Europe

By Lisa Mittendrein and Valentin Schwarz Source: redpepper.org With Greece facing a snap general election on 25 January 2015, there is the genuine prospect of a radical left government coming to power in an EU country. Syriza, a party born…

Human Wrongs Watch A senior United Nations refugee official on 2 January 2015 stressed the need for urgent action by European nations to protect migrants at sea following recent incidents involving hundreds of people stranded in the Mediterranean while attempting…

The vote last week in the Ukrainian parliament was a seriously disturbing move – it has made reconciliation with Russia near impossible. The parliament voted to work for Ukraine’s membership of NATO, a red rag to a bear. The truth…

Occupy London’s report on the latest action by Occupy Democracy: #OccupyDemocracy returned to Parliament Square as planned this mid-winter weekend, with a focus on housing and homelessness. The turnout wasn’t huge – it was cold, it was just a few…

My response to the blatant anti-Islamic rhetoric pronounced by a professor during India Ideas Conclave in Goa on 20 December 2014 By Valery Novoselsky Dr. Koenraad Elst from Belgium happened to be a panelist on a session entitled “Religion –…

By Dr Paul Hobday for Open Democracy: Our NHS [National Health Service] The NHS was set up to ensure doctors put patients before profits. But that is now being rapidly undermined in favour of a US-style system. What English doctors know…

Change of location for the last day of the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates: no longer the auditorium Music Park, but Julio Cesar Sala del Campidoglio, seat of the Communal Council of Rome. Many of the themes developed, starting with…

Athens, Paris, 18 December 2014 Austerity measures adopted in response to the economic crisis have adversely impacted human rights, such as the rights to work and health, and curtailed fundamental freedoms in Greece, denounce FIDH and its member organisation the…

An announcement of the Humanist Party, Belgium, tells of its priorities and the tasks that lie ahead in these troubled times and as stated, activists must know how to prioritize and not get caught up in secondary issues. The text…

Human Wrongs Watch In the Netherlands, assisting migrants living on the streets is not a matter of charity but rather an obligation of the Government, a group of United Nations human rights experts on 16 December 2014 said as they…