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Global Citizenship in Ecuador: The Gap Between Principle and Practice

By Nelsy Lizarazo. Universal or global citizenship is, according to the Dictionary of Humanitarian Action a principle, category or condition thanks to which anyone in any part of the world may be recognised as a subject with rights. It’s an…

Japanese Way of Using the Past to Explain the Present

At the New York Day of Remembrance for Japanese-Americans on Saturday, March 26, people gathered at the Japanese American United Church not just to remember the past but also to understand the present moment. Film director Konrad Aderer underlined the…

Humanitarian groups refuse to partake in ‘mass expulsion’ of refugees

‘It is incomprehensible how Europe has basically suspended the rights of these people who are looking for protection in Greece’ by Nika Knight, staff writer for Common Dreams In a stinging rebuke to Europe’s political leaders, four prominent humanitarian groups…

Staying human on Good Friday

Today is Good Friday, a major holiday in the Western Christian traditions. My family being mixed Christians always had two Christmas holidays and two Easters and so on. For us children growing up in the Bethlehem area, there was a nice rhythm and…

Peruvian trade unions challenge union busting law

On Friday, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) responded to a trade complaint filed last summer by ILRF and Peruvian trade unions to challenge the NTEP law and other abuses. DOL released a report that confirms what we’ve known for…

EU-Turkey deal: statement by Nils Muižnieks

Statement by Nils Muižnieks, COUNCIL OF EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Strasbourg, 21 March 2016 – Now that the EU Turkey deal has been reached, the utmost care should be given to its implementation in order to dispel a number…

Young voice of dissent about the current state of affairs in Hong Kong

 Hong Kong: Rita Kwan Wing-yee delivered a tirade against Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s government during a special meeting on retirement protection held by the Panel on Welfare Services March 14 2016, identifying herself as “a citizen who loves Hong Kong”. The following is extracted from…

Bangladesh: too many ‘disappeared’; too little accountability

Bangladesh needs to develop an active human rights attitude within government and its political parties, which state of affairs is far from what it should be in today’s  Bangladesh as citizens disappear with some regularity, telling of the impunity enjoyed by…

Europe: missing persons and ways to support victims

Nine ways for European governments to establish the truth about missing persons and support victims Strasbourg, 17 March 2016 – “The protracted inability of European countries to shed light on the fate and whereabouts of tens of thousands of persons who are…

Will the EU become a criminal Union tomorrow?

The EU that has peace as it’s top goal and received Nobel’s Peace Prize? The EU with Schengen and Dublin? The EU with “European” values, humanism and mission civilisatrice that tells others how to live in accordance with international law…

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