Selected Articles: Human Rights Hypocrisy. “Does the Reality Live Up to the Rhetoric?”
Naming Crimes: The Use, Misuse and Omission of Genocide
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 18 2016
Hollow words run the world of diplomatic exchange. Such counterfeit currency is fundamental to understanding humanitarian law, where political figures stumble or walk tall depending on whether they should condemn, let alone combat, certain catastrophes.
Human Rights Hypocrisy: US Criticizes Cuba
By Marjorie Cohn, March 18 2016
In advance of President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba on March 20, there is speculation about whether he can pressure Cuba to improve its human rights.
Smart Power and “The Human Rights Industrial Complex”
By Patrick Henningsen, March 17 2016
Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric?
Serious Systematic Human Rights Violations Against the People of Yemen
By Arabian Rights Watch Association, March 18 2016
IDO, together with Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, and Arabian Rights Watch Association, express our utmost concern over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its Coalition’s (the “Saudi-led Coalition’s”) ongoing serious and systematic violations of rights in Yemen, including political, economic, human, and humanitarian rights.
The Criminalization of Environmental and Human Rights Activists: Free Ethiopian Political Prisoners!
By Grain, March 16 2016
One year after their arrest on March 15, 2015, three food, land, and human rights defenders continue to languish in an Ethiopian jail.