Montly Archive May 2017

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Source: Anti War Literary and Philosophical Selections “To those of us who still retain an irreconcilable animus against war….” Whatever sickening justification may be advanced. David Peterson /Chicago, USA Links to hundreds of writings against […]

Nobel Laureate, Economist Amartya Sen, in way back 1990’s introduced the term “missing women”, showing a deficit in the number of women relative to the expected number of women in a region.

Repression and harassment of trade unionists and workers in Iran is part of a systematic denial of the most basic rights of workers , who are subjected to discriminatory and politically motivated laws and a judicial system that is set to silence independent labour movements and other dissidents.

Source: Countercurrents.org By: Dr. Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, 2017 is a year of significant anniversaries. While historians mark May 15th as the anniversary of the date on which Palestinians were expelled from their historic homeland in […]

Source: Global Research By Robert J. Burrowes While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a […]

By: Robert J. Burrowes & Anita McKone A planetwide 15-year strategy for ordinary people to reduce consumption, increase self-reliance and achieve personal health and ecological security Launched: 1 July 2008. Updated: 1 July 2009, 1 January […]

Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court’s effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes.