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Quetta’s enduring savagery: ethnic cleansing or sectarian violence?
Ethnic cleansing is a crime under international law. In the case of Pakistan, we see a cold-hearted and detached response by the federal government. Who then should be held accountable for these...
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Speak softly but carry a big stick: India’s Pink Sari revolution
While the group uses reason and dialogue to act as mediator in domestic disagreements, in some cases however, the women have resorted to use of the lathis when the offenders refuse to listen.Uttar...
View ArticleHome Secretary, please call off the attack on kidney patient Roseline Akhalu
If Theresa May wins her legal battle to have a Leeds transplant patient deported to Nigeria, Roseline Akhalu dies. If Roseline wins, where is the harm?In Parliament last week Greg Mulholland, the...
View ArticleThe Bangla Language Movement and Ghulam Azam
As the world celebrates International Mother Language Day in memory of the Bangla Language Movement, Bangladeshis at Shabagh would do well to understand one of its forgotten language soldiers.The...
View ArticleSyria's war, Israel's trap
The prospect of a chaotic endgame in Syria and more instability in Egypt is leading Israel further in the direction of a "fortress-state". This military entrenchment reflects not strength but...
View ArticleWhat the BBC conceals on private prisons research
The national broadcaster fails to inform the public that ‘independent’ research urging more prison privatisation was funded by private prisons contractors.The BBC’s flagship Radio 4 Today Programme...
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Ulyanovsk: no homes for heroes, but plenty of money for an art prize
Many aging Russian WWII veterans live in appalling conditions, and some die before they can cash a government rehousing grant. By law, families should inherit the money, but some regions deny them it....
View ArticleKenya’s elections: a make or break moment?
Critically, international election observers (including around 70 observers from the EU) must maintain a strong local presence throughout the election period. The international community must not be...
View ArticleWhose news is it anyway?
There is no way back to an untranslated world: in our globalised era, we want to know what is happening elsewhere and we want to hear it from real people.A panel debate last night in London discussed...
View ArticleQatar moving closer to Algeria?
The intensification of economic cooperation - which is very advantageous to both – might be a way to achieve a deepening of political relations, in the context of a possible evolution of regional...
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Six characters in search of a country - the Italian vote elsewhere in Europe
As Italy is heading to the polls on Sunday for ‘the most important election in 30 years’, the vote of Italians living abroad will partly determine the formation of the next government. How do these...
View ArticleNo going back
Only recently, we were the world’s worst failed state. Look at us today.In recent days a court case in Mogadishu has attracted attention all over the world. The details of the case are not for me to...
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Nationhood and the multitude: a new form of political subject?
In the frantic search to find an agreed name for emerging forms of collective agency, ‘the nation’ is frequently presented as an outdated inconvenience. This hasty generalisation fails to acknowledge...
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Unpacking ‘the 99 per cent’
Occupy has spotlighted the super-elite, but the ‘average Brit’ that is pitted against this class does not exist. For the struggle to empower all citizens to succeed in Britain, mapping actual wealth...
View ArticleDon't reform, misinform: UK press vs Leveson
The newspapers are creating a wall of noise in the hope that the recommendations of the Leveson inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press are drowned out or fade away. The...
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Arrest and custody, Russian-style
Police custody, violence, trials and imprisonment have been all to common features on the Russian protest landscape since December 2011. A grassroots monitoring project called OVD-info has kept...
View ArticleEurope's Middle East policies: a southern European twist
More coordination and strategy are needed in Europe's response to the sinister signs of stolen revolution. The political-strategic impulse has come from the south in the past. In the current economic...
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Beppe Grillo's Five Star revolution
There is no telling what the outcome of today's remarkably uncertain Italian elections will be. But the real story might just be Beppe Grillo's Movimento 5 Stelle, which could become the third...
View ArticlePhilanthropy towards asylum seekers: friend or foe?
Due attention must be given to the decision-making processes and rationales that underpin and politicise philanthropy towards asylum seekers in the UK. Otherwise there is a danger that philanthropy...
View ArticleA transformative strategy: the true value of investing in women’s rights
What happened to the largest pot of money ever made available for advancing gender equality and human rights ? Srilatha Batliwala reports on the results of AWID's aggregate analysis of the impact of...
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