December 10th was Human Rights Day. This day is an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the importance of human rights in our increasingly interconnected world. Human Rights are basic freedoms to which all humans are entitled: the right...
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11 December 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Violence worsened on Monday (Dec. 2) between
anti-government mobs using a hijacked bulldozer, fire engine, garbage
truck and homemade explosives to attack police who responded for the
first time with rubber bullets...
06 December 2013
Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels.
A violent young rebel is imprisoned for decades but turns that imprisonment into...
A violent young rebel is imprisoned for decades but turns that imprisonment into...
05 December 2013
Every new revelation about the global reach of the National Security Agency underscores that the extremism of the surveillance state has reached gargantuan proportions. The Washington Post just reported that the NSA “is gathering nearly 5...
04 December 2013
While catching up with one another over the challenges facing ordinary Afghans and Egyptians, Sherif Sameer and I talked about how ‘opening our eyes’ could go a long way to building a better world. We decided to co-write this piece, from...
02 December 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The authoritarian leader of an increasingly
violent anti-government protest met Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
on Sunday (Dec. 1) and told her to resign so a dictatorial provisional
regime could run Thailand and...
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