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Corruption, the common denominator in Tunisia
An ordinary citizen in Tunisia must ask if the new constitution will change anything in the near future. There are only two things that will give hope; to see projects being implemented, and to see...
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The inconvenient truth about child brides
It is easy for states to ratify all the necessary conventions and take all the necessary legal steps in outlawing child marriages. However, it is the very social system that produces child brides that...
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Turkey’s new internet law: policing the online mall
Since the protests in Gezi Park eight months ago freedom of expression has coming under increasing attack, both on and offline. A new law now threatens digital civil society further, handing the...
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UK watchdog takes another bite out of failing outsourcer G4S
Commercial outsourcers fail and fail again. Privatisation hurtles on. The Public Accounts Committee has been interrogating executives and civil servants about the degradation of asylum housing in...
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Activists and elites: connecting the dots
The discussion about elites and grassroots in the human rights movement is important – but can sometimes confuse as much as it illuminates. In recent months, a bevy of openGlobalRights authors have...
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Breaking up with lame: protests in Bosnia
On the fifth day of ongoing demonstrations in Sarajevo, a routine is establishing itself and there is a feeling of something new in the landscape of Dayton-constitution Bosnian purgatory – citizens are...
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The transforming power of metaphor
Metaphors are the basic building blocks of how we think and communicate with one another. Let’s use more that speak to the highest elements of human nature, not just war and competition.Credit:...
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Power and money in Ukraine
Protest in Ukraine initially seemed to reveal a country sharply divided into the pro-Europe west and pro-Russian east. But there are signs that shared issues of civil rights and democracy are gaining...
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Greek police make life "unliveable" for asylum seekers
The head of the Greek police was secretly recorded saying that asylum seekers who land in Greece must be made to reside in "unliveable" conditions before being "repatriated".The issue of migrants dying...
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Green but not in the way you might think
Greece is a nation afflicted with polarized political forces. Could the Greek Green Party’s latest MEP nomination foment anti-Israeli sentiments and escalate this polarisation? What does the European...
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From Kiev to Kosovo: a critical juncture
From Ukraine to the Balkans, the last twenty-four years have witnessed political elites preaching democracy while surreptitously undermining every single democratic institution, atomizing individuals...
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State and revolution
The Arab world, after analyzing the nature of states in the Middle East, needs to find its own indigenous path to democracy, based on its own unique historical, and societal conditions.The title is...
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Taming Tahrir (Part 2): re-appropriating Al-Midan and co-opting memory
By replacing the cement block with gates, the regime is not only curtailing the infrastructure of protest and dissent, but it is also destroying many of the meanings that Tahrir stood for: freedom,...
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Egypt and al-Qaida, the prospect
A cycle of military repression and violent jihadi resistance in Egypt threatens to eclipse the democratic hopes of the Arab awakening. Three years ago, in late 2010 and early 2011, the remarkable...
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Saving privacy from deformed democracy
With focus on the government's grip over surveillance, the public debate over privacy has ignored citizen-led data initiatives to regain power in the digital age - and the war being waged against them....
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The same creed: a conversation about Scandinavian democracy with Bo Lidegaard
"In my eyes, there is nothing in the Scandinavia model that suggests that we cannot compete. Actually, there is a lot to suggest that we are the most competitive social model on earth". Interview.Bo...
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Françafrique and Africa’s security
Crises in Francophone Africa, as in Mali and the Central African Republic, cannot be solved by military action by the former colonial power. Root causes must be tackled, engaging civil-society actors,...
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The myth of the black widow
Fears of terrorism surrounding the Sochi Olympics have seen much talk of ‘Black Widows’ and the 'Caucasus Emirate,' but do these headline-grabbing terms obscure the real nature and origins of terrorism...
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In the carbon wars, big oil is winning
We humans have a choice: we can succumb to carbon’s gravitational pull and so suffer from increasingly harsh planetary conditions, or resist and avoid the most deadly consequences of climate change.We...
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Stripping UK citizenship by stealth
Despite official denials, evidence has emerged that the Home Office has deliberately waited until UK citizens it plans to deprive of their citizenship have left the country. This requires no judicial...
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