Human Rights

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Should the US be an idealist or a realist about Egypt?

George Friedman | 07 December 2011 |

tags: foreign policy, human rights, Islam, Stratfor

What if there are democratic elections and the people choose a regime that violates the principles of Western human rights?

A Srebrenica in the making?

David Alton | 05 December 2011 |

tags: human rights, Iran, Iraq

The American withdrawal from Iraq has left some Iranian refugees at risk of being slaughtered.

The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a victory for human dignity

Mishka Gora | 30 May 2011 |

tags: Bosnia, human rights, justice

Bringing maniacs like Mladic to justice signals that the dream of a tolerant Bosnia is not dead.

Fundamental rights - or fundamental confusion?

Gudrun Kugler | 07 May 2011 |

tags: discrimination, European Union, human rights

Voicing an opinion at a human rights forum can be a scary business.

The puzzle of intolerant tolerance

Michael Casey | 28 March 2011 |

tags: human rights, tolerance

How can liberal democracies justify prosecuting people who wear crosses or refuse to preside at same-sex marriages and still pride themselves on being tolerant?

Gender bending: let me count the ways

Babette Francis | 22 March 2011 |

tags: Australia, gender, human rights

Few countries can be taking gender inclusiveness more seriously than Australia.

Your Constitutional right to be crazy

Theron Bowers | 24 February 2011 |

tags: human rights, insanity, law

The man who killed six people and seriously wounded a Congresswoman in Tucson was crazy. But not crazy enough to be locked up.

Mass torture in America

Lance Tapley | 18 February 2011 |

tags: human rights, prisons, torture

There's Guantanamo Bay, and then there are America's supermax prisons, where tens of thousands of citizens are kept in solitary confinement.

First, look in the mirror

Joanna Wagner | 13 December 2010 |

tags: abortion, gendercide, human rights, India

How can we point the finger at female gendercide in India when we have the same problem in the US for both genders? 

Scoundrels and freedom

Brian Lilley | 01 April 2010 |

tags: Ann Coulter, free speech, human rights

Ann Coulter, hate speech and do jokes violate human rights?

Uganda’s gay bill and the cultural imperialists

Martyn Drakard | 20 January 2010 |

tags: homosexuality, human rights, Uganda, USA

The US is getting heavy handed over Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, but isn't there a double standard here?

Obama’s China kowtow

Constance Kong | 18 November 2009 |

tags: China, human rights, Obama

Why didn't the President of the free world raise sensitive human rights issues in Beijing? Because he couldn't afford to.

Russia champions ‘traditional values’

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 October 2009 |

tags: human rights, Russia, United Nations, values

Struggling with family decay and population decline, Russia wants the UN to get down to tin tacks on the subject of human rights.

Ethics of paying for test-tube babies

Margaret Somerville | 16 September 2009 |

tags: fertility, human rights, IVF

If society pays the costs for creating test-tube babies, we also have to accept the ethical responsibility.

A world of dignity

Sergio Vieira de Mello | 24 August 2009 |

tags: Brazil, human dignity, human rights, United Nations

The late Sergio Vieira de Mello, a UN special representative in Iraq, believed that while civilisation is plural, human dignity is indivisible.