Posts Tagged Human Rights
A Little Less Conversation…
Posted by Carolina Bracken in Civil Liberty, European Union, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights on 28/01/2011
Human Rights Watch World Report 2011 has slammed the EU for its overreliance on dialogue rather than action in tackling human rights abuse, and for its “obsequious” approach to known rights violators. Whilst there is no inherent harm in cooperative dialogue, the EU seems “particularly infatuated” with this discursive model.
Plugging the WikiLeaks
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in America, Civil Liberty, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Politics on 02/12/2010
The WikiLeaks story has, along with Snowmaggedon, been the central theme of this week’s news. Opinions appear very sharply divided between those who think the leaks are ‘putting lives at risk’ and others who feel the goings-on of high politics should be accessible to all. The niggling questions are: do the leaks really matter at all and if so, who should bear the responsibility for a negative outcome?
Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks