Xenophobica in South Africa
“Afrophobia”? “Xenophobia”? “Black on black racism”? A “darker” as you can get hacking a “foreigner” under the pretext of his being too...
Achille Mbembe | Africa is a Country
Apr 16, 2015
The Betrayal of Human Rights and the Urgency of Universal Corporate Accountability
By Anna Grear and Burns Weston 1. INTRODUCTION The universalism at the heart of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) is, in aspiration...
Anna Grear and Burns H. Weston | The Authors
Feb 25, 2015
Mapping Bangladesh’s Political Crisis
Executive Summary On 5 January, the first anniversary of the deeply contested 2014 elections, the most violent in Bangladesh’s history,...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 9, 2015
Escape From a Nightmare
Refugees at the Kadei River, which marks the CAR’s border with Cameroon. © 2014 Marcus Bleasdale/VII for Human Rights Watch Aboubakar...
Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2014
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany. But is Angela Merkel doing anything about it?
Germany’s Jewish Problem Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany. But is Angela Merkel doing anything about it? By Benjamin Weinthal ...
Foreign Policy
Sep 25, 2014
Nepal: Conflict-Era Rapes Go Unpunished
Both government forces and Maoist combatants raped and sexually harassed women and girls during Nepal’s decade-long armed conflict, Human...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 23, 2014
Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the Shadows
By Jim Yardle SARCELLES, France — From the immigrant enclaves of the Parisian suburbs to the drizzly bureaucratic city of Brussels to...
New York Times 1
Sep 23, 2014
The NGO-ization of Resistance
A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance. It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an indictment of all...
Arundhati Roy | Toward Freedom
Sep 8, 2014
Gay Azerbaijan Teenager Set Ablaze by Homophobic Parents
A teenager fled for his life after being set ablaze in a homophobic attack by his own parents after they found out he was gay. The...
Dominic Glover, International Business Times
Aug 12, 2014
Europe has had a growing anti-Semitism problem for years now
Many news outlets, including the New York Times, are reporting that — since Israel launched its military operation against Hamas on June...
Genocide Watch
Aug 6, 2014
A Precarious End to Uganda’s Anti-Gay Act
Late last week, Uganda’s constitutional court struck down the country’s anti-homosexuality act, a law that mandates severe...
The New Yorker
Aug 5, 2014
Uganda: Program for Male Rape Victims Threatened by Antigay Law
Ironically, the same Ugandan police forces expressing willingness to help male victims of rape overcome stigma have been accused as...
Genocide Watch
Jul 29, 2014
