Credit isn’t extended to help people get ahead. It’s the means for producing securitizable debt, which means financialization (one of the key features of neoliberalism) needs poor people, poor people cut off from public services and left to fend for themselves.
Xiaoyu Pu’s article notes that Chinese foreign policy – including human rights negotiations – seeks “common ground while preserving differences.” This reflects a world lacking in moral authority, the author suggests, and China could do better. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Emerg
We need a good reason to watch the stalking and slaughter of women, endlessly. And for this reviewer, Alan Cubitt didn't provide one.
The BBC needs to make a principled shift of resources in its drama offerings; less than it has spent in recent years in disposing of surplus bureaucrats.
We Jews have a duty, and an urgent one at that, to think through what religious freedom means.
The model for addressing women’s human rights, South and North, differs greatly from the definition of human rights originally promoted by the corporate human rights entities and, indeed, still promoted by many states and institutions. A response to Stephen Hopgood’s claim. A contribution to the o
The true nature of perversion is a turning away both from the real and from the imagination of what might transform it. A meditation on Euro-Disney and bad sex.
As six heads of state try and dominate chance in a darkened room, our Sunday Comics columnist takes us on a journey through the gambling culture of New Orleans, introducing us to the characters who ultimately have a lesson or two for our leaders
On top of those arrested in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, in the last three years alone, an estimated 10,000 political and non-political activists have been arrested on alleged PKK links.
At the end of June Prince Michael of Kent attended a retro aircraft festival organized by The Air Squadron in Ukraine. The Russian press always followed such events with adulation, but this event was hardly covered and the media have clearly decided that he is unworthy of their attention. Why?
The author responds to Camila Asano’s prediction in ‘Emerging powers and human rights’ of the considerable potential for Brazil to contribute positively to a global human rights agenda. A lot will have to change in the ‘global South agenda’ before that happens.A contribution to the openGlobalRight
