Damage control seems to have been effective and the rumblings from the early July thunder have become faint reverberations. But that it was required at all shows the capacity of Chinese authorities to disregard their own and other countries’... When the architect of Arizona's anti-immigration measure, SB1070, Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, talks about repealing the 14th amendment to detain and deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants, it may not be merely... This year marks the 10th anniversary of a landmark piece of international law codifying the link between women, peace and security known as U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000). As a Security Council Resolution, it is by definition binding... The social engineering venture of the Islamic Republic has been a systematic attempt of the ruling machinery to reshape the socio-cultural infrastructure of the Iranian society in accordance with the ideological mandate of the state. It has been an...www.opendemocracy.net 
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