 1
Sep 23, 2014
Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the Shadows
By Jim Yardle SARCELLES, France — From the immigrant enclaves of the Parisian suburbs to the drizzly bureaucratic city of Brussels to...
Arundhati Roy | Toward Freedom
Sep 8, 2014
The NGO-ization of Resistance
A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance. It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an indictment of all...
Dominic Glover, International Business Times
Aug 12, 2014
Gay Azerbaijan Teenager Set Ablaze by Homophobic Parents
A teenager fled for his life after being set ablaze in a homophobic attack by his own parents after they found out he was gay. The...
