Politics
ICTJ Examines How Transitional Justice Must Adapt to Difficult Circumstances in Today’s World
A new book by ICTJ titled Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies, examines the challenges of responding to massive human rights violations in different and difficult circumstances.
Friday 9 June 2017The scars of 1967 through the eyes of an Arab millennial
Source: TRT World Young Ahmed is raised with his father’s scarring memories of the Six-Day War only to grow up and face his own socio-political trauma. Achment Gonim is of Egyptian descent, raised in Greece […]
Friday 9 June 2017Zbigniew Brzezinski & the lies about Afghanistan
Source: Workers World By Deirdre Griswold The recent film “War Machine,” made by Brad Pitt and released by Netflix, centers around an egotistical general commanding U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Its message boils down to this […]
Friday 9 June 2017Women Excluded Again from Afghanistan’s Peace Talks
Participation by Women Even More Urgent in Light of Recent Attacks in Kabul
Friday 9 June 2017HRW Letter to NATO Members on civilian protection in Afghanistan
Source : Human Rights Watch Dear NATO Members, At last year’s NATO Summit in Warsaw, member states endorsed a new policy on the protection of civilians. This policy came at a crucial time, […]
Tuesday 6 June 2017BAHRAIN: another hearing against Nabeel Rajab
Source: FIDH New information BHR 006 / 0812 / OBS 048.28 Arbitrary detention /Judicial harassment Bahrain May 29, 2017 30 May 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s trial related to TV interviews was postponed for the 8th […]
Tuesday 6 June 2017Resisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically
Source : Human Wrongs Watch By Robert J. Burrowes* DAYLESFORD, Australia, 1 March, 2017 – It is already clearly apparent, as many predicted, that Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would signal the start […]
Tuesday 6 June 2017Is Daesh really in Afghanistan?
Source: TRT World Author: Ali M Latifi As the militant group steps up its attacks in the country, Afghans still see Daesh as a mysterious foreign entity whose makeup and intentions remain unclear to both officials […]
Tuesday 6 June 201750th Anniversary of Israel’s Military Occupation of Palestine
Position of Human Rights Organizations on the 50th Anniversary of Israel’s Military Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip On the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and […]
Tuesday 6 June 2017Missing: Political Creativity – Vox populi, vox dei
Source: TRANSCEND Media Service (TMS)/Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism By: Johan Galtung A key slogan during the student revolt in Paris May 1968, soon 50 years ago, was Imagination au pouvoir! Bring imagination to power! We […]
Thursday 1 June 2017