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Edward Said - 10 years on
A decade after his premature departure, Said’s life, in all its “disorganised, scattered, uncentred” richness will continue to radiate moral and intellectual sustenance, as well as untold surprises and...
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Russell Brand was right - 'left/right' politics in the UK is over
A former BBC editor argues that the system is close to breaking point and meaningful voting and participative democracy, rather than revolution, must be the answer.From where I stand – fifty-something...
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The Lobbying Bill fiasco - parliament has been abused
Charities are set to be silenced. The Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee explains the appalling process by which this government has bulldozed its astonishing Lobbying...
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Mismatch: why are human rights NGOs in emerging powers not emerging?
There is a perverse see-saw effect in place within the BRICS countries. In Brazil, as the government grows in prominence and companies become more global and voracious, human rights NGOs face a...
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Now is the time to invest in China’s nascent rights groups
Even as China grows in wealth, it has yet to fully develop a culture of philanthropy – one that is free and clear of government influence and able to effect real change in human rights. Large donors...
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The state of global human rights philanthropy
Using the first-ever data-driven effort to track global human rights funding, representatives from two major global funding networks based in the U.S. and Mexico respond to James Ron on the current...
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Internationalizing rights-based resistance in China: the UN Human Rights...
Chinese activists are gradually strengthening the framing of domestic grievances with the vocabulary of international human rights, marking a departure from locality-specific episodes of contention.On...
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Can you change the world from your living room?
Americans with different political views may yell at each other but they rarely talk or listen. It’s time to revitalize a different form of political conversation. This is the third article in our...
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Kabul: the humanitarian city
Initially mandated to protect and assist, the humanitarian project in Kabul has assumed the role of governor and significantly reshaped the city over the past decade. In the absence of democratic...
View ArticleEgypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 8 - 14 November
This 'You tell us' feature offers some first hand accounts and a range of opinions in blogs, articles and tweets, first and foremost from the people of Egypt.November 8Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy,...
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Russia’s spinning moral compass
Vladimir Putin’s latest political course as president – from the jailing of Pussy Riot to the law against gay ‘propaganda’ – strikes many as being one defined by the Russian Orthodox Church. But is it...
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Marxism and feminism have a lot to tell each other: can they find the words?
Thirty years ago women were writing of 'the unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism'. Though the two schools of thought cohabit uneasily, the recent annual Historical Materialism conference in London...
View ArticleUS interventions in East Africa: from the Cold War to the 'war on terror'
During the Cold War years, while British colonialists were being driven out of East Africa, the first US intervention in the region occurred in Zanzibar. It proved to be a model - many aspects of which...
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The BBC has to learn to listen to itself
The new Director General wants to overhaul the BBC's corporate culture. This doesn't need management reform or expensive consultants, says Nick Fraser. It just needs the BBC to get better at listening,...
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Human rights: the global expansion
Southern populations and activists don’t need leadership from northern human rights organizations. Instead, northern groups should support the most deprived southern populations in their own efforts to...
View ArticleGender and development debates: overlooking diversity
Twenty five years after Gita Sen and Caren Grown made an appeal for development practitioners to use the diversity of feminisms as a starting point to work towards achieving more just societies,...
View ArticleBankrupting democracy
Michigan’s political elite is pushing the city of Detroit—wellspring of industrial unionism, home of soul music—into bankruptcy. In the words of Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?”The city of Detroit -...
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Emerging ‘Unipolarity’ in Turkey’s political landscape
The issues change almost on a weekly basis, but the problem only becomes worse - the AKP’s slide into the grey area between majoritarian democracy and authoritarianism.People watch fireworks on 90th...
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Is a green energy revolution on the global agenda?
Climate rebellion is on the horizon. At the same time, governments globally, with rare exceptions, are deeply wedded to existing energy policies and will respond with some combination of accommodation...
View ArticleOut of the press box and onto the field
I am a player in NewCo. I have to publicly abandon any position as an observer or independent analyst of Pierre Omidyar’s new venture in news. Out of the press box and onto the field.I have a personal...
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