2017 has seen further violent police responses to protests against corruption and human rights violations. So how are Kenyans exercising their right to protest, and what can be done to protect this right?
For Max—poor, white, male and vocal—politics were a projection of the personal.
The more damaging development has been the role of the mainstream media in the face of the government attempts to muzzle it.
The 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and FARC includes explicit aims to improve democratic participation and protect the right to protest. But how are these goals being threatened?
من الصعب الوصول إلى تحوّل أو انتقال ديمقراطي سلمي سلس بدون إشراك مختلف الفعاليات المناهضة للاستبداد، بمختلف مرجعياتها الأيديولوجية من اجل اسقاط الاستبداد و بناء الديمقراطية.
If history is a lesson, without a robust human rights framework, international missions are more likely to add to, rather than prevent, violence.
“I left Afghanistan because I didn’t want to kill for the Taliban... I could not do that, but European life is very dangerous too: I never thought it would be like this.”
When the militarized interests of the nation trump the rights of citizens to challenge the actions of our government towards vulnerable ‘Others’, we are moving in a Nazi direction.
"Are people right to trust themselves and others to build a better and more equal society? I came to the Forum to see how." Report-back from the World Forum for Democracy 2017.
A year ago, Zac Goldsmith was kicked out of his Richmond seat, proving that a Progressive Alliance could work. One year and a general election later, was that it for plural campaigning?
Несмотря на откровенно гомофобную политику российских властей и угрозы насилия, ЛГБТ-активисты все чаще публично заявляют о себе и своих правах. English
New technology should be managed for the benefit of all – not used to allow profit-hungry firms to cherry-pick healthy patients.
