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Nine years after Bahrain’s Uprising, its human rights crisis has only (...)
Aya Majzoub 03/03/20
Despite well documented abuses in the kingdom, the spigot of aid and arms from the U.S. and U.K. remains open. It’s been nine years since Bahrain’s February 2011 uprising. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities and towns across the (...)
Stopping the Slide : Democracy and Human Rights Decline under Duterte
Joseph Purugganan 17/05/19
From his pulpit at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Congress, Duterte once again rebuked human rights activists and their criticism against his violent war on drugs, by saying “your concern is human rights, mine is human lives.” As (...)
Economía, pobreza, derechos humanos : situación en México a pocos meses de las (...)
Luis Alberto Reygada 13/12/17
Dentro de exactamente un año el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN) entregará el poder a su sucesor, quien tomará posesión de su cargo ante el Congreso de la Unión, cumpliendo con la tradicional declaración solemne pronunciada en tal acto protocolario (...)
Venezuela : aikido y derechos humanos
Rafael Uzcátegui 10/05/17
La situación de los derechos humanos se agrava en Venezuela. Afortunadamente, una parte de la izquierda ha comenzado a hablar. El actual conflicto venezolano resulta similar al aikido, el arte marcial en el que para vencer se utiliza en su (...)
Je ne suis pas votre nègre
28/04/17
À partir des textes de l’écrivain noir américain James Baldwin (1924-1987), le cinéaste Raoul Peck revisite les années sanglantes de lutte pour les droits civiques, à travers notamment les assassinats de Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers et Malcolm (...)
Can Myanmar’s garment industry deliver decent jobs ?
Martje Theuws, Pauline Overeem 20/03/17
Myanmar was ruled by a military junta for 50 years. After such a long period of economic isolation, foreign investment is now booming as economic sanctions have been lifted following Myanmar’s first steps towards democracy. The export-oriented (...)
Privatisation et emprise des entreprises sur les politiques de pêche (...)
Mads Barbersgaard avec le WFFP 16/03/17
Au nom d’une gestion durable des ressources halieutiques, les politiques internationales en matière de pêche s’appuient de plus en plus sur une « approche fondée sur les droits », supposée bénéficier aux communautés de pêcheurs artisans. Mais le concept (...)
L’abus de pouvoir, vecteur du pillage des ressources de la pêche
André Standing 16/03/17
L’approche répressive dans la lutte contre la pêche illégale montre ses limites dans les environnements hautement corrompus. Elle doit céder la place à des démarches qui intègrent la réalité de la collusion entre pouvoirs publics et acteurs économiques et (...)
Asia : When Murder and Abuse Become Systemic
Alina Carrillo, Shalmali Guttal 13/09/16
It was Sunday morning on the 10th of July in the Caltex coffee shop in Phnom Penh, a place where many locals went to start their day. In a few moments a crowd would rush in with utter disbelief and heavy hearts. What they would find has shocked (...)
Indonesia : No ‘magic bullet’
Vannessa Hearman 19/02/16
It has been a strange year for human rights under the Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, administration. Human rights activists were among those who invested a great deal of energy in Jokowi’s election campaign. They volunteered individually, as well as (...)