Human Rights

Whatever Happened to ‘Never again’?

Jerusalem in Athens: Refugees, the Youth Left and the Crises of Nation and Capital

On Friday, December 8, 2017, hundreds of young Palestinians and Arabs poured out onto the streets in front of Athens Syntagma square

censorship

University of Michigan Professor Disciplined for Refusing to Write Student Recommendation Letter

contributors

October 16, 2018 Committee on Academic Freedom Middle East Studies Association of North America Elizabeth R. Cole Interim Dean College of Literature, Science and the Arts University of Michigan ecole@umich.edu Dear Dean Cole: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express […]

Human Rights

Cologne: 10,000 to Protest Turkey’s Erdogan on Human Rights

AFP

by Michelle FITZPATRICK | – Cologne (Germany) (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to open one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne on Saturday as he wraps up a controversial visit to Germany, with police deploying in force amid planned protests. The inauguration will be the closing event of Erdogan’s three-day state […]

censorship

Today, Europe Lost the Internet. Now, We Fight Back

Cory Doctorow

( Electronic Frontier Foundation) – Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like tweets and Facebook updates; […]

Colonialism

Human Zoos in the Age of Trump

Ariel Dorfman

Current policies echo an era when millions of Europeans and Americans considered it perfectly natural to treat fellow humans as beasts

Displaced and Refugees

World to 22 mn Refugees: Only 200K of You can be Helped

John Feffer

Donald Trump is at the forefront of this scandalously cruel approach to refugees. But he’s not alone.

Displaced and Refugees

“Death Sentence:” Dems Slam Sessions’ Denial of Asylum to Gang, Abuse Victims

Paul Handley

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Monday that victims of domestic and gang violence will no longer qualify for asylum

Children

UN: ‘Nothing Normal’ about U.S. Detaining Immigrant Children

TeleSur

The United Nations has called on the United States to stop detaining irregular migrant families and separating children from their parents