Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy-Five
On December 10, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will reach its three-quarters of a century milestone. Adopted on the same day by the UN General Assembly...
Meet Xi and Putin’s Hired Gun Inside the UN
If your dictatorship is facing U.S. or EU sanctions—especially human rights sanctions—you can count on Alena Douhan to pay your country a visit, hold a press conference, and announce that...
What Ending the Uzbek Cotton Boycott Means for Central Asia
The war in Ukraine has prompted the former Soviet republics to alter their economic and diplomatic ties with Russia, signaling that they are not clients of Moscow. The Central Asian...
U.S. Calls for Probe Into Egyptian Opposition Figure’s Death
The U.S. Department of State has called for a “thorough, transparent, and credible” investigation into the death of Ayman Hadhoud, an Egyptian economist and critic of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,...
The U.S. Ignores Human Rights Abuses in Slovakia at Its Own Peril
On April 12, the State Department published its annual human rights country reports. While certain countries and issues are being strictly scrutinized, serious human rights violations in the heart of...
Why Is Blinken Courting NGO Propaganda Superpowers?
In between dealing with the Ukraine war—the gravest strategic confrontation since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis—and supervising the apparently final stages of negotiations to revive the Iranian nuclear agreement, Secretary...
British Nationals Freed from Iranian Prisons
The British government announced on Wednesday that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, two British-Iranian dual citizens imprisoned in Iran for alleged espionage charges, have been released and have left the...
Afghan Human Rights Protests are Political Resistance Against the Taliban
On September 10, 2021, twenty-five days after the Taliban takeover of Kabul, a young lady, infuriated with the silence against the oppression of the Taliban, screamed of the Taliban’s cruelty...
How Humane Wars are Inhumane
Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux). 416 pp. $30.00. IT IS a hoary military cliché that at...
Osman Kavala, Turkish Human Rights Activist, Has Prison Term Extended
A Turkish court decided in a Friday hearing that Turkish businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been imprisoned since 2017, should remain in jail until his trial takes place, based...
The United States Must Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers
Following news of the U.S. Department of State’s involvement in training four of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s Saudi murderers, Americans have been left wondering why the United States funds, arms, and...
Are the European Parliament and Human Rights Watch Hypocritical or Just Racist?
The trial of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotelier made famous in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, continues in Kigali. Rusesabagina arrived in the Rwandan capital last August after boarding a private...