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Problematic protection: the law on Elimination of Violence against Women in...
The attempt on May 18th to get the Afghan parliament to ratify a key law on violence against women ended in a fiasco and has been angrily dismissed as the politicking of a single ambitious female...
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Not everyone can be a world citizen
Recent calls for 'renewed' identities in the UK mean little so long as they fail to assess the role of the state in a multicultural society. Certainly, a fundamental recognition is needed: that it is...
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The myth of resettlement in Delhi
Since 2000, activist groups across India have sought to defend slum communities from dispossession in favour of 'participatory' resettlement on the urban periphery. The popularity of such reasoning has...
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Sri Lanka remembers to forget
Celebrations to mark the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war perform the function of collective forgetting. If the country looked back at recommendations made in the past, Sri Lankans might understand better...
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Desegregating Roma and Croat schoolchildren: what has been done?
Three years after the ECHR's decision in Oršuš and Others v. Croatia found "separate but equal" education to be unconstitutional, the Roma Education Fund traveled to Međimurje County in Croatia to see...
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Outsourcer Nick Buckles retires at 52, a multimillionaire
Security company G4S and its executives have got rich dismantling public services.Yesterday a man called Nick Buckles retired, aged 52, with a fortune in excess of £20 million. He is not an inventor or...
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How to vote for peace
In order to vote for peace, we must first vote for voting systems which are 'peace-ful'. Peter Emerson argues for consensus voting which allows for differences but mutual respect, is inclusive,...
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'Council democracy' - reform must begin with the local
Arendt, Jefferson and Maitland are three great thinkers who all shared a passion for the power of local democracy, its ability to bridge the distance of representation. As our political system breaks...
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"I protest": challenging the war policies of the United States
After serving in the US Army, and later as a diplomat, Colonel Ann Wright resigned her position in opposition to the US invasion of Iraq, 2003. She explains her opposition to the use of drones, and why...
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Romanian media in crisis
Romanian media is in a sad state, with newspapers losing stamina by the day and television channels shamelessly blasting the political messages favored by their owners. Independent journalism still...
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Join the party!
A concession or a ruse to ensure continued authoritarian rule? In the second of two articles examining changes in Russia's electoral architecture, Grigorii Golosov considers the recent relaxation of...
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The sadness of terrorism
Here we go again - London's atrocity exemplifies the banality of terrorism and the banality of the responses to terrorism It is intolerable that John Reid, who secretly planned the misconcieved British...
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The boundaries of Israeli unity
Two years ago, the rallying cry was "The people demand social justice", which was more open ended, proving its tenuousness in the question of Palestinian solidarity.Two years ago, the Israeli public...
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Rebranding London: when monoculture preys on the 'authentic'
The billboards go up. Regeneration is occurring. But don't worry, this development will respect local charm, traditions, the unique "vibe" of the area. So the billboard says, and what alternative is...
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Japan’s peace pledge under attack
Japan adopted its war-renouncing constitution following World War II, with Article 9 as a promise to itself and a pledge to the world to never repeat its mistakes. The debate provoked by Prime Minister...
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Syrian: is blood always thicker than water?
A year of living through a war which has transitioned to an unprecedented level of killing and massacres in this country has seen to a fracturing and fractioning of Syrian identity.Late one night, the...
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Filat’s gamble
Vlad Filat, until recently the Liberal Democrat Prime Minister of Moldova, is locked in a power battle with Vladimir Plahotniuc, the country’s one and only oligarch. This war of attrition threatens the...
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LGBT violence in the Balkans
Throughout the Balkans, LGBT advocates and their supporters face violence, cancelled Pride parades, and unresponsive or disrespectful police. What hope is there for sexual minorities in the...
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Filat’s Gamble
Vlad Filat, until recently the Liberal Democrat Prime Minister of Moldova, is locked in a power battle with Vladimir Plahotniuc, the country’s one and only oligarch. This war of attrition threatens the...
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Woolwich and Afghanistan: the connection
An understanding of the link between the shocking murder of a young soldier on a London street and "remote-control" attacks by western states is essential. In the London bombings of 7 July 2005...
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