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Spain’s Moroccan Enclave: The Story Behind the Picture

Human Wrongs Watch Nador, Morocco, 9 January 2015 (IRIN)* – Late last year an image went viral. In it two golfers, dressed in white on lush green fairways, appear oblivious as in the background around a dozen migrants try to scale…

Today more than ever, nonviolence must triumph

I live in Paris, more precisely in Seine-Saint-Denis in an adjacent suburb (you may know this area which is often talked about, as it “burns” regularly) and like all here, since the massacre that took place in the premises of…

Je suis Charlie – but I have other names as well

Victor Grossman – Berlin Bulletin No. 82, January 9, 2015 (revised corrected version January 10) Monday evening I had planned to write about the PEGIDA movement in Germany. Although in Dresden, their city of origin, the number of bitter marchers…

Life, the universe and the NHS crisis

By CARL WALKER For Open Democracy, Our NHS The [UK National Health Service] NHS is in crisis like never before – but the political game ignores the real causes of the problem. Accident and Emergency services have gone into unprecedented…

Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute and other international instruments

By Nicolas Boeglin (*) Last January 6th, the United Nations Secretary General issued a note indicating that the Rome Statute, the treaty that establishes the International Criminal Court (ICC), will enter into force in relation to the State of Palestine…

‘We need to find a way to live together’ – UN Chief on Horrific, Despicable Attack on ‘Charlie’

Human Wrongs Watch Making an impassioned appeal for tolerance, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 8 January 2015 called for understanding among all communities to heal the tensions within societies – a particularly poignant plea following Wednesday’s horrific attack on the staff at French…

Sri Lanka congratulated on its new state-of-change and new president

A decisive new stage in the political life of Sri Lanka has arisen as a result of the people making a political choice, which overwhelmingly affirms the commitment of Sri Lankans to democracy and thereby the rule of law and…

SRI LANKA: AHRC welcomes people’s victory and calls for CJ’s resignation / impeachment

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: AHRC Welcomes People’s Victory and Calls for CJ’s Resignation / Impeachment  A decisive new stage in the political life of Sri Lanka has arisen as a result of the people’s…

Hong Kong Post Occupy Central – The Likely Consequences

We reproduce below the circular of Steve Vickers & Associates (SVA) which is a specialist risk mitigation, corporate intelligence, security and consulting company serving financial institutions, private equity funds, corporations, high net-worth individuals and insurance companies and underwriters around the…

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