June 2013

Articles

• 2 June 2013, by Suzanna Khoshabi

  Neo-Fascism: The Beginning of a New Chapter in Europe’s History?

  Scattered across seven years, seven cities, and seven professions, nine of the victims of the ‘Doener murders’ had one thing in common: a shared status as immigrants in Germany. It took the (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Kathryn Rockwell

  Crossing the Line: Will the United States Intervene in Syria?

  Despite its best efforts, the Obama administration is sliding down a slippery slope towards intervention in Syria. A humanitarian crisis that has cost between 80, 000 and 120, 000 lives, and (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Bradley Castelli

  Muslim Minorities in Myanmar and Sri Lanka

  In the past year, tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have been rising in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Both states are home to minority Islamic ethnic groups that have forcibly assumed the role (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Anne Guay

  Kenyan Indemnities and Empire History

  Last October, three Kenyan elders won the right to claim compensation for their torture in British colonial prison camps after bringing their cases to the London High Court. The scale is of an (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Tariqa Tandon

  National Food Security Bill Debated in Indian Parliament

  India’s reports on hunger and malnutrition are abysmal. For a rapidly developing country, showing much promise for the future, it still remains a country with one of the highest rates of (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Sta Kuzviwanza

  The New Scramble for Global Farmland

  A recent article in the Guardian UK reporting land evictions in Laos and Cambodia has brought to attention, once again, the recent phenomena of global land grabs by private investors in Asia, (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Olivia Zeydler

  Avoiding Tragedy: A New Role of Corporate Involvement in the Aftermath of the Bangladesh Factory Collapse

  The April 24 collapse of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza factory took the lives of 1,127 individuals, and left more than 1000 injured. The tragedy gained significant international attention, shedding (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Bipasha Sultana

  The Endemic of Rape in India: Will the Newly Amended Rape Laws Address the Root of the Problem?

  Nation-wide protests have provoked a re-consideration of existing rape laws in India. These were triggered by the fatal rape incident in New Delhi this past December, in which a 23 year old (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Houda Chergui

  A Violent yet Successful Transition in Civilian Governance in Pakistan

  Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif was the victor of Pakistan’s recent National Assembly elections, his party securing 125 of the 137 seats needed to form a majority government. (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Michael Sabelli

  An Interview with Andrés Fontecilla of Québec Solidaire

  I want to start by speaking to you about your nomination as president of Québec Solidaire (QS), and what are you going to do to continue the development/growth of QS? To begin with, I was (…)
• 2 June 2013, by Joanny Bélair

  Is the Harper Government Going too far to Control Information?

  In our digital era, in which the media is so ubiquitous and people are so connected, we tend to think that we are well informed. However, it appears that for the state, it is not very difficult to (…)