World Order, Human Rights, and the Security Council Veto
The Security Council is an unedifying conflation of craven geopolitics. The veto power of the P5 is incompatible with the protection and promotion of human rights.
Review – The Endtimes of Human Rights
Hopgood doesn’t write for novices, nor is his book path-breaking, yet it offers serious, disturbing, food for thought about the concept of Human Rights in transformation.
Review – Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights
Freedman’s vivid accounts of human rights violations and the failure of the UN machinery offers an emotional depth that many other books on the subject lack.
Review – The Massacres at Mt. Halla
Hun Joon Kim’s analysis represents a welcome and well-written, but ultimately very partial, view of the search for ‘comprehensive truth’ in South Korea.
Why the Continuing Siege on Reproductive Rights?
Understanding attacks on reproductive rights requires examining historical, psychological, legal, religious, & political perspectives to find answers.
Review – UNICEF: Global Governance That Works
Jolly’s analysis offers its readers a powerful understanding of the work that UNICEF has done on humanity-focused development and its unique nature within the UN system.
Review Feature – One Family, One Destiny
This feature examines two books that explore universalised human nature and political action, and deftly illuminate the epistemological lineages of the modern world.
Opposition in Bolivarian Venezuela: Caught Between Conflict and Compromise
The Venezuelan opposition has undergone important changes in an institutionalist direction in its composition, discursive emphasis, and strategic direction.
States, Migrants, and Rights
Today, refugees are increasingly at risk in the context of a European approach to migration which has once again made refugees deportable. This trend requires attention.
Egypt’s New Constitution: A Mixed Bag
The new Egyptian constitution is a mix of progressive and regressive elements. Its success depends on the willingness of the judiciary and military to support reforms.
