The deadly sectarian clashes between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas could derail Burma’s reform process, a prominent activist warned today.
The government today said it had evidence that the communal violence in western Burma over the past 10 days –which left …
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (right) said today that he was returning money donated by supporters after exhausting legal channels to contest a huge tax bill widely considered official punishment for his rights activism.
In stark contrast to Ai’s principled …
The director-general of UNESCO today called for an investigation into this week’s killing of two leading Somali journalists.
“I condemn the murder of Mohammed Mohamud Tuuryare [left] and Ahmed Farah Ilyas,” said Irina Bokova. “The number of journalists killed …
“As China’s Communist Party prepares for its leadership transition, a wave of self-immolations has spread and accelerated across Tibet, in the most sustained protests against Beijing’s rule there in five decades,” Simon Denyer writes in the Washington Post:
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“Syrian opposition leaders of all stripes will convene in Qatar next week to form a new leadership body to subsume the opposition Syrian National Council, which is widely viewed as ineffective, consumed by infighting, and little respected on the …
At a time of democratic regression, even in supposedly consolidated democracies, an important new book on the ‘Sovietization’ of eastern Europe explains the allure of the ‘totalitarian temptation’ and describes the techniques with which authoritarian rule is imposed, not …
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich today dismissed international criticism of Sunday’s parliamentary election which his Party of the Regions seems set to win, while opposition nationalists have threatened street protests against alleged vote-rigging.“The opposition says Yanukovich’s rule is marred …
“Members of the Memorial human rights society, relatives of victims and others come here once a year to stand near the Solovetsky Stone, brought from the White Sea island where the Soviets organized their first prison camp in 1923, …
Nobel Literature laureate Mo Yan wasn’t the only Chinese writer to be honored this month, writes Louisa Greve. Two other celebrated authors received international recognition for work that demonstrates a more credible and consistent affirmation of the necessity of …
The reported killing of a secular Tunisian labor activist by supporters of the ruling Ennahda party has raised political tensions and concerns about the illiberal drift of the country’s transition as the country approaches the anniversary of its first free …