When a fire starts to burn: who wants to be national?

In this concluding piece of the re-birth of the nation series, the debate’s editor asks what these articles tell us about the left’s troubled relationship with ‘the nation’. How might these arguments inform efforts to develop a thinking politics outside of the party system?

L’heure est à un nouveau type de débat en matière de droits mondiaux

Bienvenu à openGlobalRights - un projet multilingue qui vise à unifier les gens du sud et du nord dans une discussion sur l’avenir des droits de l’homme.

Challenges and opportunities in a changing world

Emerging powers are starting to wield some clout on global rights but they need to do much more says Amnesty International’s Secretary General. Translations: Türkçe, Español, 中国语文, العربية

Değişen bir dünyada zorluklar ve fırsatlar

Uluslararası Af Örgütü’nün Genel Sekreteri: “Yeni ortaya çıkan güçler, küresel haklar üzerine bazı güçleri ve yetkileri kullanmaya başladı, ancak bu çabanın artarak devam etmesi gerekiyor”

التحديات والفرص في العالم المتغير

يفيد الأمين العام لمنظمة العفو الدولية، سليل شتي، أن القوى الناشئة قد بدأت في ممارسة بعض الضغوط على الحقوق العالمية، ولكن يتعين عليها القيام بما هو أكثر من ذلك بكثير.

Desafíos y oportunidades en un mundo cambiante

Poderes emergentes comienzan a ejercer poder sobre derechos globales, pero necesitan hacer mucho más, según el Secretario General de Amnistía Internacional.

不断变化的世界蕴藏着挑战与机会

新兴国家开始在国际人权方面发挥一些影响力,但是他们还需要做更多。

——国际特赦组织秘书长

Turkey and the neo-Ottoman approach to human rights

Erdoğan is trying to carve out a role for Turkey as the protector of the rights of Muslims worldwide while punishing dissent within its own borders. Translations: Español, Türkçe

Türkiye ve Yeni Osmanlıcı İnsan Hakları Yaklaşımı

Erdoğan, Türkiye için dünya genelindeki Müslümanların haklarını koruyucu bir rol oluşturmaya çalışırken, kendi ülkesi sınırları içindeki muhalif görüşlüleri cezalandırmaktadır. 

Turquía y el acercamiento neo – Otomán a derechos humanos

Erdoğan está tratando de forjarse un rol para Turquía como el protector de los derechos humanos de Musulmanes en todo el mundo mientras castiga a los disidentes en su propia frontera.

Kyrgyzstan, violence vs justice

The chaotic scenes at the trial of a man charged over inter-ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan are damaging the legal process, reports Mihra Rittmann.

North African diversities: Algerian tales, Maghrebi dreams

A career in journalism took Francis Ghilès to the heart of power in the post-independence states of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. He saw at first hand how the oil and natural-gas industries in Algeria fuelled state ambitions, political rivalries and dreams of open frontiers. In a rich personal reflection, he asks whether the legacy of these years - including current threats to security and livelihood, from terrorism to unemployment - can lead the Maghreb and its European neighbour at last to cooperate in their shared interest. 

The closure of ERT: public service broadcasting and austerity politics in Greece

On Tuesday, the Greek government announced the immediate closure of their public broadcaster, ERT. This simple piece of news from Greece came as a shock to the world. Yet this event is symptomatic of the relatonship between media and politics in today's world.

Letter from Tirana: Who is a guest in Europe’s house?

The political establishment has a decisive role in determining the place of hatreds in society; with adequate rules, laws and institutions it can marginalise and neutralise or, on the contrary, tolerate and encourage them. 

Populism: a European warning shot and what to do about it

This sudden emergence of populism was in fact a true sign of modernity. This is what you might describe as a warning shot – and when you see it happen, you have to realize that something is very wrong with democracy. An interview.

Ikaria: a reply to Anthony on the 'secret of longevity'

Ikaria is everything that our society, our obsessive consumerism, our corporate madness, our worship of technology, the IMF, the Eurosceptics, the EU, Angela Merkel and the rest despise.

Doin' it for themselves

The women’s self-help movement is alive and kicking in Ukraine, with a range of group classes designed to get women out of the kitchen and into society. But with women outnumbering men — by 5:1 in popular conscience — is it surprising instruction is largely devoted to ‘catching one’s man’?

The future of humanitarian action to be decided in Medellin

It will be decided in these new types of situations that are neither war nor peace, a new kind of menace facing cities worldwide.

India in the early twenty-first century is not 1930s Germany

The Modi camp seems to have studied Chinese success in keeping saturation control over the media. But Indians are split along caste, language, dialect, regional, religion, not to speak of class. India is vastly different from Germany.

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

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