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Israel vs Iran: fallout of a war, Paul Rogers Srebrenica, fifteen years on, Peter Lippman "More than just a pound of flesh"?, Alice Welbourn Europe's Muslims: burqa laws, women's lives, Sara Silvestri Female emancipation masks intolerance in the "burqa debate", Ghazal Tipu 24 hours in Gaza, Sameh Habeeb Forbidden Art verdict: they're in mourning for Soviet censorship, Tatiana Shcherbina Sudan woefully unprepared for referendum, Josephine Whitaker Rethinking asylum, Colin Firth
Israel vs Iran: fallout of a war, Paul Rogers The voices in Washington calling for a military strike on Iranian nuclear plants are growing in number and strength. The cautious attitude of the Barack Obama administration itself in relation to such a course means that direct military action by... Read more » Srebrenica, fifteen years on, Peter Lippman On Sunday 11 July 2010, the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, hundreds of families bury their relatives in a mass funeral. Mothers, daughters, and wives grieve beneath the scorching sun. Politicians perform. The... Read more » "More than just a pound of flesh"?, Alice Welbourn Next week the biennial International AIDS Conference comes to Europe again, this time in Vienna. Entitled “Rights here, right now”, it will enable us to turn the world’s spotlight on what is happening with HIV and women in Europe. Although... Read more » Europe's Muslims: burqa laws, women's lives, Sara Silvestri The burqa, and associated items of some Muslim women’s dress (the niqab and jilbab) is once more at the centre of political controversy in Europe. In fact, the immediate event that has propelled it to the centre of attention - a near-unanimous... Read more » Female emancipation masks intolerance in the "burqa debate", Ghazal Tipu Though European, Britain stood somewhat apart from its counterparts in the twentieth century and enjoyed a tradition of celebrating diversity, multiculturalism and protecting minority rights. However, amidst a growing European xenophobia - the... Read more » 24 hours in Gaza, Sameh Habeeb If you are a Palestinian living in Gaza, your first priority as you get up in the morning will be politics. If you are me, you will scour the latest news on al Jazeera followed by several other news outlets – maybe Al Arabiya, BBC Arabic or Al... Read more » Forbidden Art verdict: they're in mourning for Soviet censorship, Tatiana Shcherbina Andrei Erofeev or Yurii Samodurov would just be ‘one of us’, regular Soviet untermenschen, if they’d been caught stealing someone’s business, laundering money, building roads which cost as much as gold, taking gross bribes, maiming soldiers... Read more » Sudan woefully unprepared for referendum, Josephine Whitaker The Sudanese government and its international backers are “alarmingly” underprepared for crucial referenda on the country’s future scheduled for January 2011, says a report released yesterday. “Renewing the Pledge”, published by a coalition... Read more » Rethinking asylum, Colin Firth As the Coalition government reappraises how the UK treats those who seek sanctuary within its borders, OurKingdom publishes an article by actor Colin Firth based on his submission to the Home Office Review into Ending the Detention of Children for... Read more »