Human Rights

Detainees Allege Torture in Detention

censorship

Why Saudi Regime Murdered Journalist Khashoggi in a Consulate

The Conversation

Turkish authorities couldn’t enter the embassy without permission from Saudi Arabia

Displaced and Refugees

The Surprising Successes of Community Work with Muslim Refugees in Germany

Frances Trix

I studied the most positive refugee settlement programs inside Germany

Displaced and Refugees

Trump Deporting undocumented Iraqis at risk of Arrest, Torture in Iraq

Human Rights Watch

ICE deported at least one person in violation of a court order in August

War Crimes

From Yemen to the Rohingya, Mass Atrocities against Civilians are the New Normal

Human Rights Watch

Whatever Happened to ‘Never again’?

Displaced and Refugees

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

Loubna Qutami

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

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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 […]

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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; […]