Independent World Report is a reader-sponsored magazine.
To support our work, subscribe our print edition.

Daughter of peace

By Cover November 25, 2009

Profile of Irom Sharmila Chanu and her struggle against military repression in Manipur.

From the killing fields to the courthouse

By Print/Scribd November 25, 2009

Genocide in Bosnia and the betrayal of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Unwelcoming shores

By Frontline November 21, 2009
Young Afghan girl at a detention centre: Photo by Noborder Lesvos.

Greece gives refugee status to 0.05% of asylum seekers after a first interview and recently abolished meaningful appeals… Yet, EU member states continue to return migrants, asylum seekers, and even unaccompanied children to Greece, simply pretending that everything is perfectly fine.

Stop feeding the generals

By Frontline November 21, 2009
Soldiers attacking protesters in Rangoon: Photo courtesy Alternative Asean Network on Burma.

As there was no UN mandated arms embargo, there were plenty of countries willing to keep supplying Burma’s newly enriched generals. China, Russia, Israel, Ukraine and others ensured Burma’s enlarged military was equipped with modern weaponry, paid for largely by Western investment.

Suffer the statelessness

By Frontline November 21, 2009
Bihari woman, Bangladesh: Photo by Shafiur Rahman.

Since 2004, Refugees International has visited over a dozen countries to assess the situation of people who are stateless or at risk of statelessness. The organisation’s most recent report – Nationality rights for all: A progress report and global survey on statelessness – provides an updated global survey of statelessness in over eighty countries and assesses progress made since 2005.

Impunity in the Philippines

By Frontline November 21, 2009
Migrante International picket: Photo via Arkibong Bayan.

Accusing the military of being in a state of denial, Philip Alston pointed to its counterinsurgency program, where activists were accused of supporting the communist party, and then systematically hunted down. According to Alston, activists were killed following a campaign of individual vilification by the military and that the strategy was designed to instil fear of the military in the community.

Slavery begins at home

By Frontline November 21, 2009
Photo by Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.

As the workplace for the domestic worker is in a private household it means that, in practice, the protections that do exist are not extended to her. Alarmingly, as the abuses take place behind closed doors and away from prying eyes it means that the treatment of domestic workers has become a hidden human rights issue.

Debt: Five thousand years

By Print/Scribd November 21, 2009
A new way to pay the national debt: Via Wikimedia Commons.

Slavery, violence and the history of debt: “The violence may be invisible, but it remains inscribed in the very logic of our economic common sense, in the apparently self-evident nature of institutions that simply would never and could never exist outside of the monopoly of violence.”

In hate we trust

By Print/Scribd November 21, 2009
In hate we trust

‘In hate we trust’ is a series of photographs that depicts hate crimes against the LGBT population worldwide through artistic reconstruction of real-life events.

Myths of neutrality

By Print/Scribd November 21, 2009
Myths of neutrality

Ignoring the Holocaust in Sweden and Switzerland: “The Nazi Gold issue rocked the boat in both countries and became a worldwide media controversy. It was effective because confrontation came from the outside: politicians in Sweden and Switzerland were forced to face the issues.”

© 2012 Independent World Report. All Rights Reserved. Log in - Developed and maintained by TypeTree