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Cameron’s “imperial mentality”: A Caribbean perspective
Gifford (second from R) with J-FLAG activists in a 2010 Kingston protest Watch this video, from Jamaican TV, of an interview with British – Jamaican human rights lawyer Lord Anthony Gifford. As a...
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Davos, occupied
The World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. CNN is full of Important People being interviewed in front of snow-hung pines; at first I thought it was the Winter Olympics, which I...
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Why won’t Obama arm Human Rights Watch?
Video of a Bahrain Defence Forces unit on the Budaiya Highway near al-Qadam, March 16, 2011. Visible are an M113 in front, with three others behind it on the ground and on the flyover, a Humvee, and a...
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O Canada, just out of curiosity I was wondering how much an hour for thee?
Tell it to the judge: Plaintiff Terri-Jean Bedford, a profesional dominatrix Action Canada for Population and Development points out that on Monday, the Court of Appeal in the Canadian province of...
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Human Rights Watch on women’s sexuality: Nice women don’t have one (3)
This is part 3 of a three-part post. Parts 1 and 2 are above. Campaign poster for Proposition K, a 2008 initiative to decriminalize prostitution in San Francisco, US Professionally, we prefer victims:...
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Human Rights Watch on women’s sexuality: Nice women don’t have one (2)
This is part 2 of a three-part post. Part 1 is above. It's still the same old sex panic: cover of "Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls," 1910 book on white slavery by Ernest Bell The traffic in...
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Human Rights Watch on women’s sexuality: Nice women don’t have one (1)
Still hazy after all these years This is Part 1 of a three-part post Missed connections; or, how not to find lesbians Here’s some of what a friend of mine, an Egyptian lesbian, 33 and butch, told me...
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Hillel Neuer: Liar. Mona Seif: Hero.
Mona Seif, Tahrir Square: © Matthew Cassel, justimage.org I know Mona Seif only slightly. She’s one of the few human rights activists in Egypt (or anywhere) whom almost everybody likes. She’s utterly...
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A clarification: What international human rights activists really do
International human rights activists as they see themselves In my first post on Mona Seif, I objected to an e-mail that Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, sent to the New York Times....
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Ahmed Seif al-Islam: In dark times
Ahmed Seif el-Islam, photographed by Platon for Human Rights Watch, 2011 Ahmed Seif al-Islam died one year ago today. I had meant to write something then, but I didn’t have the heart. No one had much...
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