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Living Under Police Protection: Advocates for Muslim Women Face Constant Danger

September 11, 2006
The legal system is often helpless, when it comes to intervention on cultural or family differences, such as assisting women who refuse to enter arranged marriages. Or the police help arrives too late. Muslim women who want to shed cultural restrictions endure taunts, brutal attacks and even death...

Bangladesh in Al Qaeda’s Crosshairs?

February 19, 2014
An audio clip on a website known as Jihadology, claiming to be from an Al Qaeda leader in hiding, has called on Bangladeshi Muslims to fight secularists and atheists. “Though authenticity of the audio tape remained unconfirmed, this type of message raised concerns among the cross section of people...

Reform Begins At Home

February 11, 2003
In the past few weeks, Saudi Arabia’s leaders have allowed officials from Human Rights Watch to visit their country, encouraged popular participation and tolerance, and signaled a willingness to pursue a more moderate state. But, as this article explains, both domestically and internationally...

India Measures Itself Against a China That Doesn’t Notice

September 6, 2011
India is in a race, comparing the pace of its economic development not with Western economic powers but with its neighbor, China, writes Vikas Bajaj for the New York Times. Comparisons on infrastructure, universities and armed forces are a constant feature in India's newspapers. But China does...

Reform of Bretton Woods Institutions: The IMF Might Not Live to See Its Anniversary

April 24, 2014
A key issue confronting finance ministers and central bankers is reform of the International Monetary Fund. A major element of the system was fixed exchange rates for the currencies of participant countries and credit for countries in need, explains Valentin Katasonov for Global Research, a...

Telegraph: Yemen Death Toll Higher Than Estimated

December 13, 2018
The civil war in Yemen has raged since 2015, and the death toll is difficult to assess due to rough conditions on the ground. “The figure of 10,000 used by the United Nations is outdated and nowhere near the likely true fatality figure of 60,223, according to UK-based independent research group...

Analysis: Iran Deals May Not Herald Rapid Changes

January 18, 2016
The terms of a nuclear agreement with Iran are being implemented, followed by a prisoner exchange, planning for an order of Airbus planes, and release of frozen Iranian assets, but the Associated Press warns that rapid change is unlikely. “It will take time for the economic benefits to trickle down...

Southeast Asian Democratization in the Era of Globalization

January 16, 2008
Anticipating the consequences of globalization is one way of adapting to the rapid change. Increasingly, individuals acquire wealth not so much through hard work or innovation than by predicting globalization’s intricate twisting paths. Cities and citizens in the developed nations, while they...
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