Human Rights

Extracts from “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar”

6 September 2017

The United Nations, Human Rights Council – 14th March 2017 Download full report here I. Introduction Professor Yanghee Lee in JPG 1. The present report is submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, to the Human Rights Council pursuant to [read more]

Myanmar: Worsening cycle of violence in Rakhine must be broken urgently, UN expert warns

6 September 2017

Professor Yanghee Lee in JPG GENEVA (31 August 2017) – A United Nations human rights expert has expressed alarm at the deteriorating situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, affecting not just the Rakhine and Muslim populations but also other communities. Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are [read more]

Extremes of wealth and income inequality

11 October 2016

The extremes of wealth and income inequality that have developed within the OECD countries, and particularly in the United States, since the early 1980s, have created unbalanced societies, which are by their nature more unstable than was the situation in the 1950s and 1960s. Arguably the mass of [read more]

A review of “Capitalism a Ghost Story” by Arundhati Roy

7 February 2016

A review of “Capitalism a ghost story” by Arundhati Roy, published by Verso London 2014 This short book, it is less than a hundred pages, is an attack on the power of Indian elites, represented by rich industrialists, entrepreneurs and politicians on those less fortunate in their society. This [read more]

Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Iraq 6 July – 10 September 2014 – UN

25 November 2014

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued this Report in September 2014 – http://www.ohchr.org/documents/countries/iq/unami_ohchr_poc_report_final_6july_10september2014.pdf The Report states [read more]

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Myanmar: Worsening cycle of violence in Rakhine must be broken urgently, UN expert warns

Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Iraq 6 July – 10 September 2014 – UN