Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
When I was given Kate Cronin-Furman’s book Hypocrisy and Human Rights to review, I imagined a different kind of book. International law scholarship is now flooded with literature that posits human rights as the big lie. Seen as a product of the European Enlightenment and the handmaiden of (...)
Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal
TikTok’s efforts to provide locally sensitive moderation have resulted in it banning any content that could be seen as positive to gay people or gay rights, down to same-sex couples (...)
Twitter, texts, email … the psychological needs driving today’s vast and risky digital ‘writing experiment’
The notoriety of “postmodernism” has waxed and waned over the past 40 years. While a frequent reference point in the cultural criticism of the 1990s, the term was falling out of use (...)
On April 11 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadoran embassy in London. The pretext for the arrest was that Assange had skipped bail in 2012 on a British arrest warrant related to Swedish sexual assault charges from 2010. The real reason was that the U.S. government (...)
When the world saw the video of beefy police dragging Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London it was clear that the media had been alerted to film the spectacle. Ecuador had granted Assange asylum in the Embassy since 2012, to block his threatened extradition to the U.S. at the (...)
Carried out of the Ecuadorian Embassy last Thursday, Julian Assange cut a sad and desperate figure, clutching a book by Gore Vidal and calling for the UK to ‘resist this attempt by the Trump administration’. He is now being held at HMP Belmarsh. His arrest – inevitable since the political (...)
The indictment, charging him with hacking one password, may seem like good news; in fact, it’s an attack on investigative journalism.
Julian Assange’s strange seven-year residence in Ecuador’s London embassy has ended, and Assange, thanks to the American president he helped elect, is now in (...)
The red-and-white costume from Margaret Atwood’s novel has been donned by women from Ireland to Argentina
Women dressed as handmaids protest against US vice-president Mike Pence in Philadelphia, 23 July. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP
When US vice-president Mike Pence visited Philadelphia on (...)
If people wish to regain at least some control over their personal data, they must challenge platform capital as a whole, not just individual players.
Just 46 days after revelations that Cambridge Analytica harvested millions of Facebook profiles to predict and influence voters in the (...)
Great joy and relief came with the news this January 12th that French investigative judges issued an “order of final release” for Dr. Hassan Diab from a French maximum security prison. Dr. Diab, a sociology professor and Canadian citizen, was charged with bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue in (...)
The corporate-led ethical approach to supply chain management is a failure. The majority of participating companies are taking no action to ensure minimum conditions for garment workers.
The Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile published its first annual report on 18 December (...)
Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian sociologist and the founder and former International Coordinator of the “Women Living Under Muslim Laws” international solidarity organization. Helie Lucas also is the founder of “Secularism is a Women’s Issue.” Helie Lucas has long been a critic of Western (...)
Anissa Helie is an assistant professor at John Jay College. She has written powerful academic articles like Multiculturalist Liberalism and Harms to Women: Looking Through the Issue of the ’Veil’ and she wrote the Introduction: Policing gender, sexuality and ’Muslimness’ for the book (...)
Abstract
Objective We conducted a systematic review of the available literature on deaths, injuries and permanent disability from rubber and plastic bullets, as well as from bean bag rounds, shot pellets and other projectiles used in arrests, protests and other contexts from 1 January 1990 (...)
Liu’s death has sparked renewed fury about police brutality in the country.
Riots swelled in Paris for a third night, with hundreds of people protesting against police brutality and the recent killing of a Chinese man, Shaoyo Liu, on March 23 by police.
Riot police hurled tear gas at the (...)
NGO’s annual report warns that aggressive political rhetoric is creating a ‘hostile climate for refugees and migrants’
Toxic political rhetoric with echoes of 1930s hate speech is stirring up violence worldwide – including in the UK and US, Amnesty International has warned.
Kerry (...)
Human rights defenders are out in the cold at this moment: we have compromised allies on the left and the right.
The line of demarcation has been drawn. Is fear of Islam rational? or a mental illness, a phobia? Against the soon-to-be National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn’s claim that (...)
Within two weeks, I experienced Interpol in a European country, an interrogation cell in a police station, prison, solitary confinement and the threat to be extradited to a country ruled by a despot. This is the story of the complicity of the European authorities with Turkey and of a series of (...)
Presentation:
Maryam Namazie had been barred from speaking at the University of Warwick in the name of the Student Union. The Warwick SU has published a clarification concerning its stand we are reproducing below. Concerning the background, please refer to our website (article 37406), (...)
Dear supporters
As President of WASH, I feel that it is important that I comment about the recent controversy regarding the decision taken by The University of Warwick’s Student Union to prohibit Maryam Namazie from speaking on campus. For those unfamiliar with Maryam, she is a secularist, a (...)
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