March 2012

Articles

• 28 March 2012, by Editorial, The Hindu

  Why only Africans?

  March 28, 2012 The first conviction at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the tenth year of its functioning is a good time to take stock of how well an institution that was designed to (...)
• 20 March 2012, by Robert Fisk

  Madness is not the reason for this massacre

  I’m getting a bit tired of the "deranged" soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar (...)
• 2 March 2012, by Marion Bauer

  International Involvement in Syria

  The Syrian revolution is now an urban war. Following similar demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, Syrians took to the streets last year to demand democratic rights and a regime change. (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Stephen Eldon Kerr

  Islam and the Liberated Egyptian Woman: An interview with Shahinaz Ahmed

  The Western media tends to view women in Islamic societies through a lazy and paternalistic eye. Bound by the Burqa and silenced by patriarchy, the women of the Middle East are objects of pity in (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Stephen Eldon Kerr

  Project Briefs

  Stop Online Spying Alternatives is in support of stopspying.ca. The Canadian government and Minister Vic Toews are currently trying to ram through an anti-Internet set of electronic (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Tamkinat Mirza

  The Shafia Trial: A Question of Assimilation

  The Shafia family honor killings in Kingston, Ontario are yet another instance of cultural conservativeness taken to the extreme, with tragic outcomes. The killings also showcase a less (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Tamkinat Mirza

  Debunking "Condoned" Honor Killings in Islam

  Faced with a rising number of reported cases of honor killings in Western countries, there is an increasing need to clearly understand the nature, motivation and rationale behind these crimes. (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Stephen Eldon Kerr

  Remembering Canada’s Missing and Murdered Women

  Across the world, Valentine’s Day is celebrated with love; in Canada, it is also a day when people march to remember hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Following the first march (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu

  Economic Crisis in Spain: A History of Mismanagement and Inequalities

  Despite having one of the largest economies in Europe Spain’s economy has stalled and national unemployment is on the rise. Over 5 million people in the country are currently out of work, a level (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Michael Reford

  Chilean Student Protests Challenge Status Quo in Education System

  The Chilean education system is in need of a massive overhaul, and Chilean students have taken it upon themselves to act. In a growing movement that has attracted support from hundreds of (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Stephen Zunes

  Syrian Repression, the Chinese-Russian Veto, and U.S. Hypocrisy

  As the Syrian regime continues to slaughter unarmed civilians, the major powers at the United Nations continue to put their narrow geopolitical agenda ahead of international humanitarian law. (...)
• 29 February 2012

  Why Does Russia Really Oppose International Intervention in Syria?

  As the Syrian death toll approaches 8,000, Russia stands firm in its supposed support of a strategy of non-interference and non-partisanship, maintaining that it is neither against nor in support (...)
• 29 February 2012, by Liza Ponomarenko

  Increasing Internet Censorship in Belarus

  On 6 January, Belarus’s Law 317-3 came into effect, restricting Belarusians’ Internet freedom with censorship similar to that of China. The new legislation implements Belarusian President (...)
• 29 February 2012, by ELIZABETH PAYNE

  Is Canada helping the world’s poor, or Canadian companies?

  Few Canadians have likely heard of the Canada Investment Fund for Africa. But, since 2005, it has been busy investing Canadian foreign aid dollars — $100 million of them, in fact — on companies (...)
• 29 February 2012, by AUDREY HUNTLEY

  ’Nobody cared, nobody did anything’: The normalization of violence against Indigenous women

  In the summer of 2004, while working as a producer for CBC News Sunday, I undertook a road trip to research Traces of Missing Women. My intent was to gather memories of Indigenous women who had (...)