human rights issues The ethics of parking eco-friendly carsThomas Clark | 13 February 2012 |tags: discrimination, sustainabilityWhy are universities privileging those who already have power, wealth and status if they drive a Prius?  Unnatural SelectionJennifer Roback Morse | 06 February 2012 |tags: books, sex selective abortionA 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 decisionJames S. Cole | 23 January 2012 |tags: First Amendment, religious freedom, Supreme CourtThe unanimous decision is a major setback for the Obama Administration.  Death on wheelsPaul Russell | 09 December 2011 |tags: euthanasia, NetherlandsA 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, StratforWhat 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, IraqThe American withdrawal from Iraq has left some Iranian refugees at risk of being slaughtered.  Past our peakDanny Dorling | 20 October 2011 |tags: demography, migration, population declineAn 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, slaveryA Canadian radio station created world-wide controversy recently when it ran a "win a baby" competition.  Understanding SomaliaIoan M Lewis | 10 October 2011 |tags: famine, government, SomaliaBehind the devastating famine is a profoundly decentralised society with no effective national government.  Remote warfare can cut both waysPaul Rogers | 03 October 2011 |tags: drones, warfareA 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 heroineCarolyn Moynihan | 30 September 2011 |tags: Africa, AIDS, heroinesOne 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 heartBenedict XVI | 24 September 2011 |tags: Benedict XVI, faith, Germany, reasonPositivist 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, utilitarianismAre there any lessons for the future in the scandalous story of American syphilis research in Guatemala?  No casualty should be forgottenPaul Rogers | 20 September 2011 |tags: civilian casualties, Libya crisis, warfareRecording, 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 detaineesJennifer S. Bryson | 19 September 2011 |tags: Guantanamo Bay, tortureThere 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 marriageIs it same-sex marriage rights they want, or a revolution in the American legal system?  Don’t cry for me, SudanDavid Alton | 13 September 2011 |tags: heroes, Korea, SudanThe 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, IrelandThe 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 justiceRobert R. Reilly | 05 September 2011 |tags: justice, marriage, same-sex marriageAffirming 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 WallSue Alexander-Barnes | 12 August 2011 |tags: Berlin Wall, CommunismIt appeared literally overnight, and kept East Germans imprisoned for more than a quarter of a century.  Youth in search of inspirationFrancois Jacob | 26 July 2011 |tags: Catholic Church, UN, World Youth DayThe 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, secularismSecularists who want to evict religion from the public square are strong contenders for the label. Page 1 of 1 : |
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