It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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human rightsIn 2010, Kazakhstan takes over the chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Increasingly strident attempts to muzzle independent voices in the Kazakh media suggests how the government is preparing itself, says Irada Huseinova
An exchange between renowned novelist and jailed ex-oligarch opens a buried history
The middle classes the world over have spent 20 years swapping their freedoms for security and prosperity. While Putin delivered this neo-Hobbesian bargain in Russia, its ur-model is Singapore
The human rights activist worked tirelessly to hold the Kremlin accountable for its actions in Chechnya
A massacre in a Kurdish village in Turkey leads to a heated debate about 'the village guard system'
The problems of the world's poor are at their heart an issue of human rights. This sets a test for the world's powerful
Europe should not be deceived by recent concessions to the media, comments Irada Huseinova. Lukashenko's Belarus will remain a bastion of totalitarianism
Domestic violence, discrimination at work, and the deep moral questioning that grips this society
After profound disappointment with the discussions on "The equal sharing of responsibility between women and men in care giving in HIV/Aids" at the CSW, Tyler Crone issues a heartfelt plea to all women's rights advocates to get back into the streets and reach out hands.
In her concluding report from the launch of
a global initiative to reform Muslim Family Law, Cassandra Balchin finds
solidarity in diversity and a growing convergence around human rights values.
Muslim scholars and activists from forty eight countries are today
launching a global initiative insisting that in the twenty first
century "there cannot be justice without equality" between men and
women.
Universal rights should not be traded for a parochial British alternative
How to return moral authority to the Universal Declaration.
Planned changes to the BBC World Service's Russian programming spark debate
A neglected radical who sought to extend liberty and enlarge life is our contemporary
Russia's soul is alive thanks to old women, says Marina Biryukov Plus: Stella Rock on Russian pilgrimage
Why it's time for the state to say that execution contravenes a deeper law
The use of school-students to pick cotton further tarnishes the record of a repressive state
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