Truth is the legacy we want
An op-ed from six youth activists in countries where official truth seeking initiatives are underway or being demanded reveals commonalities in the search for dignity, truth and acknowledgment of...
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Turkey, the EU, and civil society: An incomplete revolution
Turkey’s campaign for EU membership has revolutionized funding for its civil society, but there is still a long way to go. A contribution to the openGlobalrights debate, “funding for human rights.”...
View ArticleMultiethnic and pluralist states here to stay
Pluralist states are a legitimate form of state organisation. Yet, do we properly understand the viability of this form of state structure in the twenty first century? This article unravels the values...
View ArticleOscar Pistorius: Shooting to kill
Can a white man be morally absolved if it is decided that he meant to shoot a an ‘imaginary black intruder’ rather than his girlfriend? Ché Ramsden explores the dark depths of colonial and apartheid...
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Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' bill: Pastor Martin Ssempa and the anti-gay lobby
You can now be imprisoned for life under Uganda's anti-homosexual law. It was pushed through by religious pastors, whose moralising arm-twisting has silenced moderate voices. If you disagree with them,...
View ArticleListen to Bosnia's plenums
After almost twenty years of stagnant purgatory under the Dayton constitution, it is Bosnians themselves who are building democracy, from the ground up.Reflective of a certain sardonic sense of humour...
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Educating Orthodoxy
The Russian Orthodox Church has been expanding its educational activities to include not only seminaries but universities offering a wide range of courses. But if you’re a woman, don’t even think about...
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Jordanians split over the war in Syria
Syrian state media accuses Jordanians of being rebel allies but this is to oversimplify. Many Jordanians do support the insurgency against Bashar al-Assad. But some oppose it and many others have grown...
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Film review: The Square
The author reviews the only documentary released to-date of the people's uprising in Egypt.There is no such thing as a comprehensive narrative of the Egyptian revolution. Anyone attempting such a thing...
View ArticleSpain’s Marches of Dignity, 22M, 2014: not anti-politics
The marches continue the collective resistance that has galvanized Spanish civil society since the 15-M occupation of the Puerta del Sol, but which is rooted in a long tradition and practice of...
View ArticleDemocratizing inequalities
Participation has become a necessary basis for institutional authority in an era of declining social mobility and government retrenchment. It has become a tool for sustaining hierarchies as much as a...
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The Labour Party's real challenge is finding a radical voice
Will the UK Labour Party ever really, vocally resist Conservative policies? They should be engaging young voters on global social inequality.The UK Labour Party has been challenged to a radical new...
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Security and status determination for urban refugees in Malaysia
It seems probable – and entirely reasonable - that it will take several years to build trust in a ‘new’ Myanmar that is safe to return to.But in a context of perpetual fear and insecurity, how will...
View ArticleWomen’s rights under threat in Iraq
Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has mounting sectarian division meant for the rights of women and girls?Last October,...
View ArticleThe greater (and shorter) decriminalisation story: it's the physics of...
Brian Winston explains how the hypothecated tax and the BBC have gone together for the last 92 years like love and marriage: ‘you can’t have one without the other’. The BBC has a wonderful story to...
View ArticleInvasion of the data snatchers
How Big Data and the Internet of Things means the surveillance of everything. There’s simply no way to forecast how these immense powers - disproportionately accumulating in the hands of corporations...
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The conscience of Syria: An interview with activist and intellectual Yassin...
A popular Syrian intellectual responds to questions on the Syrian conflict and the west. Throughout, Yassin confronts andreframes several western fears and constructs about Islamists, intervention and...
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On Lebanese sovereignty
The issue of what sovereignty means, and how it can be enforced, should not be confined to the defensive sphere alone. Increasing resentment against Syrians in the domestic sphere, and offhand...
View ArticleTurkey’s local elections, Erdoğan and the spectre of Gezi
People in Turkey are being forced to see the world as a zero-sum game between Berkin and Burakcan, to embrace one and condemn the other. Erdoğan is trying his absolute best to pull as many voters as...
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The shadowy hijacking of Bogota’s democracy
The Santos regime finally (and illegally) removed one of the few honest politicians in Colombia - the democratically elected, socialist Mayor Gustavo Petro - from office last Thursday, after only two...
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