One thing I love about the World Cup is that it gives a certain set of liberals who love to shout SPORTSBALL most of the time an excuse to root for the United States in sports every four years while promoting the most corrupt sport...
human rights
Peter Fitzgerald, amendments by Globe-trotter / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) We haven't blogged much about Hong Kong recently. The news, as readers probably now, has been pretty grim. On June 30,.
China is a highly authoritarian state with an extremely poor record on human rights. During the 2000s, it seemed like the country was very slowly and tentatively liberalizing. This is.
In my new gig as a blogger for the International Observatory of Human Rights, I talk about the ways journalists, human rights workers, and humanitarians are turning to animation to present graphic subjects. Here's a preview: When telling stories of violence for mass audiences, we...
Casey Michael on China's mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang: In China’s remote western.
This administration is absolutely vile.After a court order to reunite more than 2,000 migrant children who were separated from their parents in May and June, the Trump administration has instructed.
You just need to read this. A quick, unpleasant, taste: And he repeatedly argues against using the word "xenophobia," or the fear of foreigners, writing in side notes that he has concerns over "the malleability of the term now and in the future." "[W]hat real...
MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018.
Because it's a day for joyous celebration of the essential goodness of humanity, you should read this (surprisingly) good review essay by Cass Sunstein over at the New York Review.
I've been working on a post detailing the ways that the Trump Administration is destroying the State Department, but it looks like I can outsource it to this Foreign Policy article by Robbie Gramer, Dan De Luce, and Colum Lynch. A sample: More than six months...
My research has mostly revolved around virtual witnessing, but after attending a recent show at Amnesty International headquarters in London I decided to look into another kind of witnessing. I.
A long-time human rights worker, who has written reports for Human Rights Watch, focusing primarily on Africa, takes to the Boston Review to revisit his own sins, mistakes, and regrets,.