human rights issues


The ethics of parking eco-friendly cars

Thomas Clark | 13 February 2012 |
tags: discrimination, sustainability
Why are universities privileging those who already have power, wealth and status if they drive a Prius?


Unnatural Selection

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 February 2012 |
tags: books, sex selective abortion
A book by a pro-choice feminist faces up to an unintended consequence of the West's fertility war.


US Supreme Court backs religious independence in surprise decision

James S. Cole | 23 January 2012 |
tags: First Amendment, religious freedom, Supreme Court
The unanimous decision is a major setback for the Obama Administration.


Death on wheels

Paul Russell | 09 December 2011 |
tags: euthanasia, Netherlands
A Dutch MP thinks mobile euthanasia units are worth considering.


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.


Past our peak

Danny Dorling | 20 October 2011 |
tags: demography, migration, population decline
An open borders advocate finds encouragement in the likelihood of world population declining.


Are babies prizes or gifts?

Margaret Somerville | 18 October 2011 |
tags: commercialism, IVF, slavery
A Canadian radio station created world-wide controversy recently when it ran a "win a baby" competition.


Understanding Somalia

Ioan M Lewis | 10 October 2011 |
tags: famine, government, Somalia
Behind the devastating famine is a profoundly decentralised society with no effective national government.


Remote warfare can cut both ways

Paul Rogers | 03 October 2011 |
tags: drones, warfare
A greater focus on armed drones in war by the United States and its allies raises questions of political cost as well as law and morality.


Margaret Ogola: an African heroine

Carolyn Moynihan | 30 September 2011 |
tags: Africa, AIDS, heroines
One of four distinguished Kenyan women who died recently was a doctor who spent herself on the welfare of AIDS victims and strengthening the African family.


The listening heart

Benedict XVI | 24 September 2011 |
tags: Benedict XVI, faith, Germany, reason
Positivist reason has excluded faith from politics to the detriment of justice and peace, the Pope told the German Parliament this week.


“Ethically impossible”

Michael Cook | 22 September 2011 |
tags: Guatemala, utilitarianism
Are there any lessons for the future in the scandalous story of American syphilis research in Guatemala?


No casualty should be forgotten

Paul Rogers | 20 September 2011 |
tags: civilian casualties, Libya crisis, warfare
Recording, identifying and acknowledging each individual victim of armed conflict - and holding to account those responsible – is an idea whose time has come.


The US must reject torture of detainees

Jennifer S. Bryson | 19 September 2011 |
tags: Guantanamo Bay, torture
There is no conflict between treating detainees humanely and interrogating them, says an interrogator who worked at Guantanamo Bay.


No standing: what marriage radicals really think of “the people”

Jennifer Roback Morse | 16 September 2011 |
tags: law, Proposition 8, same-sex marriage
Is it same-sex marriage rights they want, or a revolution in the American legal system?


Don’t cry for me, Sudan

David Alton | 13 September 2011 |
tags: heroes, Korea, Sudan
The short life of a Korean priest and doctor who worked with lepers in the Sudan is a lesson in generosity.


Upstanding or grandstanding?

Michael Kirke | 06 September 2011 |
tags: Catholic Church, child sexual abuse, Ireland
The Irish government is understandably furious over a report on clerical sex abuse. But is it courageous enough to examine the scandals for which it is responsible?


A novel notion of justice

Robert R. Reilly | 05 September 2011 |
tags: justice, marriage, same-sex marriage
Affirming the right to same sex marriage makes about as much sense as promoting the goodness of smoking cancer-inducing cigarettes.


The birth of the Berlin Wall

Sue Alexander-Barnes | 12 August 2011 |
tags: Berlin Wall, Communism
It appeared literally overnight, and kept East Germans imprisoned for more than a quarter of a century.


Youth in search of inspiration

Francois Jacob | 26 July 2011 |
tags: Catholic Church, UN, World Youth Day
The UN wants young people to change the world. In Madrid the Pope will ask them to change themselves.


Who are the real fundamentalists?

Gudrun Kugler | 19 July 2011 |
tags: fundamentalism, religious freedom, secularism
Secularists who want to evict religion from the public square are strong contenders for the label.


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