Tag: Solidarity

Israel seeks security, but Palestinians are after security as well as some perspective for a better life. In the absence of any hope that life can improve for Palestinians, we need not look for a change in the cycle of hopelessness and thus violence – as also mutual insecurity. Read More

It has been nearly three years since Qaddafi’s regime collapsed, after months of fitful combat between his militias and a patchwork army of students, shopkeepers, and jihadis who gathered to depose him. Like the other protest movements of the Arab Spring, the Libyan uprising was inspired by the ouster of the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, and by the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, in Egypt. Most of those revolts did not end well. Just as Egypt’s revolution has been hijacked by the same military that upheld Mubarak’s corrupt power, Libya’s revolution, too, has come asunder. Read More

People who are marching to the center of Istanbul are demanding their right to live freely and receive justice, protection and respect from the State. They demand to be involved in the decision-making processes about the city they live in. Read More

The Committee expresses serious concern about a wide range of pressing substantive human rights abuses faced by women, children, Baha’is, workers and trade unionists, members of ethnic minorities, including the Kurds, Ahwazi Arabs, Azeris, and Baluch, Afghan refugees and migrants, and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Read More

The presidential rivals of Mr Ahmadinezhad, Messrs Musavi and Karrubi, and Mr Musavi’s wife, Mrs Zahra Rahnavard, have been under house arrest for over a year without trial or possibility of defence and in contravention of Iranian national law and human rights norms. Read More

This is how the Arab Spring began: young people camping in a square and refusing to leave. Sometimes, it’s just that simple. Read More