Human Rights Archives - Page 179 of 375

Postcard from…Mini Numa

by Daniel Moss | Oct 25, 2010

Ten Mixteco men led me across a stream and through a cornfield on a toilet tour of Mini Numa. At each adobe hut housing a shiny white flush toilet, I snapped a photo of a contented owner. In recent years, six children had died in this small village from diseases rooted in poverty and lack of sanitation. With the support of the human rights organization, Tlachinollan, the Mini Numa community had forced the hand of the government to support the right to health.

U.S. Military Aid Far Outpaces Democracy Assistance

by Jim Lobe | Oct 20, 2010

Desperate to secure supply routes to Afghanistan, the United States has been spending at least six times more on military aid for the mostly authoritarian states of Central Asia than on efforts to promote political liberalisation and human rights in the region, according to a new report released here by the Open Society Foundations (OSF).

Big Chocolate’s Child Slavery Addiction

by Andrew Korfhage | Oct 18, 2010

Sorry to scare you, but on Halloween much of the chocolate Americans will hand out to trick-or-treaters will be tainted by the labor of enslaved children.

Taking Advantage of Chile’s Moment in the Sun to Commemorate Letelier and Moffitt

by Russ Wellen | Oct 17, 2010

The namesakes of the IPS Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award were murdered in perhaps the first terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Creating Cultural Bridges: The Art of Edgar Endress

by Peter Certo | Oct 15, 2010

Chilean-born Edgar Endress is a Virginia-based artist, professor, and founding member of the Floating Lab Collective. Endress’ work stresses a context-dependent blend of media that both forges and illustrates an integration of art and social engagement. For Endress and his Floating Lab Collective, the opportunities for social interaction afforded by his work are every bit as integral to the performance as whatever audio or visual elements he uses to stimulate them. Endress recently met with Foreign Policy In Focus to discuss his recent work on immigration, his theories of social engagement, and his travels to the Balkans.

The Spectacle of the Disappeared

by Vicente Garcia Groyon | Oct 7, 2010

Translating a play usually involves only translating the source text’s language while retaining details of periods, characters, names, settings, etc. In the Philippines, a concerted nationalistic effort begun in the late 1960s saw classics of world theater translated into Tagalog.

Getting History Right the First Time

by Russ Wellen | Sep 24, 2010

In his classic novel Every Man Dies Alone, just published last year in English but written immediately after World War II, Hans Fallada gets it right the first time.

Israel-Iran War: Not Inevitable

by Rex Wingerter | Sep 13, 2010

A chorus of pundits has lately been arguing that an Israeli attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities is either inevitable or commendable. Recently, Jeffery Goldberg predicts in The Atlantic that Israeli will strike by next July. Reuel Marc Gerecht, an editor for the Weekly Standard, urges that regional stability calls for Israel wasting no more time in launching a pre-emptive hit. These arguments predictably come from the neoconservative crowd who urged the United States to topple Saddam Hussein as an avenue toward reaching regime change in Iran.

Fahrenheit 451, Park 51, and Mainstreaming Hate

by M. Junaid Levesque-Alam | Sep 12, 2010

The right pulled off a neat trick by conflating burning the Koran with building an Islamic center near Ground Zero.

Review: ‘Oceania’

by Greg Chaffin | Sep 10, 2010

The word Oceania typically conjures up images of reclining with a fruity cocktail under a canopy of palm trees while gazing out at the blue waters of the Pacific, whose waves softly embrace the pristine white sand beaches of what surely is paradise. However, this paradise is an illusion that hides a dark truth: villagers evicted from their ancestral homes after nuclear fallout, whole nations slowly sinking due to global warming, staggering unemployment and material deprivation. Unfortunately the rest of the world, which is quite content to continue policies of exploitation, ignores these problems and many others that plague the islands of the Pacific.