It appears that President Joe Biden’s strategic shift in foreign policy orientation from the Middle East to Asia, his stated policy of making humanrights the priority of his foreign policy abroad, and the recent debacle in Afghanistan have alarmed Arab regional leaders, Saudis, and the United Arab Emirates and convinced them to chart a new foreign policy in the region and regard Washington as unreliable.
Its spirit is American to the core: a transcontinental and transoceanic venture, marshalling the energies and resources of billions of people around the world in an astonishing effort to unite societies and markets in a single human community.
The more secularized the society in a country is, and the less traditional values play a role in shaping life there, the more the issue of climate change is being stylized as a central question of human existence.
The country abounds in untapped resources, both natural and human, that can fuel post-war recovery while spurring development in surrounding regions and far beyond.
In a recent conversation with former UN humanrights envoy, Richard Falk, the Princeton Professor Emeritus explained to me that, despite Israel’s ability to escape punishment, it is rapidly losing what he refers to as the ‘legitimacy war’.
Khalid bin Salman’s warm reception by Biden administration officials led to some voices in the humanrights community expressing outrage, especially given the fact that MbS’s brother is purportedly linked to the Khashoggi murder case.
Read: “How Did We Get Here?” Facing the Political Histories of Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism in Canada How will the judgment affect Muslim employees? How the judgment will affect the rights of Muslim employees in Europe is not entirely clear.
, born in Jerusalem before Israel’s creation, founded Physicians for HumanRights-Israel 33 years ago As someone who has worked tirelessly her entire life for humanrights and equality in historic Palestine, I wanted to hear her views about the radicalization of Jewish Israeli youth, especially in light of the most recent Israeli aggression in Gaza and the West Bank and the mobs attacking Palestinians in mixed Israeli cities.
Considering FETO’s extensive human web that found its way into state institutions, its clandestine structure, incognito activities in the civilian sphere, fight against the coup plotters could not be confined to the coup perpetrators only.
Not only did the United States not achieve its objectives, but its withdrawal imperils the significant work that has been achieved over the last 20 years on democracy, institution building, and humanrights.
Where is China's truth and reconciliation commission? Where is their truth? Where is the openness that Canada has always shown and the responsibility that Canada has taken for the terrible mistakes of the past, and indeed, many of which continue into the present?”Read: The Denial of White Privilege in Australia Is HegemonicTrudeau is referring here to China’s “systemic abuse and humanrights violations against the Uyghurs.
s the echoes of the global reaction to the recent humanrights violations in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza continue worldwide, Politics Today interviewed the renowned Jewish American author, physician, and humanrights activist, Alice Rothchild, on how to interpret the transition from the oppressed to the oppressor and the challenges of defining, discussing and reporting the settler-colonialism in Palestine as well as the ways forward for meaningful peace advocacy and solidarity.
But whilst the clerics probe the religious legitimacy of these policies Cairo has also thrown its full weight behind re-developing political, military and humanitarian ties with Ethiopia’s neighbors in a diplomatic blitzkrieg to isolate it.