With the rhapsodizing of moms who want healthy children and the battle cries of right-wing skeptics, it can be difficult to depoliticize the debate about organically grown foods and root out scientific information about how they compare to conventionally grown counterparts. The European Union...
Click here to read the article in The Independent.
According to a memo reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld agreed in December 2002 to allow for a variety of harsh interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay. "Mild non-injurious physical contact," "stress positions", and forced nudity were...
U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could put prisoners in "stress positions" for as long as four hours, hood them and subject them to 20-hour-long interrogations, "fear of dogs" and "mild non-injurious...
Mysteriously, merchant ships have sunk continuously at the Sandheads in India's Bay of Bengal, leading many to question why. More mysterious, however, is the fact that ships continue coming here and sinking. Official estimates indicate that at least 81 ships have gone down in this area in the...
The Sandheads in the Bay of Bengal have become the Waterloo of many a ship in the Indian waters. Merchant ships continue to 'sink' at regular intervals here. A vessel is said to have been caught in high tide or choppy...
Education, acquiring an ability to combine and apply knowledge and skills, is a driving economic force for the 21st century, suggests India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The country must do more to prepare and employ its citizens, with more than half under the age of 30. “To employ its emerging...
Prime Minister Modi recently encouraged students to believe that “India will lead the 21st century” because the century’s driving force – knowledge – is with India. That may prove true at some point in the distant future, but right now, it is the...
India as an emerging economy struggles with constrained growth and rising unemployment. Yet India’s voters handed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party a decisive victory. Gilles Verniers, assistant professor of Political Science and co-director of the Trivedi Centre for...
Full focus: A photograph of Narendra Modi meditating on the Indian election’s final day went viral, and voters gave the prime minister a decisive victory, based on his image as a protector, despite growing ranks of unemployed
NEW DELHI: The...
The US Federal Communications Commission has rolled back net-neutrality rules but telecommunications companies may be slow to charge more for popular sites or slow down smaller sites that cannot pay new charges: “The net neutrality rules were approved in 2015,” explains Laurel Wamsley. “Companies...
Read the article from NPR about the US Federal Communications Commission’s rollback on net-neutrality regulations.
Is it only in periods of relative stability and peace that human rights should be an issue to the international community? The latest report from Human Rights Watch, a US-based international monitoring group, finds that the United States has undermined basic principles of human rights while...
(Washington, D.C., January 14, 2003) - Global support for the war on terrorism is diminishing partly because the United States too often neglects human rights in its conduct of the war, Human Rights Watch said today in...
Across the Mediterranean from France, Muslims and Christians alike are showing their distaste for the new French ban on "conspicuous" religious symbols in the schools. French politicians have decided that Muslim headscarves, Jewish yarmulkes, and "large" Christian crosses have...
France's much-discussed hijab ban has definitely squandered much of the popularity France enjoyed in the Middle East for its pro-Arab policies and strong objections to the US war on Iraq. Demonstrations against the...
