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The Tunisian revolution three years on
Tunisia has moved from a romantic story to a testing ground for transnational political Islam, the global strength of the market economy and the potential for progressive politics and a new way of...
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Neither elites nor masses: protecting human rights in the real world
The diversity of human rights movements defies elite/mass labels. A response to the debate sparked by the Human Rights Perception Poll. Español.Over the past few months, openGlobalRights authors have...
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After Snowden: UN takes first small step to curb global surveillance
The debate on international electronic spying, blown open by the US National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden, moves this week to the United Nations General Assembly. It begins what is set...
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Victims no longer: Spain’s anti-eviction movement
For over four years, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) have responded to a national housing crisis through grassroots organising and direct action. To this day the movement has...
View Article"There is Marikana everyday in South Africa" - an interview with Abahlali...
Film: Struggling for the right to decent housing and against the criminalisation of poverty, South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo face severe police repression. Here S'bu Zikode...
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Austerity policies in Europe are fuelling social injustice - and violating...
A new report by the Council of Europe provides detailed evidence that austerity measures have corroded civil and political rights, made economic, social and cultural rights less attainable, and...
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The martial arts of social justice
Turning reaction into response and being flexible in their moves, Californian campaigners use capoeira tactics to fight zero-tolerance in schools.Capoeiristas in Brazil. Credit:...
View ArticleIs the WTO deal good news for multilateralism?
Resolving gridlock involves the search for a new kind of politics that builds on the many and various partial solutions to global challenges that can be found today. The only alternative is collective...
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This week's window on the Middle East - December 18, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: Water, water, everywhere.Water, water, everywhereIt's raining, it's...
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In Kenya, averting a move to strangle civil society with the financial noose
In October Kenya introduced legislation capping foreign funding to NGOs and requiring that money be channeled through a government body. Though narrowly defeated, the law looked to be a death-knell for...
View ArticleCanvassing for ‘None of the above’
Politicians are no longer middle class or working class. Rather, they are political class. They form, or appear to form, a tight in-group from which millions of citizens feel excluded. What is the poor...
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Turkey and neoliberalism, a prequel to #occupyGezi
The drive to reclaim a people's right to their city led to the revival of Turkish civic identity and highlighted the growing importance of social capital. Why did it take so long for Turkey?Street art...
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Istanbul in transformation
The Gezi park protests of June 2013 drew the attention of the world to a very urban conflict in Turkey's most populous city. Less covered, were the various micro-conflicts behind the scenes which led...
View ArticleEU and US both threatened by secret trade talks
This week’s talks, like the previous rounds, will happen behind closed doors. The negotiating texts will be kept secret from the public but not from the approximately 600 corporate representatives who...
View ArticleStill hideously white?
For the past four years, the former BBC network correspondent, Barnie Choudhury, has been researching why so few Black Minority Ethnic journalists ever make it to the highest echelons of the...
View ArticleNon-violence: past, present, future
An informative guide to non-violent activism worldwide offers a valuable, positive resource through difficult times. It is also a tribute to the lifelong work of its co-editor, Howard Clark. Have the...
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Slovakia: right-wing extremism on the rise
Marian Kotleba, a well-known figure of the Slovak neo-Nazi scene, was recently elected as governor of the central Slovak region of Banská Bystrica. Is this the mere consequence of a protest vote, or...
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Who’s afraid of partisan politics?
Bi-partisan deal-making is often celebrated as progress, but is it any basis for transforming politics in America? This is the final article in our series on trans-partisan politics.Credit: Kevin...
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Where are Europe's leaders?
How do we assess performance, visibility and power in a European context? And why has the EU's leadership failed to engage with Europe's citizens? (Video, 18 mins)The National Council for Voluntary...
View ArticleWhy the US should join forces with the Baathist regime in Syria
The Baathist regime is indeed guilty of great war crimes, but the human cost of a failed state would be a greater catastrophe. Washington should have learnt this lesson from Afghanistan, Somalia and...
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