Posted on July 13, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
The right to life of women in Pakistan is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions. Hina Jilani, lawyer and human rights activist
An honor killing is a murder, carried out by a family to punish a female family member who has supposedly brought dishonor on the family. The acts which are the cause of [...]
Filed under: human rights quote | Tagged: crime, religion, islam, iraq, judiciary, justice, women, homosexuality, culture, discrimination, illiteracy, women's rights, gender discrimination, education, gay rights, stoning, muslim, politics, rape, family, india, adultery, Pakistan, murder, honor, killing, gay | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 9, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
Ethnic cleansing is the violent displacement of an ethnic group from a particular territory in order to create an ethnically “clean” unit, i.e. a territorial unit composed of only one ethnic group. The means used to achieve ethnic unity are:
direct military force
police brutality
genocide
the threat of force
intimidation
rape
pogrom
demolition of housing, places of worship, infrastructure
discriminatory legislation or policies
tribal [...]
Filed under: human rights, human rights facts | Tagged: military, iraq, genocide, nationalism, violence, apartheid, self-determination, war, ethnic cleansing, darfur, discrimination, hate, politics, military force, police, rape, pogrom, race, deportation, multi-culturalism, Bosnia, crimes against humanity, baghdad | 8 Comments »
Posted on May 12, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
The democratic peace theory, stating that democracies do not wage war among themselves, is one of the main arguments in favor of the international promotion of democratic governance. It has been around since Immanual Kant who, in his essay Perpetual Peace, postulated that constitutional republics, or what we now would call democracies, was one of [...]
Filed under: democracy, what is democracy? | Tagged: arguments, democracy, democratic peace, democratic peace theory, dictator, iraq, kant, peace, Perpetual Peace, u.s., war | 5 Comments »
Posted on April 26, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
One of my own:
The capital of punishment
Mistaken religion, unlucky position,
You may be spoiling someone’s horizon
Or crossing a trajectory in the streets of Baghdad.
It’s better that your execution is extra-judicial rather than intra.
At least you don’t have to wait for the date and satisfy the spectators.
Filed under: human rights, human rights poem | Tagged: iraq, poem, poetry, capital punishment, execution, death penalty, baghdad | No Comments »
Posted on April 3, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
(by http://www.kirktoons.com/)
A slightly outdated but still relevant cartoon, depicting the sanctions regime directed against Iraq under the reign of Saddam.
I don’t mean to say that sanctions should never be a tool for pressuring dictators. Sometimes other, less severe measures are unavailable or ineffective.
What I mean to say is that the population should not suffer from [...]
Filed under: democracy, human rights, human rights cartoon | Tagged: boycott, cartoon, democracy, intervention, iraq, sanctions, universality | No Comments »
Posted on April 3, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
This cartoon (by www.comics.com/editoons/cardow) makes a joke of the invasions of privacy that the Bush Administration considered to be necessary in the fight against terrorism. The so-called “liberation” of Iraq and the import of democracy there are contrasted with the limitations on human rights imposed in the home country.
The Bush policies that followed 9-11 are [...]
Filed under: human rights, human rights cartoon | Tagged: 9-11, bush, cartoon, human rights, iraq, limited rights, privacy, security, terrorism, u.s. | 1 Comment »
