by Dr. Mazin Qumsieh
So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian [...]
by Henri Ismail
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An economic crisis hit Southeast Asian countries including Indonesia, in 1997. A political crises developed in Indonesia as a result of the economic crisis. Pioneered by the students, the people’s movements then emerged and grew everywhere. They demanded price decreases, procurement of basic goods, and more over, an end to the [...]
I was shocked and dismayed last night, to hear teenagers roaming the streets in my Copenhagen neighborhood, shouting racist slogans as they demonstratively marched down the middle of the street. While I have been aware of incidents where youth have expressed racial hatred in Denmark before, I had always understood this to be largely a [...]
Human rights have largely been lacking a high profile in Denmark since 9/11. The main exception, has been with regards to a debate about freedom of expression, in the context of the Muhammad caricatures. There has been some debate about Danish asylum policy and Amnesty International continues to criticize the extensive use of solitary confinement [...]
Terrorism is a worldwide phenomenon and no single ethnic, national, religious or ideological group can be held responsible. Westerners are often terror targets, but the majority of victims are usually local citizens. These families are often hard hit financially. They have hospital or funeral bills, lost income, etc.
Another of my projects is to raise money [...]
You wouldn’t steal a car or rip DVDs, but you would steal the intellectual property of past, present and future generations in the developing world? Stop the harvesting now. To learn more, please read this article from the Jakarta Post.
Not only is intellectual property being harvested in the developing world, genomes are as well. Indonesia [...]
The leader of the extreme right Danish People’s Party, expressed yesterday the intent of pulling Denmark out of international human rights conventions. The DPP is the parliamentary support for the current Danish government. Pia Kjaersgaard, the leader of the party explained that such drastic action needed to be taken when it has proved to be [...]
Project Sunshine is a micro project that I have initiated for providing aid to underprivileged, extended family groups in Indonesia. Funding for projects in the developing world, often don’t take into account local family structures when providing aid. Many Indonesian families rely on extended family members for mutual aid when trying to meet expenses in [...]
National boundaries and national school policies are decreasing in importance as new models of organization, learning, cooperation and production (both knowledge and industrial based), are evolving through community, collaboration and ...
The Danish public school system does not live up to the standards defined in articles 28, 29 & 30 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ...
Creating a democratic constitution that reflects the needs of an organization can prove to be a challenge for someone that has never tried it before. Below is a generic text ...
There has been a lot of debate in recent days in Denmark about statements from vicars and members of parliament that they would hide illegal refugees to prevent them from ...