More: Human Rights
I speak of freedom
T he divine meeting of the class system in South Africa, the failure of our curriculum, the failure for the 2016 matriculants, the...
Trump’s controversial Executive Order: Why the judiciary could create history
O n January 27th, 2017 which ironically happens to be Holocaust Remembrance Day, US President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order entitled ‘Protecting...
‘Alternative Facts’ and Forced Migration: America, Muslim Countries, and the Refugee Crisis
There is an awful lot of emotional kvetching around the recent Trump executive order about banning entry to people from seven specific countries to...
Perhaps President Donald Trump Needs To Chill Out A Bit
While the vast majority of President Donald Trump’s lightening fast and blitzkrieg-like Executive Orders over the past week and a half appear to have...
Why Peace Building Is Now Difficult in Kashmir
The turmoil since 1989 has established uncertainty and chaos as the new normal in the valley of Kashmir. Undoubtedly Kashmir that was so proudly...
Parliamentary elections in Armenia and its impact on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The Parliamentary elections in Armenia will be held on 2 April 2017. Following constitutional amendments, endorsed previously by voters in a referendum in December...
Tears, a protest, a tweet and a march
Scene I Act I – Hollywood actress Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecille B DeMille award to criticise Donald Trump. She...
The riposte of Thomas Paine to Edmund Burke: “Rights of a Man”
This prominent masterpiece written by Thomas Paine played a pivotal role in the history of human being that embraced all aspects of rights of...
Gandhi and potential
Today as I write this the voice of Mahatma Gandhi is inside my head grooming me I think in ways that are imagined and...
Turkey’s State of Emergency Decrees: A Matter of Life and Death for Erdogan or for Turkish Democracy?
Turkey has been ruled by a declared State of Emergency since the July 2016 coup attempt, allowing President Erdogan to consolidate additional powers and...