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Articles by Abena Ampofoa Asare

Middle East and North Africa: Regime Change Redux

Abena Ampofoa Asare February 2, 2011 Abena Ampofoa Asare

The lesson of Tunis, Sanaa, and Cairo is that democracy rhetoric is more than a strategy for the assertion of American dominance. On the contrary, it is a language that fuses moral and political power into a radical claim that every human being deserves a voice in the decisions that affect their daily lives.

Gas flare near Nigerian community

Nigeria: Shell Oil’s ‘License to Kill’

Abena Ampofoa Asare October 19, 2010 Abena Ampofoa Asare

A judge in the Manhattan-based federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that transnational corporations who participate in gross human rights abuses cannot be held responsible for torture, genocide, war crimes and the like because, as corporations, their activities fall outside the jurisdiction of international law.

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