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Masood Azhar is not guilty nor involved in any crime

China is a responsible state and understands its international obligations. China has become the second largest economy as well as geopolitical power of the emerging world....

Kazakh police raid raises spectre of China’s long arm

A police raid on a Kazakh group documenting the plight of Kazakhs and Uyghurs caught in a brutal crackdown in China’s north-western province of Xinjiang is...

Education remains an impossible dream for many refugees and migrants

The older refugee and migrant children get, the less likely it is that they will get a quality education: less than a quarter of the world’s...

India: Intolerant, Extremist and Aggressor state

India has been exposed as “Intolerant, Extremist and Aggressor State”. Indian society is based on a caste system, where lower caste “untouchable” cannot sit or eat...

Take me to Patpong: The forgotten women of Thailand

One of the perks of going abroad and studying in many schools is that I have friends from many nationalities, backgrounds and interests, the privilege to...

Deprivation of Nationality as a Counterterrorism Response in the UK

Since the emergence of the Islamic State (IS), an estimated 21 per cent of its 30,000 foreign fighters reportedly travelled from Europe to Syria and...

Consular Protection

The world is rightly outraged at how Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, but I was also horrified by where.  As the U.S. Consul General in...

Saudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent

These are tough times for Saudi Arabia. The drama enveloping the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the brutal way in which it was carried out...

Ukraine: Religious Organizations Increasingly Violate Journalist Rights

In early January 2019, an event remarkable for the Ukrainian faithful happened – the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was granted independence. Before that, there were three largest...

Iran: How to Avoid a War

Upon closer inspection, it appears that the Islamic Republic of Iran has a relative near dearth of human rights organizations operating freely within that...

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The Anti-Ballistic Coalition: Laudable Intent with Unrealistic Promises

Nine European nations – Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the...

Can Diplomacy Prevent the Next Gulf War?

As renewed tensions between Iran and the United States...
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