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#BelieveSurvivors: Dismantling Emotional and Verbal Violence Against Survivors 101
Trigger Warning: Sexual violence, Rape culture Note: In the following, the word ‘survivor’ has been used for victims of sexual trauma since it is the most generally accepted term.…
Easier Said Than Done (ESTD) Report on 38th regular session of the HRC.
Since the inception of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Easier Said Than Done (ESTD) series has reviewed Commonwealth member states’ performance at the HRC. The series provides a basis…
Why Men Are Scared of the F-Word
I was sitting at the Senate House Library researching on Claire Underwood’s model of power politics when I came across this interesting post on my friend’s timeline. What was even…
7 Points to reclaiming Mother Earth
As April ends and summer tightens its grip on the Northern Hemisphere, we put behind us the observation of Earth Day, an annual event since 1970 celebrated now in over…
Breaking: House of Lords defeats government plans to scrap EU rights charter after Brexit
London, UK: The UK Government has suffered another embarrassing defeat on its flagship Brexit bill in the House of Lords after peers voted to keep a key EU human rights charter as part of…
Jagmeet Singh, India & Sins of Our Fathers.
1st of October 2017, saw Mr. Jagmeet Singh, a lawyer and the son of Indian Sikh immigrants from Punjab, became the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party winning of votes…
The Bear vs The Bird: Turkey shots down Russian aircrafts over Syrian airspace
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq or Daesh, is now deemed to be global threat, that…
Essential facts about U.S. Supreme Court gay marriage case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hears arguments over whether states may ban gay marriage. Here is a look at the case, known as Obergefell v. Hodges. WHEN…
The Curious Case of Google Books (Authors Guild v Google Books)
Google Books has been into news, not for the snippets of information that it has been supplying, but for a very long and protracted litigation, whose end does not seem…
The Plight Of Transgenders In The Global Prison System
You know them as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people. Judith Light A transsexual person is someone who lives or proposes to live in the gender opposite to…