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Interview

Karima Bennoune: “Daesh produces destruction pornography”

24 June 2016 -

It becomes clearer by the day: IS (Daesh) tries to provoke a war between ‘the West’ and ‘Islam’. And they make it a cultural war. MO* talked about cultural rights and identities in times of terrorism with Karime Bennoune, UN-Special Rapporteur for Cultural Rights.

Opinion

Tax Evasion Is A Violation Of Human Rights

15 April 2016 -

This week, Tine Destrooper, Managing Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University, followed the #PanamaPapers articles with the same indignation as millions of people worldwide. According to her, the contribution of tax avoidance and tax evasion to the violation of the most vulnerable people’s human rights ...

Report

Keeping the Death Count in Syria

4 April 2016 -

Since the start of the Syrian Revolution, Syrian activists, armed with camera’s, pencils and paper, count the death, map tortures and other human rights violations. Journalist Ignacio Delgado spoke with some of them, the so called dead counters.

Report

Testimony of a Syrian metalhead with a camera and a stick

1 April 2016 -

Syrian, alawite, opposition, war photographer, war wounded. Artino is all, and more. This is his story how he lived the Syrian revolution till now.

Opinion

‘We need immigrants just as much as they need us’

18 December 2015 -

William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organisation for Migration looks back at 2015 on the occassion of International Migrants Day. 'Now is the time for safe, secure and legal migration throughout the world.'

Opinion

Crisis situations are laboratories for human traffickers

30 July 2015 -

July 30, 2015 is the second UN Day against Human Trafficking. William Lacy Swing, Director-general of IOM, emphasizes that the focus on human trafficking should be permanent. It is time, he says, that the ongoing fight against human trafficking is taken seriously and is integrated in traditional aid operations.

Analysis

Who is killing dissent and diversity in Pakistan?

5 May 2015 -

The spate of targeted attacks on high profile academics and a peace activist jolted Pakistan out of lofty dreams of $46 billions neatly spread in a colorful corridor. Ridiculing the claims by civil and military establishment about ongoing operation against target killers and terrorists, the murders created a thick wave of gloom, despair, anger and ...

Analysis

Italian spyware and the demise of a Moroccan news site

1 April 2015 -

Western companies selling surveillance technology to law enforcement and intelligence services are on the rise. In 2012 the Moroccan news website Mamfakinch, founded to report on the Arab Spring protests, was targeted with spyware developed by an Italian company called Hacking Team. The attack proved to be the fatal blow to the site and its many co ...

News

Archaeology as a pretext for annexation in East Jerusalem

7 October 2014 -

Silwan, annexed East Jerusalem, Thursday October 2th. Majd Gaith, 23 years old, cannot yet believe what happened two days ago. He shakes his head while attempting to explain the situation on the ground using a map.

Yury Fedotov is the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime

Blog Post

Give hope back to victims

26 July 2014 -

Not a single day goes by without a fresh report of women, men and children being sold into modern-day slavery; forced to work in sweatshops, fields and brothels, hidden in plain sight in the richest countries in the world, and in the poorest. Human trafficking exploits the dream of millions for a better life for themselves and their children. ...

News

Putin the drag queen and Obama the sex doll

7 July 2014 -

She has a Bachelor's in Visual Arts and Design, describes herself as being liberal, speaks Arabic and English fluently, and has received death threats on numerous occasions. Saint Hoax talks to us anonymously; unfortunately she has to take the threats seriously.

News

Oil rich but poor

8 July 2013 -

Disarray in Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah, the third richest king in the world, will have to bring more to the table than the reforms he promised to appease the poor and unemployed in his country.