Reminiscent of Edward Said’s Orientalism, this new book argues that post September 11th human rights discourse is rooted in an imaginary consciousness in which the US is never a perpetrator.
Yanar Mohammed says the U.S. invasion and occupation hurt women’s rights.
This past December I attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP17 negotiations in Durban, South Africa, branded by social movements as the “Durban Disaster.”
Russia and China, two veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council described as key arms suppliers to the embattled regime in Syria, are now accused of supplying weapons and fueling an ongoing conflict in another military hotspot: Sudan.
If history ever repeats itself, it does so only when we fail to learn its important lessons. Israel might be prepared to take such chances, but why should the rest of the world?
Once Mubarak was driven from power, we saw that the “Republic of Tahrir” did not magically change everything. Women have continued to play a vital role in the protests and in many of the new political parties but their participation falls on deaf ears.
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