Syria’s agony has been a critical factor in the surprise outcome of Iran’s presidential election. Iran’s Supreme Leader has risked a second opening to the west by allowing Dr Hassan Rouhani’s election to stand. The west must respond urgently in kind.
Plus que tout autre pays, l'Afrique du Sud est considérée comme devant être un défenseur et un promoteur des droits de l’homme en raison de son passé. Le pays a le potentiel d’être à l’avant-garde du combat pour un ordre international plus démocratique.
As an emerging economy with a growing work force, India believes it should have a voice in global affairs. No one disagrees. But then, on crucial foreign policy issues, India should take initiatives that seek an end to human suffering. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Emerging Powe
Como una economía emergente con una fuerza de trabajo en crecimiento, India cree que debe tener voz en los asuntos internacionales. Nadie está en desacuerdo. Pero entonces, en asuntos cruciales de política exterior, India debe tomar iniciativas que puedan buscar terminar con el sufrimiento humano.
The continued existence of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act is a black mark on India's record: effective military dictatorship cannot accord with respect for human rights. Is the nation that prides itself on being the world's largest successful democracy lying to itself?
Ten years of majoritarian style AKP rule has turned Turkey into a polarized country, increasingly torn apart between contrasting worldviews and lifestyles.
The election of a reformist president in Iran realigns the geopolitical stars, and brings the possibility of diplomatic progress on Syria.
In Russia, homophobia is not just an attitude, but government policy, with new legislation reinforcing traditional hostility to sexual minorities and violence against gay people as common as ever. Svetlana Reiter discussed the situation with psychologist Vladimir Shakhidzhanian.
These various analytical approaches to Gezi fail to see the space, time and actors as “in process”; that is, not as being but as becoming.
The latest developments translate as the end of justice and legality as we know it. What we are experiencing is a ‘state of exception’ par excellence, in Agamben’s terms, as the rhetoric of ‘necessity’ is creating a ‘space devoid of law’.
All the opposition groups, almost without exception, had called for the boycott of the elections. Had Iranian voters listened, a worse candidate would now have won the presidency.
