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Where do Mexico’s drugs come from?
After exploring the recent death of Mexico’s antinarcotics chief, I decided to explore where much of the funding for Mexican drug cartels comes from. …humanrights
Executioners wear suits
The executioners wear suits and ties to match. Clean-shaved, hair brushed back, a news camera crew follows all five of them into a sterile lobby at th…warcrimes
Judge dismisses GITMO case
Judge Susan Crawford, the prosecutorial authority for the U.S. military tribunal at the naval detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Tuesday refused ch…election
Go Figure
Has anyone compiled a list of the ways this election campaign has broken the mold? As Barack Obama closes in the on the Democratic nomination and we …mideastmedia
Hamas Sees Security Measures as Campaign Against the Resistance
A report published last week by the Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Information Center (PIC) claims that the security measures being carried out by the p…publicdiplomacy
Election Preferences on the Arab Street
Zogby International and the University of Maryland’s Shibley Telhami conducted a poll last month of 6 Arab publics: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Moro…climatechange
The Crime of Mountaintop Removal Mining
With the West Virginia primary tomorrow, and Kentucky next week, coal and coal mining become more visible as issues. I wrote about this in April at Q…diplomacy
Military News Bias
A consistent theme running throughout this blog has been the Defense Department’s slow and steady encroachment on activities traditionally perfo…middleeast
Wishful Thinking?
There is some good news out of Lebanon, as the legitimate government has managed to regain control of the streets. But this editorial from The Daily …centralasia
A Weak Showing
Just as I opine about a growing autocratic threat to the world liberal system I want to introduce a report by the Brookings Institution analyzing weak…southafrica
Crime, Tourism and 2010
With 2010 and the World Cup, and thus South Africa’s global close-up, fast approaching, the country’s tourist industry will become increas…africa
Beginnings and Ends in Zim
Now that the Movement for Democratic Change has declared that it will contest the runoff election Zimbabweans have reached the end of the beginning, n…humanrights
Sahrawis in Morocco
In the blistering summer heat of the Algerian desert, 28-year old Sahrawi refugee Brahim Boudjemaa is telling me his story. It is one shared by many l…humanrights
Welcome
I would like to thank Foreign Policy Association for this platform to share and discuss issues of human rights with you. Please feel free to contact …humanrights
Felicien Kabuga Assets Frozen
A major financial backer of the Rwandan genocide had his assets frozen in Kenya. A good first step but it seems as if there are grounds for an arrest…humanrights
Darfur and Sudan
We will spend a lot of time looking at the crisis in Darfur on this blog. At the moment I want to leave you with a short note on an important developm…humanrights
Human Rights Tools
For those of you new to Human Rights or simply in need of an easy set of reference tools I would encourage you to bookmark the UN human rights homepag…humanrights
Welcome
Welcome to the new Human Rights blog here at the Foreign Policy Association. I will be blogging here along with Nikolaj (the transatlantic nature of o…centralasia
An Autocratic Dawn?
Robert Kagan, a neoconservative policy analyst and one of presidential candidate John McCain’s foreign policy advisors, has a new book warning t…lebanon