Human Rights Watch* Ten Principles for Protecting Refugees and Internally Displaced People Arising from Burma’s Rohingya Crisis. Report from Human Rights Watch 1.
Opinions of Carles Puigdemont and Guy Verhofstadt This is not just about Catalonia. This is about democracy itself Carles Puigdemont * – The Guardian Spain has imposed a political agenda that goes against the will of the majority of Catalans.
Perry* – The Nation Trump and the GOP blame mental illness for the Texas massacre. That’s a destructive lie.
By PEPE ESCOBAR* – ASIA TIMES Princes, ministers and a billionaire are ‘imprisoned’ in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton while the Saudi Arabian Army is said to be in an uproar The House of Saud’s King Salman devises an high-powered “anti-corruption” commission and appoints his son, Crown…
By Rebecca Shapiro* – The Huffington Post Three of the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history happened in the past year and a half. Orlando, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs: three of the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history all happened in the past 17 months.
By Kai Wright* – The Nation Strength in numbers is more powerful than naming and shaming. June Barrett left Jamaica and migrated ?to the United States, looking for safety. It was 2001, and her increasingly open identity as a queer woman was making life untenable back home.
Jonathan Watts* – The Guardian An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian data analysis shows Hundreds of millions of urban dwellers around the world face their cities being inundated by…
By António Guterres* UNITED NATIONS, Nov 1 2017 (IPS) – When we discuss global interconnection in relation to energy, we are at the centre of the two key words that express our global concerns – sustainability and inclusivity. We want to make sure that we move into a situation…
by Pratap Bhanu Mehta – The Indian Express How the Chinese Communist Party has buried the revolutionary spirit of 1917 The 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this month has passed without too much discussion. This is for entirely understandable reasons: The meaning…
Christiana Figueres* Doctors have revealed that millions are already suffering the effects, in the spread of infectious diseases, uneven crop yields and longer allergy seasons When the doctor tells you that your cholesterol is too high, you tend to listen and change your…
