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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are tempted to use this occasion to remember a few other heroes of peace.

Cover story by Deepti Priya Mehrotra, author of Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the struggle for peace in Manipur. Irom Sharmila has been on a fast unto death for ten years, demanding a repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur, India. Ten innocent people were mowed down by security forces in [...]

Amila Jašarević details how the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, failed the victims and survivors of one of the worst genocides in history: Genocide in Bosnia.

David Graeber writes about slavery, violence and the history of debt.

Brian Palmer gives a preview of his first documentary film, on his experience as an embedded journalist during the war in Iraq.