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5 September 2019, by Hala Al-Karib
Sudan’s Youth Showed Us How to Counter Sexual Violence

"We need to understand that sexual violence is not an unintended result of the actions of political regimes, but rather a key instrument of their power." In Sudan, sexual violence is a (...)
3 September 2019, by Sumanta Banerjee
Kashmir - Need for International Mediation

“The principle of non-interference with domestic jurisdiction state cannot be regarded as a protective barrier behind which human rights could be massively or systematically violated with (...)
1 September 2019, by Messaoud Romdhani
Gender Equality in Tunisia: Still A Long Way to Go

August 13, is a milestone in the history of women’s emancipation in Tunisia. In 1956 and just a few months after the independence of the country, the new government promulgated the code of (...)
1 September 2019, by Kavya Kamal
“Jammu Kashmir: They Make a Desolation and Call it Peace”

The abrogation on August 6 of Article 370 and 35 A, that provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir, received a mixed response. While politically the decision has been hailed by several (...)
1 September 2019, by Justin Podur
Imagine a Free Palestine

I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it. I wanted it to be a proximate dream, a dream of the next step from now, not a distant dream that depends (...)
1 September 2019, by Beena Sarwar
The Humanist Who Was Pakistan’s Malayali Comrade B.M. Kutty

He died wanting the same peace that his comrades, young and old, yearned and will keep working for. Early on Sunday morning in Karachi, a little over a month after his 89th birthday on July 18, (...)
1 September 2019, by Achin Vanaik
Hindutva on the March

Progressive Indians must oppose governmental violence against Kashmiris. The powers that would seek to deny the oppressed people of Kashmir the right to freely pursue their goal of collective (...)
30 July 2019, by Sumanta Banerjee
Indian Mass Psychology

The variety of post-mortem reports coming out from the analysis of the Lok Sabha election (held in April/May this year) results is quite confusing. Each contradicts the other. Some psephologists (...)
25 July 2019, by Samuel Earle
“A Mockery of What Democracy Is Supposed to Be”

Arundhatti Roy interviewed by Samuel Earle in The New Republic “In India,” Arundhati Roy wrote in 2002, “if you are a butcher or a genocidist who happens to be a politician, you have every reason (...)
25 July 2019, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
What Now, Brazil?

The words that come to mind the most are astonishment and perplexity. The Brazilian government has slipped into the abyss of absurdity, into an absolute trivialization of abuse and aggression, (...)