Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim concedes that renewed sexual abuse charges may delay his return to parliament but vowed that the accusations will not divert the opposition’s challenge to the ruling National Front coalition. Addressing several thousand supporters on Tuesday …
Che Guevara lives! But only as a Mike Tyson tattoo, dorm room poster and radical chic T-shirt. Revolutionary nostalgia may still be the rage amongst cultural elites but, as former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda notes, insurrections are passé in …
The World Movement for Democracy ‘s Democracy Alert features a report from Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), that the communist authorities have placed several Beijing-based human rights lawyers and activists under house arrest. CHRD believes that the house arrests are …
A resurgence of hard-liners within the country’s Muslim Brotherhood is giving Jordan’s government a convenient pretext to target civil society, including secular non-governmental organizations and Christian groups. New legislation will increase government’s already stringent controls over NGOs and restrict public …
Activists fearful of “unity pact” precedent
The African Union remains divided over Zimbabwe, according to accounts of the ongoing AU summit, with a hard core of despotic regimes recognizing Robert Mugabe’s discredited regime while a new generation of democratic …