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Published in: openSecurityWhy the murder rate in Honduras is twice as high as anywhere elseHonduras' perfect storm of machismo, repression, corruption and impunity make it the murder capital of the world.
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Published in: openSecurityBusiness as usual in Mexico despite 43 murdered studentsThe Mexican government has shown remarkable inertia since the apparent police abduction and subsequent gang murder...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Nigerian state: no match for Boko Haram?The latest Boko Haram atrocity in Nigeria will not be the last. The incapacity of the state and looming elections...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new cold war Russia (again) won't winThe last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, burst the 25th-anniversary balloon of the symbolic end of the cold war by...
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Published in: openSecurityRana Plaza: the bottom-up route to workers’ safetyThe wellbeing of outsourced workers in emerging countries is often linked to western ethical consumption but the...
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Published in: openSecurityWar in peace: the big toll of small armsGlobal peacemaking efforts have focused on armed conflicts and weapons of mass destruction, yet many more are killed...
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Published in: openSecurityThe International Criminal Court must fix its anti-African imageThe International Criminal Court is often presented as "racist" in Africa because of its focus on indictees from the...
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Published in: openSecurityPresumed guilty: the quiet human-rights scandal of pre-trial detentionAround the world, millions are effectively punished before they are tried and many are subjected to violence and...
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Published in: openSecurityMexico: student disappearances focus anger at abuse and impunity
Students shot dead by police, others “disappeared”, mass graves located … the absence of the rule of law and...
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Published in: openSecurityDrone strikes in Pakistan: laser or blunderbuss?Attacks by US drones have often been presented as forensic, yet only one in 25 victims in Pakistan were identifiably...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat Arab partners will get in return for strikes on SyriaMuch of the analysis of the US-led attacks on IS has been from the American end of the telescope. But how does it...
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Published in: openSecurityKenya’s outlaw police
Developments in Kenya show what happens when “counter-terrorist” police and other security forces are not subject to...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy are police becoming more like soldiers?Militarisation of the police is a developing phenomenon, spreading into nominally democratic societies as the bonds...
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt’s cover-up
The military-backed authorities in Egypt refused entry this week to two top officials of Human Rights Watch, seeking...
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Published in: openSecuritySecret prisons, disappearances and tortureIn a ruling described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “landmark”, the European Court of Human...
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Published in: openSecuritySlow and steady: Hungary’s media clampdownThe Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, sent a frisson across the EU with his boast last weekend that he is...
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Published in: openSecurityThe flight from Mosul: “We left everything behind to save our lives”As the Islamic State has consolidated its hold in Mosul, those who do not share its extreme fundamentalism have been...
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Published in: openSecurity“Terrorism” and the US-led global order“Terrorism” has become a formulaic term in political discourse, often deployed as a device sustaining a US informal...
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Published in: openSecurityHow one man was stripped of his UK citizenship—twice
The UK home secretary has pushed legislation through Parliament which allows her to strip individuals of their...
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Published in: openSecurityBeyond Al Jazeera: Egypt’s chilling verdict on media freedom
The draconian treatment of three Al Jazeera journalists who have been sent to jail by a Cairo court amidst worldwide...
