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Idrak Abbasov, the Azeri journalist who broke the story of Azerbaijan’s deliberate destruction of a medieval Armenian cemetery, has been subjected to an intense interrogation by state security agents. He was restrained and blindfolded before being aggressively questioned for hours, after which he had to be treated in hospital. He has been ejected from Nakhichevan, [...]
Hollywood actress Maria Conchita Alonso spoke for many when asked to comment on Sean Penn’s Oscar win. “He’s an amazing actor. I can’t take that away from him,” she said of Penn, who worked with her on the 1988 cop film Colors. “It’s just that he has no clue at all what’s going on in [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HWmR6psHn8[/youtube] This video was made available by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which today launched an international campaign to raise public awareness about human trafficking. Several high-tech publicity tools are being utilised to draw attention to the fight against modern slavery, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. It’s called the Blue Heart [...]
Freedoms of speech and religion are under threat around the world. Religious persecution watchdog organisation International Christian Concern cites several recent instances in this disturbing trend. Hate speech and anti-conversion laws are cropping up around the globe in what, on the surface, seems to be an effort to protect religious freedoms. In reality, these laws [...]
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has issued a warning that monitoring people crossing the border could be discriminatory. Apparently, “human rights” are more important than national security. The Human Rights Commission in the North has warned that plans to introduce checks on people crossing the Border may lead to racial discrimination. […] The Northern [...]
Carla Del Ponte is one fearless prosecutor. Her investigations of Sicilian mafia, Slobodan Milosevic, and Rwandan genocide earned her powerful enemies and death threats. Her memoir Madame Prosecutor is proving extremely controversial—so much so that she has been forbidden to talk about it. She alleges that the United Nations and NATO failed adequately to investigate [...]
Immediately after his inauguration, President Barack Obama appealed to the Muslim world to “initiate a new partnership” with the United States “based on mutual respect and mutual interest”. So, how’s that going so far? Not well, as Charles Colson points out. Egyptians were wildly supportive of Obama’s victory, seeing him as a symbol of justice. [...]
Growing anti-Semitism has brought “a grave and serious sadness” upon Jews in Canada and abroad. Canadian historian Ken Coates says that, while the Jews are very good at standing up for themselves, they should not be left to do so alone. Non-Jewish people need to speak up against their hate-filled enemies. Standing with the Jewish [...]
Leaders of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, or World Hindu Council) dispatched a letter to several Muslim groups asking them to issue a fatwa declaring India a friend of Islam against which jihad should not be waged. They also included another, even more bizarre, request. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has sent a letter to 13 prominent [...]
Straight talk from Yakin Erturk, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women: MUSLIM women around the world are facing a “growing crisis” as Islamic governments fail to honour commitments to end inequality and violence against them, a senior UN official has warned. […] “There is no time left to lose any more as this is [...]
Philip J Spencer, an academic who specialises in Holocaust and genocide studies, calls on leftists to stop ignoring and minimising contemporary anti-Semitism. There are a number of ways in which much of the left now refuses to engage seriously with anti-Semitism but rather helps to legitimate it. The first takes the form of explaining anti-Semitism [...]
Canadian MP Irwin Cotler (Lib – Mount-Royal) is speaking in London this week at an international conference on anti-Semitism. Ruth Gledhill has obtained an advance copy of Mr Cotler’s speech. Here are the opening paragraphs. Global Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights [...] What we are witnessing today – and which has been developing incrementally, sometimes [...]
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today released a global assessment of the fight against human trafficking. A few signs of progress are reported in a small number of countries but , overall, trafficking of human beings seems to be growing. Most countries are still ignoring or denying the modern-day slave trade. [...]
Charlotte Wilberforce, great-great-great granddaughter of English anti-slavery MP William Wilberforce, is interviewed by Bermuda’s The Royal Gazette about her work with Stop the Traffik to fight modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Ms Wilberforce became involved after meeting representatives from international anti-slavery coalition Stop The Traffik at a preview of ‘Amazing Grace‘, the film which told [...]
Following complaints from city residents, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ankara, Turkey, last month launched an investigation into the campaign for a public apology for the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians. The complainants alleged that the campaign violated Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, which outlaws “insulting the Turkish nation”. After reviewing [...]
