Our Sunday Comics columnist reflects on the various origins of poor boys
Umar is 25 and from Gudermes in Chechnya. He is gay. What can the future hold for him in the macho, dzhigit, society he inhabits? He talked to Kseniya Leonova, the first time he has told anyone his story.
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.
Ten years of majoritarian style AKP rule has turned Turkey into a polarized country, increasingly torn apart between contrasting worldviews and lifestyles.
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.
More than most, South Africa is expected to be a defender and a promoter of human rights, because of its past. The country has the potential to lead the way in pushing for a more democratic international order. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Emerging Powers and Human Rights. Espa
Más de la mayoría, Sudáfrica, se espera sea un defensor y promotor de derechos humanos, gracias a su pasado. El país tiene el potencial de marcar el camino para un orden internacional más democrático.
