Human Rights

The Lethal Nexus: Mass Shootings and Domestic Violence

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan(*)  – Democracy Now! You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in the U.S. this year.

Children

Child marriage and domestic violence: what we found in 16 African countries

By Anthony Idowu Ajayi * – The Conversation The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with nearly four in 10 girls married before age…

History

Poland’s Current Memory Politics Are Rewriting History

By Mikhal Dekel* – Boston Review  Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews. By This year, for the first time in history, an individual used Poland’s “Holocaust Law” to sue in a civil court.

Diplomacy

A Russian Move in Europe

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures  Russia and the European Union held a conference last week, during which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a speech: “The situation remains rather alarming. Our common European continent is experiencing an…

Civil rights

Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline?

By Sonali Kolhatkar* –  Independent Media Institute Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the…

Armed conflicts

How Israel Weaponizes International Law

By Maryam Jamshidi* – Boston Review The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar Naz…