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Self-determination? Western encroachment? Understanding the Ukraine showdown, and other international reports

Info tech leaving its mark everywhere

Emma Watson is part of a fast-growing choir of decent like-minded people of good faith all over the world, united in the belief that all people, irrespective of their ethnicity or religion or nationality, must have inalienable human rights...

Focus on national politics in Brazil, Chile, France, Honduras, Libya and Turkey, and saving the planet

New attacks on press freedom, and new tech twists for 2022

Over the past two weeks, Israel has launched an unprecedented and blanket attack on Palestinian human rights defenders beginning with the designation, on 19 October 2021, of six leading Palestinian human rights organisations as “terrorist” groups.

Palestinian human rights activists and civil society groups are not "terrorists." The effective criminalization of Palestinian institutions and the expansion of the settlements are two sides of the same coin.

Sudanese women took part in the revolution in large numbers for the same reasons they are now part of the resistance against this treacherous coup: Their human rights are at stake.

Unless he holds everyone to the same level of accountability, Biden will end up holding the bag for Tel Aviv’s latest Palestinian crackdown.

From Berlin housing referendum fight, three essential building blocks for success—targeting the broad middle of society, a plan to win, and precise political work—show the way forward