I would like to thank Foreign Policy Association for this platform to share and discuss issues of human rights with you. Please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Below is a short bio about me: Nikolaj Nielsen bio: Nikolaj Nielsen is currently wrapping up his Master's of Journalism and Media degree from a program […]
A major financial backer of the Rwandan genocide had his assets frozen in Kenya. A good first step but it seems as if there are grounds for an arrest.
We will spend a lot of time looking at the crisis in Darfur on this blog. At the moment I want to leave you with a short note on an important development that will likely impact the innocent victims of Darfur. According to the BBC shooting has been heard in two separate parts of Sudan's […]
For those of you new to Human Rights or simply in need of an easy set of reference tools I would encourage you to bookmark the UN human rights homepage. It has links to the key UN human rights treaties and offices (including a link to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights). […]
Welcome to the new Human Rights blog here at the Foreign Policy Association. I will be blogging here along with Nikolaj (the transatlantic nature of our tandem should help cover a broader range of issues and perspectives). I am including my full bio below FYI and can be reached via the blog or at [email protected]. […]
Happiness is… Being able to share your love with a child you created out of love. To hold a life in your hands, and know it needs you and loves you unconditionally. Nothing more could you ask for than to see eyes shine and smiles brighten as you enter the room. Happiness truly is to […]
Lyle Denniston has this summary of pending Supreme Court litigation dealing with the Combatant Status Review Tribunal process. In brief, the high Court will issue a decision in the next month – in the Boumediene and Al-Odah cases – which will address the CSRT's. In both, the court will be asked to determine whether Guantanamo […]
This year Saturday, May 10th marks World Fair Trade day, the theme of the year is “Fair Trade for the Planet, for the People”, which follows last years theme of “Kids Need Fair Trade”. For more information see the World Fair Trade Day 2008 Official Website. Fair Trade is everyones issue, it is more than […]
Save the Children has released it's 9th Mother's Day Report Card: The Best and Worst Countries to Be a Mother, this year's list leaves Sweden as the best place for motherhood and Niger as the worst. The United States Ranked 27th out of 146 countries. “A mother's well-being is connected to her children's well-being,” said […]
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning Children are the light of the future, let us care for them today, so that we may see clearer in the future.
Afghanistan has yet to find a strategy to cope with the growing practice of “loan brides,” young girls traded into marriage as a result of the opium trade. While traffickers get rich by loaning money to impoverished poppy farmers, the families are often are unable to pay the debt. Families are thus forced to give […]
Marjorie Cohn, a legal critic of the Bush administration, testified before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties House Judiciary Committee Tuesday on the justification of the use of harsh interrogation tactics by intelligence officers. Cohn points to the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1991 that makes the use of torture or […]
The AIDS pandemic effects not only those who sub-come to the deadly disease, but to both their families and communities. Villages have been stripped of generations, families have fallen apart, and children have been orphaned in extraordinary numbers. The long reaching effects of HIV/AIDS cannot be ignored, and nor can the children for which it […]
UN treaty for world's disabled people takes effect A United Nations pact aimed at boosting the rights of the 650 million disabled people around the world took effect Saturday. Twenty-five countries so far have ratified the treaty, which outlaws discrimination based on disability in the workplace and in education. Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro has […]