This Monday, a young Indian woman, from the northern province of Uttar Pradesh, retracted a statement made in August, which had accused a Muslim man of abducting, raping, and forcefully converting her to Islam for marriage. According to Thea Walsh, the notion of “love jihad” can be viewed as a nationalist ploy to promote a singular definition of belonging in Indian society.
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Richard Wang examines the use of cluster munitions by the Ukrainian government, and how the international community and Ukraine should respond.
A new trial began this Friday for the two highest-ranking members of the Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, for their part in the Cambodian Genocide. Kwame Newton argues that, with many of the trials occurring so long after the crimes themselves, even the harshest rulings seem somewhat irrelevant.
Recent events in the southern province of Guerrero have revealed the hollowness of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s security strategy.
Amidst an American-led investigation probing allegations of war crimes, the government of Sri Lanka has arrested two human-rights activists, prompting even more international disapproval.
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Today across the globe there are approximately 300,000 children armed with AK-47s and hand grenades participating in domestic conflicts. Although these conflicts occur in developing nations in South America and Asia, they are often focused in Africa, and today in particular, in the Central African Republic. This rapid mobilization of child soldiers has been alarming for the international community as it tries to reconcile this new threat and the ratification of treaties and peace accords that delineate expectations for the rights and protection of children around the world.
Created in 1947 as a Cold War-era espionage agency, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a long history of secret activities that range from attempted assassinations and regime change in foreign countries to the support of death squads and fascist coups up to the wholesale buying-off of puppet politicians. Top U.S. officials have for … Continue reading Rogue Shadow Paramilitary: The CIA After 9/11
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