By Will Higginbotham and Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7 2018 (IPS) – More than 200 million women around the world have experienced some kind of female genital mutilation (FGM) and more could be at risk, a UN agency said. Though the practice has declined in…
BY DALIBOR ROHAC* – Foreign Policy Central Europe’s populist revolt against the EU isn’t about safeguarding the West. It’s about rolling back freedoms and cozying up to Russia There are too many journalists.
By Idriss Jazairy* – Euractiv.com More people than ever are on the move globally. This raises the need for courageous European leadership and broad-based support from the media to depoliticise refugees and migrants and to free public opinion from irrational fear.
by Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Tax Justice Network produces a Financial Secrecy Index, ranking countries for the assistance their legal systems provide, to money-launderers, and to all people who seek to protect…
By Human Wrongs Watch* The United Nations refugee agency and its partners are ramping up to assist Bangladesh’s efforts to mitigate some expected impacts of the upcoming monsoon season in the country, during which, according to an initial risk analysis, at least 100,000…
By Isabel Marler and Macarena Aguilar* – OpenDemocracy/in Human Wrongs Watch Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are playing a key role. In the hastily-built displacement camps of Rakhine state, in…
Ben Tarnoff* – The Guardian Data has become the world’s most important resource. Now Silicon Valley giants want to keep government from standing in the way of profits One hundred and sixty years ago, the first transatlantic telegram traveled from Britain to the United States…
Editorial – The Guardian Trump happily applauded his own address to Congress. The rest of us should not Rituals are designed not merely to embody but preserve and perpetuate a community’s beliefs.
Analysis By Adam Taylor – The Washington Post Shortly before President Donald Trump used his State of the Union speech to criticize North Korean human rights abuses – even bringing out one remarkable defector, Ji Seong-ho, who escaped terrible conditions in that country –…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD – The New York Times There’s a level at which — when you consider that the president of the United States has cozied up to a foreign power that tampered with an American election, has repeatedly assaulted the country’s courts and its law enforcement and…
