One can only wonder how the HRC can maintain its credibility while its member states are actively working against the council’s very raison d’être of protecting human rights.
Continued attacks on the transitional justice process in Tunisia will weaken the gains made by women, and prevent an inclusive transition to democracy.
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion ... if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love." (Nelson Mandela) English
Depending so highly on a single donor makes UNHCR the operational arm of the EU’s shortsighted policies. This is the third winter for UNHCR in Greece...
The Catalan question is not a national question, nor a question of a nation state, but a question of democracy.
The prevalence of Islamophobia in liberal discourse is part of the mainstreaming of anti-Muslim, anti-refugee and anti-migrant racism that many believe to be the territory of the far right. Book review.
Este año medio millón de argentinos alzaron los pañuelos blancos contra la impunidad por los crímenes de la dictadura, en la misma plaza en la que 40 años antes las madres comenzaron a marchar en soledad. English
A transnational movement-party, a hotbed of grassroots democracy capable of supranational solutions – why that matters to me.
Many in Tunisia feel that the lifting of the ban on women marrying non-Muslims is merely a small step, and greater democratic reforms are needed.
Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, activist, scholar, and daughter of Frantz Fanon, talks about the enduring relevance of his ideas and passions in contemporary political life.
The time has now come for Europe to make its voice heard, after Madrid’s brutal repression and its failure to listen to that many of its own people.
