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Two girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo
As Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin grew older, the childhood friends braved each their own hardships and tribulations. The first part of Jim Gabour's fiction offering tells about the pains and...
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A tale of two webs: Google v the hyperlocal
Now that rats can telepathically tweet without even wielding a mouse, will the tortoise of human organisation win the race, or fall victim to Google glass? Google Glass - the nerdy attachment to...
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Stephane Hessel: the ultimate European
How could someone be more European than Hessel by origin, shared culture and values - his cross-border, supranational vision making us ashamed of our weaknesses, our lack of vision and courage...
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Ethiopia: the ‘war on terror’ and the trial of 28 community leaders
The lies that creep out of the state’s mouth are justified as the protection of order, even when they are against the law, but a citizen’s lawful attempt to counter their lies is terrorism. As long as...
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43,960 children forcibly stripped naked in custody. Ignites memories of being...
• Children routinely strip-searched in England & Wales child prisons and secure children’s homes despite government pledge to stop• Nearly half were of Black or ethnic minority background, some as...
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Our voices: Conflict, displacement and land
Film: In this series of short films Burundian women look at key issues in the wake of the civil war, which ended in 2005. More than 1 million Burundians were internally displaced or forced to flee the...
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Requiem for a court
What is more important: to dispense justice or to achieve some kind of peace? The court in The Hague wrote the history of the Yugoslav dissolution by politically motivated parcelling of responsibility...
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How to build a foreign policy for introvert Europe?
The euro crisis has resulted in an even more introvert Europe, and everything has yet to be done to build a European foreign policy. So where should we start?German foreign and defence ministers meet...
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The BBC yet again presents a right wing think-tank’s work as objective research
It looks like a public body. It sounds like a public body. But Scotland's Commission on School Reform is the child of a privately-funded right wing think-tank. Why does the BBC play along?The BBC often...
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Our voices: Reconciliation and justice
Film: In this series of short films Burundian women look at key issues in the wake of the civil war, which ended in 2005. More than 1 million Burundians were internally displaced or forced to flee the...
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The Iranian key to the Syrian crisis
The deep implications of Iran's strategic and ideological investment in the Assad regime forces international efforts for a 'grand bargain' to face the stark and unpalatable reality of political...
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Bangladesh justice: damned if you do, damned if you don't
"One must ask what is the point in a trial where the only acceptable result is execution": have politics irreversibly stolen fair and impartial justice from the victims of the 1971 War of Liberation? I...
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Who wins at ‘payment by results’? Ask shareholders at Serco, the company...
Serco, the company that inspects Britain’s schools, trains our armed forces, runs our prisons, maintains our nuclear weapons, and is taking over big chunks of our NHS, reported stunning financial...
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The battle for space in Barcelona: the 'rose of fire'
Beyond indignation and in the wake of a housing market crash, a series of daily battles are taking place on the streets of Barcelona over the use and purpose of urban space.Barcelona is a city...
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Stalin: still a dividing legacy among Russians
On the 60th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, with Russian and international TV news bulletins showing old footage of his life and his funeral, Alexei Levinson looks at how his legacy still divides...
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Secret courts in Britain: blink and they'll be a reality
The Justice and Security Bill is moving swiftly through parliament. Few appreciate the true extent of the threat to civil liberties and an open judicial system. The clock is ticking for the right to a...
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Chávez to eternity
This indeed is the authentic measure of the late president’s achievements: there is now no simple switch in Venezuelan public ideology – no going back. The turn in the post-colonial history of the...
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The Rohingya crisis of June 2012: a survivor's testimony
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Rakhine State in Burma, are among the most persecuted minorities in the world. Hamid sends a letter detailing the violence and exclusion his community continues to...
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Chavez: when great leaders die
When great leaders die their heritage is the power they usurped and failed to share with others (a visual montage).Click here for notes and references.SideboxesRelated stories: Chávez to eternityThe...
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Criminal law: HIV and violence against women
Recent court decisions in Canada on HIV non-disclosure are bad science, bad public health policy, and bad medicine for women, says Louise Binder The theme of the 57th session of the UN Commission on...
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