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Last night around 10 o’clock, the long-awaited new text of the Paris Climate Agreement was released. Something that fell like a drop of cold water was the complete exclusion of the mention of human rights from the operative text of…

Dear members, Yesterday a rare thing happened. Politicians stood up in parliament and said they were worried about TTIP. [1] Peter Lilley, an influential Conservative MP (who was Trade Minister under Margaret Thatcher) said: “I am especially hostile to all…

By Rafael Ziegler for Big Jump Challenge In this interview, we spoke with H.E. Jorge Jurado, the first ‘water minister’ of Ecuador from 2008-2010 and since then Ambassador of Ecuador in Berlin. Jurado is a leading political thinker re-envisaging the…

An interview with Robert Fantina: Islamophobia, Palestine, Zionism, Militarism and more   Introducing Robert Fantina Interview by Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik e.V. Our interview with Robert Fantina about many matters we wanted to hear about from a US-critical perspective. Robert Fantina…

Alfred Nobel decided to give one fifth of his fortune for a prize to promote disarmament and resolution of all conflicts through negotiations and legal means, never through violence. It should go to “champions of peace” – to reducing or…

In Fantasyland Your Neighbors Live in, More War Is a Smart Idea By David Swanson People in the United States want tighter gun laws within the United States. They probably can’t be, and certainly aren’t being, polled on the U.S.…

Filibustering is a contentious issue in Hong Kong but this does not deter Legislative Council members Raymond Wong Yuk-man, Ray Chan Chi-chuen, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and Gary Fan Kwok-wai who plan to use the tactic to stall the Copyright…

From: JAMES ROBERT DEAL ATTORNEY PLLC To:  Governor Jay Inslee, PO Box 40002, Olympia, WA 98504-0002, 360-753-4110 fax, 360-902-4111 telephone Dear Governor Inslee, On September 3, 2015, I submitted a Petition for Adoption, Amendment, or Repeal of a State Administrative Rule to the…

We are now in a quite unique moment in history. All peoples on Earth live in a big common house. Nowadays you can no longer think that events that happen somewhere stay circumscribed for centuries. Everything and everybody is interrelated…

Elsie Tu, an old-style human rights fighter and veteran Hong Kong politician who took on a mandate to fight for the underprivileged, died December 8. 2015, at the glorious age of 102. This former Urban Councillor moved to Hong Kong in…