Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Human Rights'
Standing Up to the ‘Landgrabbing’ Foresters
by Hazel Healy, New Internationalist, UK - Mixed in between the sunflowers, you can see the tips of pine trees, peering over the rim of settlements. And then, plots of pine and eucalyptus, which alternate with the standing maize. These...
Young Men Break with Machista Stereotypes in Ecuador
by Leisa Sánchez, IPS News, Italy - At the age of 20, Damián Valencia speaks knowledgeably about every aspect of gender equality. He is a member of Cascos Rosa, a young people’s initiative working for cultural change against machismo and...
UK Immigration Control: Children in Extreme Distress
by Sarah Campbell, Open Democracy, UK - Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of immigration control. It is difficult to imagine any other situation where children could have such...
Ecuador’s Indigenous People Still Waiting to Be Consulted
by Ángela Meléndez, IPS News, Italy - The Constitution of Ecuador adopted in 2008 establishes a broad range of rights for indigenous peoples and nationalities, including the right to prior consultation, which gives them the opportunity to influence decisions that...
South Korean Anti-Discrimination Law Faces Conservative Pushback
by Lee Yoo Eun, Global Voices, Netherlands - South Korean conservative groups are mounting a fierce resistance to a proposed anti-discrimination law in South Korea that would prohibit discrimination based on based on religion, political ideology, or sexual orientation....
“What Happened Was Worse than Death”
by Maryam Hasan, Dawn, Pakistan - Samira* looks like just another girl next door, but on closer inspection, one sees grief in the eyes of the abaya and headscarf-wearing 17-year-old....
Extraordinary Eritreans: A support centre for Eritreans in Israel
by Ruth Michaelson, RFI, France - Israel is home to one of the largest Eritrean communities in the world. However, they face discrimination and live in constant fear. One Eritrean woman has founded a centre to give them support....
Has the LGBT Movement Failed in Uganda?
by Doreen Lwanga, Pambazuka, South Africa - Rather than continuing to operate on an exclusive basis, the LGBT movement in Uganda should strive to nurture a multivariate movement for social justice, creating a multi-normative society for their safety and the...
Under Siege, Palestinian Women Call For Human Rights On International Women's Day
by Eva Bartlett, Countercurrents.org, India - “In Gaza we don’t lead normal lives, we just cope, and adapt to our abnormal lives under siege and occupation.” On International Women’s Day, when many of the world’s women are fighting for workplace...
Teju Cole on the "Empathy Gap" and Tweeting Drone Strikes
by Sarah Zhang, Mother Jones, USA - "Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares—we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?"...
Scalia's Ugly Racial Cynicism
by Joan Walsh, Salon, USA - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has derided the Voting Rights Act as a “racial entitlement,” prompting gasps from the crowd gathered to hear arguments in Shelby County, AL Wednesday, and he blamed Congress for...
Eliminating the Scourge of Female Genital Mutilation
by Ruth Njeng’ere, Pambazuka, Kenya - A world without FGM is within sight. But more efforts are needed to ensure worldwide legislation against the practice and increased education to attain that goal....
Black Hoods and Commandos — Coming to Your Town?
by Nadine Bloch, Waging Nonviolence, USA - Both guerrilla theater and storytelling through documentation are dramatic ways of inserting the horrors of a war and atrocities fought overseas into the daily life and consciousness of blissfully ignorant constituents — and...
Journalists Are Fighting a Valiant Battle in the Syrian Conflict
by Nora Boustany, Daily Star, Lebanon - There is a more valiant battle being fought and it is opening new frontiers of the mind in Syria. It is that of reporters, local and foreign, and all those helping them in...
Exorcising the Ghosts of Brazil’s Dictatorship
by Clarinha Glock, IPS, Italy - “Brazil has been slow to join the debate on truth commissions, which is aimed at recovering (collective) memory and obtaining justice for the deaths and disappearances committed during the dictatorship, and it’s far behind...
The Women from Kohistan
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - The secret video camera, with its sinister ability to capture unwitting and perhaps unwilling subjects in acts of spying, represents a new tool for moral policing that far outdoes the human eye in surveillance....
Cold Winds from Janaozen
by Alexandra Kazakova, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Last year's violence in the town of Janaozen has created a significantly more oppressive environment in Kazakhstan, according to human rights defenders and analysts interviewed by IWPR....
Outsourcing Injustice in Apparel
by Anna M Clark, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The fire at Tazreen factory, an unauthorised sub-contracted supplier to Walmart and other global retail brands, is a reminder that when it comes to human rights and workers' rights, we haven't come...
Refugees Forced to Return to War-Torn Syria
by Nisreen El Shamayleh, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Syrian refugees cite terrible living conditions in camps in neighbouring Jordan....
Possible Crimes against Humanity in Southern Sudan
by Maeve McClenaghan, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK - The indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilians in the south of Sudan could amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report....
Out of the Frying Pan
by Hina Hafeezullah Ishaq, Daily Times, Pakistan - The continuous population boom faced by Pakistan makes children vulnerable to the worst forms of child labour....
Patients Misused as Guinea Pigs in East Germany
by Nicola Kuhrt, Der Spiegel, Germany - Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany sold patients as unwitting guinea pigs in drug trials conducted on behalf of Western pharmaceutical companies, according to a TV documentary....
Former Irish President Mary Robinson: Climate Change the Biggest Human Rights Issue of Our Time
by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, USA - We have to take into account the injustice of the fact that it’s the fossil fuel growth in the United States, Europe and other developed parts of the world, which has contributed to...
Kenya Police Face 'Summary Killing' Claims
by Roopa Gogineni, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Critics say the global 'war on terror' has legalised a culture of impunity among the country's police forces....
Genocide as a Partial Picture
by Julie Masis, Asia Times, Hong Kong - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC plans a new exhibition on Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, but it is uncertain if the American secret bombing of the country some analysts say...
The Debate about Wealth Must Start with Morals
by Zoe Williams, Guardian, UK - Of the many lessons from history the obvious ones are, firstly, that the market will decide – but always, for some queer reason, in favour of the person who's already winning....
Death by Drones
by Janie Rezner, WINGS, Canada - Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, tells Women's Voices host Janie Rezner about her recent trip to Pakistan to oppose drone strikes, what she learned...
Ending Human Rights Violations in the Mental Health System Institute Alternatives 2012
by Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland, Mad in America, USA - People don’t understand that when they reach out for help for themselves or someone they care about, it can have threatening and lifelong consequences....
Philippine Rights Abuse Victims Seek justice
by Jamela Alindogan, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Human Rights Watch says culture of impunity haunts the Philippines decades after the Marcos regime....
From Crisis to Cooperation
by Beril Dedeoglu, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Expectations of finding a solution to the Syrian issue through the international organizations are fading. As a result, the Syrian issue has gradually been turning into a bilateral crisis between Syria and Turkey....
With Pussy Riot Moving To Penal Colonies, Misery Of Russian Prison Camps Gains Fresh Focus
by Daisy Sindelar, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Former prisoners and rights activists say that inmates are still subjected to unhealthy conditions, a complete absence of privacy, and a brutal social hierarchy in which younger or more vulnerable convicts...
Accessing Science as a Human Right to Development
by Jan Piotrowski, SciDev, UK - Making access to science a human right is a worthy goal, but how can it be enshrined? And will it really deliver?...
Actually, Iran Sanctions Aren't Working
by Dina Esfandiary, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - There are two misconceptions about sanctions on Iran and the country’s currency crisis: one, that sanctions are the only cause for the rial’s free fall in value last week. And two,...
Turkey Gets Tough on Syria
by Amanda Paul, Today's Zaman,Turkey - The urgency of the situation has become greater not simply because of the deteriorating situation inside the country, but because violence is increasingly spreading beyond Syria’s borders into Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere....
Nations Run out of Ideas on Syria as FSA Runs out of Ammunition
by Lale Kemal, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Neither Turkish-US bilateral cooperation nor multilateral meetings taking place among various countries on ending the bloodshed in Syria, where the Assad regime's brutal crackdown continues unabated against the opposition, have produced any recipe...
Alice Walker: “Go to the Places That Scare You”
by Valerie Schloredt, Yes!, USA - The acclaimed novelist on why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for....
Women’s Rights Are Black and White in an Iraqi’s Photos
by Engy Abdelkader, The Daily Star, Lebanon - “While growing up in a refugee camp, I felt a renewed sense of humanity’s kindness when I saw photojournalists snap pictures that would bring help for the people living there in despair,”...
Syria through the Eyes of Children
by Rebecca Barber, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Over the course of 18 months of violent conflict, Syrian children have been the victim of unspeakably horrific crimes. Children as young as six have been detained and held sometimes for weeks,...
Steps Toward a Lasting Peace
by Susan Abad, Latin American Press, Peru - After more than 50 years of conflict and several failed negotiation attempts between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, President Juan Manuel Santos initiated a new...
Could Syria and Lebanon Be a Steppingstone to Iran?
by Linda Heard, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Western intervention in terms of sanctions as well as financial and military aid to rebels is the morally responsible way to go. Isn’t that right? Viscerally, most of us would answer ‘yes’...
"Two Children May Have Died for You to Have Your Mobile Phone”
by Inés Benítez, Tierramérica, Uruguay - Mobile phone users are urged to reflect on the bloodshed caused in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the extraction of one of the raw materials used in the manufacture of these devices,...
It Is Not Enough to "Have" Human Rights
by Shulamith Koenig, Counter Currents, India - All people must learn, know and own human rights as a way of life and join in building a political movement that will curve a new future for humanity....
Was the Revolution Lost in Tunisia and Egypt?
by Jane Dutton, Al Jazeera, Qatar - As state censorship threatens freedom of expression, we ask if new leaders have adopted the old practices of oppression....
The Rachel Corrie Legacy
by Honna Veerkamp, WINGS, Canada - An Israeli court has thrown out the lawsuit by Rachel Corrie's parents, claiming wrongful death bu an Israeli bulldozer. But her influence on the solidarity movement continues - and now Egypt has effectively ended...
Blue Blood Defends Gypsies
by Célia Lebur, Liberation, France - A scion of affluent neighbourhoods, educated at an English public school and currently a law student, nothing predestined Louis de Gouyon Matignon for the presidency of an association that protects Gypsy culture. Yet, this...
Singing for the Syrian Revolution in the Netherlands
by Jannie Schipper, Radio Netherlands, The Netherlands - Singer ‘Gharib’ may have fled to the Netherlands long ago, but his heart is still in his homeland Syria. Soon after the revolution broke out last year he posted a protest song...
Peru Identifies Civil War Victims – at Snail’s Pace
by Milagros Salazar, IPS, Italy - Of the 69,000 people killed during the 1980-2000 armed conflict in Peru, at least 16,000 were buried in secret unmarked graves. So far, only 2,064 of these bodies have been recovered, and just 50...
Book Exposes Violent Role of Paramilitaries in Haiti
by Judith Scherr, IPS, Italy - Haiti’s brutal army was disbanded in 1995, yet armed and uniformed paramilitaries, with no government affiliation, occupy former army bases today....
Palestinian Women's Killings Spark Outcry over Lax Laws
by Catherine Morrisey Ribeiro, The Feminist Wire, USA - Four recent cases of Palestinian women slain allegedly at the hand of relatives have prompted women and human rights groups to demand tougher laws against domestic violence and more stringent enforcement...
Namibia Court Rules HIV-Positive Women Sterilised without Consent
by Alex Duval Smith, The Guardian, UK - The high court in Namibia has ruled in favour of three women who claimed they had been sterilised without consent....
Women Journalists In The Eye Of The Storm
by Katherine Ronderos, AWID, Canada - Threats and violence against women journalists are on the rise in many regions of the world. In their work exposing injustices and bearing witness to human rights violations, women journalists are women human rights...
One Chechen's Cry From A Russian Jail -- 'Do These People Have Hearts?'
by Amina Umarova, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - "The problem with the European Court of Human Rights is that all cases of this type take a very long time to be processed... For example, Imran's complaint was filed in...
Chicago's Dark Legacy of Police Torture
by Liliana Segura, The Nation, USA - At the Area 2 Violent Crimes Unit, Police Commander Jon Burge had overseen and participated in the systemic torture of an untold number of African-American men, dating back to the early 1970s. They...
Can Hong Kong Bring Democracy to China?
by Kirsten Han, Nonviolent Action Network, USA - Hong Kong will remain more or less autonomous until 2047 — what happens after that, no one quite knows — but pro-democracy activists say Beijing’s control has already begun to creep into...
Brooklyn Women Make Their Building Theirs
by Laura Gottesdiener, Nonviolent Action Network, USA - For over a year, Lopez, Trelles and Ixtilico have been knocking on doors, holding meetings and organizing a multi-building rent strike that has now captured local and national attention....
Grim Search for the Missing in Sri Lanka
by Amantha Perera, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Between January and May of 2009, 2,635 people were reported as being "untraceable". This is the figure that the Sri Lankan government agrees on, though rights organizations and other advocacy groups believe...
'Russia Is Not Naive, It Knows Assad Will Soon Leave'
by Barcin Yinanc, Hurriyet, Turkey - Moscow did not want a regime change in Damascus because it doesn’t want Syria, to become a transit route for oil and gas. A quick Google search will let us remember that only two...
Libyan Woman Breaks Silence on Torture
by Jannie Schipper, Radio Netherlands, The Netherlands - While Libya is looking forward to its first democratic elections on July 7th, many people still live with painful memories of the violent events that led to the removal of Muammar Gaddafi....
As First Election Looms, Libyans Count Blessings
by Leela Jacinto, France 24, France - As the country heads for its first free elections after the rise and fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is once more in the news - and it’s not good news. Yet behind the...
Remembering Rwanda's Genocide
by Catherine Wambua, Al Jazeera, Qatar - As the country celebrates 50 years of independence, Ntarama church commemorates the 5,000 people massacred inside....
The Gaddafi Archives: Libya before the Arab Spring London 2012
by Farah Abushwesha, The Tripoli Post, Libya - Whilst the last six months have seen an explosion of exhibitions, talks and publications focusing on Libyan art and other forms of creative expression as a result of the Arab Spring –...
Return of Diamond Mining
by Monica Mark, Dawn, Pakistan - Lying in Sierra Leone’s mineral-rich eastern belt, the diamond mines were once at the heart of the country’s decade-long civil war. Six hours from the capital, Freetown, burned-out houses are testament to the brutal...
Azerbaijan Detention Could Hint at Post-Eurovision Crackdown
by Arife Kazimova, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - When the popular Eurovision song contest was held in the Azerbaijani capital last month, opposition activists viewed it as a golden opportunity to focus international attention on the country's sullied human...
Saddam's Brutality Still Haunts Iraqi Kurds
by Jane Arraf, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Relatives and friends share their grief as bodies of 730 victims of infamous Anfal campaign are reburied....
Bahrain's Women Doctors Tell of Assault, Threats and Torture
by Rachael Fulton, Safeworld, UK - “Either you cooperate and say whatever we want and we’ll treat you like a human, or you get stubborn and we beat you like a donkey.”...
66 Minutes in Syrian Detention
by Aline Sara, NOW Lebanon, Lebanon - This month, immerse yourself in a theatrical experience unlike any other. You are a tourist who has somewhat imprudently decided to visit Damascus, the capital of a nation where a fiery anti-regime uprising...
Syrian War Profiteers Cash In on Insurgency
by Nadia Bitar, Der Spiegel, Germany - EU sanctions were designed to undermine rich businesspeople propping up the Assad regime in Syria. But they are actually helping entrepreneurs with close ties to the government. Syrian profiteers are cashing in by...
Regional Human Rights Violations Raise Concerns
by Linda Karadaku, Southeast European Times, Bosnia - Amnesty International's 50th report on human rights, released last week, notes that the region still is rife with gender, sex and ethnic discrimination, and that some governments are doing too little to...
Argentina's Desaparecidos – the Epilogue
by Marcela Valente, IPS, Italy - The identification of the remains of victims of forced disappearance of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship – whose bodies were buried in secret graves or thrown into the sea - is moving forward, with periodic...
Gay Protests Fuel Debates on Russia’s Human Rights Record
by Marina Darmaros, Russian Beyond the Headlines, Russia - Less than a week after Russia came in for criticism on the state of human rights in the country from both Amnesty International and the U.S. Department of State, another gay...
False Flags on China's Rocky Road
by Hilary Wong, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Amid the increasing activity of the Chinese 'netizens', the vitality of the Chinese blogosphere, and the recent sagas involving Bo Xilai and Chen Guangcheng, there seems to have been relative progress in...
Liberia's Taylor Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison
by Yuka Royer, France 24, France - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was sentenced by a special UN court to 50 years in prison Wednesday following his landmark conviction last month for his role in war crimes committed in Sierra...
Syria: 'Why Is the World Not Doing Anything to Help Us?'
by Donatella Rovera, Al Jazeera, Qatar - For more than a year the international community has stood by as Assad's forces torture and murder indiscriminately....
Euro 2012: A Victim of Power Games
by Jagienka Wilczak, Polityka, Poland - With less than a month left to go before the kick-off of the Euro 2012, the fate of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has poisoned relations between the EU and Ukraine — the co-organiser of...
Vietnam Floats between China and US
by Lien Hoang, Asia Times, Hong Kong - China's fast political, economic and military ascent has Southeast Asian countries scrambling for alternative alliances. In the case of Vietnam, that has meant shoring up support from Russia, Japan, India, Australia and...
Indigenous Peruvian Community Locked in Dispute with Oil Company
by Fawzia Sheikh, IPS, Italy - An indigenous group in the Amazon rain forest took its anti-oil message to Canada in a case rife with accusations of social and environmental damage that highlights the issue of securing consent prior to...
Torture: A ‘Standard Operating Procedure’ for Police
by Ayesha Shahid, Dawn, Pakistan - Torture remains at the centre of the criminal justice system. Today, ‘investigation’, ‘remand’ and ‘evidence’ are all terms that have become synonymous with torture. And as long as this practice remains at the centre,...
European Refugees Meet Austerity-Era Hostility
by Claudia Ciobanu, IPS, Italy - As the economic slump drags on in Europe, refugees and immigrants are keeping a wary eye on state budgets, as governments in the throes of austerity slash the social protections and public services that...
Why Women Are a Foreign Policy Issue
by Melanne Verveer, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - The most pressing global problems simply won't be solved without the participation of women. Seriously, guys....
The World of Secret Wars
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - The CIA’s recipe behind rendition was simple: torture is illegal in the US and hence prisoners were transported to other countries where similar legal constraints do not exist so that interrogations using tactics such...
The Syrian Crisis and Turkey
by Merve Büşra Öztürk, Today's Zaman, Turkey - As Turkey hosted a gathering of the Friends of Syria coalition on Sunday, a meeting of mostly Western and Arab foreign ministers to try to agree on measures to persuade Syrian President...
Still No Aid for Women Raped, Tortured in Bosnian War
by Lisa Anderson, TrustLaw, UK - Nearly two decades after war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina, hundreds of women who survived rape and torture in the conflict are still seeking reparations and justice, with only 40 cases of sexual violence...
IWD: Making and Remaking My Identity on Human Rights
by Zenaida Martin, Gender Links, South Africa - The truth is that I have never engaged in an exchange where it did not matter (however fleetingly), to me or the opposite sex that I am female. And I am glad...
The Lost Innocence of Cote d’Ivoire’s Children
by Kristin Palitza, IPS, Italy - Children had to fear for their lives, and deal with the death of family members, hunger and displacement during the country’s violent unrest, which lasted from December 2010 until May 2011. Thousands were separated...
Kimberley Motley: Making Waves in Afghanistan's Legal System
by Stephanie Hegarty, BBC, UK - Working as Afghanistan's only foreign defence lawyer, Kimberley Motley has helped both foreigners and Afghans trapped in the country's judicial system....
How to Survive as a Journalist in Somalia?
by Eszter Farkas, European Journalism Centre, Netherlands - It takes immense courage and drive to be a journalist in Somalia, a country in the Horn of Africa. Reporters Without Borders in 2011 listed its capital city Mogadishu among the ten...
Myanmar Democracy Still in Chains
by May Ng, Asia Times, Hong Kong - On January 13, 2012, Myanmar did the previously unthinkable and released a number of political opponents from its malevolent, colonial-era prison system....
Europe Deals Arms While Defending Rights
by Judy Dempsey, New York Times, USA - Two new reports show that European companies and governments are seeking markets for their weapons outside Europe more eagerly than ever. Not all these markets are in stable, conflict-free, democratic countries. This...
Civilians Trapped as Aid to Baba Amr Blocked Again
by Zoi Constantine, The National, United Arab Emirates - The situation in Baba Amr is "extremely difficult, the weather conditions are tragic", Mr Daccord said. "It is very cold, there is fighting and people don't have access to food or...
Where Is the ‘Inevitable’ Bedouin Intifada Israel Guaranteed?
by Mya Guarnieri, +972, Israel - In 2004, Israeli officials were up in arms about an impending Bedouin Intifada. But the Bedouin didn’t rebel and now, despite plans to expel tens of thousands of them from their homes in the...
Jailed Protester Put in Psychiatric Ward
by Natalya Krainova, Moscow Times, Russia - An opposition protester on Red Square carrying a banner calling for the destruction of the Lubyanka was whisked off to a psychiatric hospital Sunday after refusing to talk to police....
Appalling Conditions in Latin America’s Prisons
by Denise Tomasini-Joshi, Miami Herald, USA - In Honduras people can spend years detained without conviction. According to the latest government figures, around 50 percent of the entire prison population is awaiting trial. In Peru the figure is around 60...
In Support of Food Justice
by Elsa Chanduví Jaña, Latin American Press, Peru - “The food basket — corn, wheat — are in the hands of powerful countries. The management of land, production, and food marketing systems is not right, there is food injustice”....
Tymoshenko's Daughter Says She Fears for Her Mother's Life
by Daisy Sindelar, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - In late December, she was moved to a remote women's prison in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Since then, her family members and lawyers have complained of harsh conditions in...
Tensions Flare over Vancouver-owned Mine in Oaxaca
by Dawn Paley, Vancouver Media Co-Op, Canada - “The social and political conflicts that have ended the lives of three people are due to the appearance of the mining company, without the consent of the people, and not to the...
Ríos Montt Placed under House Arrest
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin American Press, Peru - Former dictator faces charges of genocide committed against the Mayan Ixil ethnic group between 1982 and 1983....
Paradise on a Knife's Edge
by Amantha Perera, IPS, Italy - A slew of diplomats from the United States, Bahrain, the United Nations, India and the Commonwealth arrived in the country Saturday, all pushing for an independent inquiry into the circumstances of Nasheed’s departure from...
Burma in the Throes of Change
by Preethi Nallu, IPS, Italy - Moves by the Burmese government to settle ethnic conflicts in the country, notably with the Karen in the mountainous eastern part of the country, have caught most observers by surprise....
Rural Women as Decision Makers Viewed as Pivotal to Climate Change Solutions
by Jessica Buchleitner, Women News Network, USA-Bringing rural women’s voices to the decision making table was one of the discussions throughout the recent two week Durban Climate Talks (COP17) which ended on 9 December. One of the conference goals was...
Lebanon: Could a New Civil Law Unify a Divided Society?
by Mona Alami, IPS, Italy - Lebanese personal laws also stifle basic freedoms, such as the right to decide how to dispose of a deceased loved one’s remains. Lebanese Muslim and Orthodox communities, for example, do not allow cremation, even...
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