humanity

Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of politicians, legislators, activists, women in politics and the everyday voter.

NEGOTIATING AMNESTIES, PEACE AND JUSTICE
For many international lawyers, judges, and human rights actors, the ‘peace versus justice’ debate has long been resolved in favour of justice. They can point to a ‘growing tendency in international law to see amnesties as unacceptable’; to the overturning of longstanding amnesties in some countries; and to the institutionalisation of an anti-amnesty policy at the United Nations as indicators of how certain concessions on justice are no longer permissible even when adopted to ensure peace and to prevent new atrocities.
By Mary4 years ago in The Swamp
The Freedom to Learn and the Path to Peace
My daughter recently overheard a conversation I was having with my husband about Ukraine. You’d be surprised what kids pick up on and what they are curious about. We started talking about it in the car on the way to the store. I remember my parents broaching difficult subjects while stuck in traffic. Likewise, I’d occasionally ask them some difficult questions from the back seat of the car. There you have a captive audience.
By Leslie Writes4 years ago in The Swamp
Ukrainian Bridal Dressmaker Uncertain about Future Amid War
For the past few weeks, I have been messaging the seamstress who designed my wedding dress in 2020. She is now a Ukrainian refugee living in Moldova. She is struggling with trauma from her exodus from Ukraine and from watching news stories about her region getting bombed and attacked by Russians.
By Andrea Lawrence4 years ago in The Swamp
The 40th Anniversary of the Hama Massacre: Sustained Collusion
“Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes” is a book edited by Alexander Mikhabridze, lawyer and professor of history at the University of Louisiana; It was published in 2013 as part of ABC-CLIO publications. The work is closer to a dictionary, in alphabetical order of facts starting from the year 689 BC, with the massacre of Babylon ordered by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, which resulted in the killing of the entire population of the city, and the diversion of the rivers to completely submerge it; And it ends in 2012, with the Houla massacre committed by the Syrian regime forces in the town of Taldo and its surroundings, and the number of its victims reached 108, including 34 women and 49 children (according to the United Nations, whose numbers the book was based on). The date of the book's publication explains the absence of subsequent massacres committed by Bashar al-Assad's army and the militias supporting it in other locations and dates in Syria, especially those that took the form of chemical attacks.
By abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
Israeli demographic and security concerns
Both security and demography are core concerns for Israel and its continuation as an apartheid state; For this reason, numerous seminars and conferences are held annually in Israeli research centers, institutes and universities to reach specific results and recommendations and assess the situation accordingly.
By abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
The killing of the leader of the "state"... and 6 children and 4 women!
The US statements about the killing of the leader of the “Islamic State” named (among many other names) Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi are surrounded by circumstances that are not commensurate with the goals announced by President Joe Biden of the operation, which are “to protect the American people and America’s allies and make the world safer.”
By abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
Freedom Means Responsibility
Widely traveled, I say with certainty there is no better place to live than the United States (in my humble opinion). Americans have freedom to travel across the country and outside of it, at will. The pandemic over the last two years has placed some restrictions on the American people we are not used to; however, we're not oppressed nor experiencing the destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, churches, and apartment complexes. We don't have soldiers rampaging towns, raping, murdering, and committing genocide, as the Ukrainians currently are at the hands of the Russians. We can't imagine explosive mines on our streets, yet the Russians have mined the cities of Ukraine as they exit. Obviously, Putin is committing war crimes, and just like the Nuremberg trials so many years ago, those guilty should be found and tried.
By Andrea Corwin 4 years ago in The Swamp
A Modern-Day Quest for Freedom
A field of radiant sunflowers (sunyashniki) nestled in verdant foliage is an apt representation of the country known as Ukraine. Representing the warmth and power of the sun, the national flower of Ukraine thrives in fields that face the eastern sunrise.
By Linda Rivenbark4 years ago in The Swamp
Sedition Game
The sectarian clash erupts suddenly, without warning, and for trivial reasons, it may be an innocent or not innocent love story between two parties of different religions, or children messing with slogans or religious signs, or thuggery attacks with the intent of stealing a church or harming a mosque, then fires and blood shed After that, there will be nothing but sadness and the accumulation of anger in the souls, and the parrot constantly repeating the slogans of national unity, holding primitive customary sessions, and grooming beards between sheikhs and priests, and without fair trials that separate, and no punishment inflicted on the killers.
By Mahrez4 years ago in The Swamp
A clash in the imagined "Orthodox civilization".
Attention - when the "clash of civilizations" of Samuel Huntington became famous in the nineties of the last century - overshadowed the refutation of what is related to the clash between Western and Islamic civilizations, at the expense of Huntington's unusual view of what he singled out under the title "Orthodox Civilization". And the scope of its conflicts with other civilizations.
By abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
Korea - Russia - Iran: political messages with missiles!
The last two weeks of this month witnessed three serious incidents in which rockets were used. The first event took place in Iraq, where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard targeted a site in the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, with twelve missiles at the dawn of March 13, and the second took place five days after the first, when the Russian army targeted areas in Ukraine with supersonic “Kinzhal” missiles. As for the third, it happened 6 days after the Russian bombing, in which North Korea used an intercontinental ballistic missile that fell in the “exclusive economic zone” of Japan.
By Abd elrhmen4 years ago in The Swamp
True Love & Honesty.. Is this country only for Muslims
Javed Chaudhry writes that last Tuesday, when our present Prime Minister Mr. Imran Khan was giving a speech, I was listening to a message from a young Pakistani who was a stranger to me. Asked if I am a Christian or a Pakistani, is this country Pakistan not ours? So I told him that I have no other choice but to go, so I am in Pakistan, but you have the choice of other countries, yet you live here in Pakistan, then your right is more than mine, that is, your Pakistan If he has more right than me then he said then why this prime minister in his every statement mentions only Muslims and princely state of Madina only why don't he talk only Pakistani
By Subohy4 years ago in The Swamp