More: Human Rights
Is the peace plan dead?
In 2002, the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who was then the crown prince, told a visiting journalist from the United States that...
The Importance of Successful Integration
Time and again throughout history millions of people have been forced to leave their place of origin to find safety as the result of...
The Blame Game: Finding Fault in Greater Caspian Human Rights
A wonderfully informative, if also somewhat depressing, report has just come out from The Foreign Policy Centre, based in London, where the effort was...
How Do We Really Help Refugees?
The UNHCR reports that there are approximately 50 million refugees around the world at present. 50 million. That's the population of South Korea, or...
On a journey
‘Not all those who wander are lost.’ J R R Tolkien ‘’When Russians have become Slavs, when Frenchmen have assumed the...
5 Scenarios for South Sudan
On 22 January, just over 25 months after the start of the civil war in South Sudan, the scheduled formation of the Transitional Government...
Unbalanced Balancing: Domestic Support in Iran for the JCPOA
Even before an official announcement was made that an agreement had been reached on the JCPOA, it was evident that any negotiation would inevitably...
Syrians Not Seeking, Syrians Not Welcome: Refugees and the Caspian Region
The primary point of interest here is why Syrians are fleeing their nation and where they are going. The primary reason they are fleeing...
The Genocide Convention: An Unused but not Forgotten Standard of World Law
9 December is the anniversary of the 1948 Convention on Genocide, signed at the UN General Assembly held in 1948 in Paris. The Genocide...
A Disturbing Double-Standard:A Human Rights Criticism of the JCPOA
Critics of capital punishment have long claimed that the utilization of such measures are inhumane and disregard certain human rights. One state at the...