A Turkish Spring? Over 1,000 Injured as Anti-Government Protests Spread Outside of Istanbul
Turkey is seeing its biggest wave of protests against the ruling government in many years. Tens of thousands of people rallied across the country Sunday for a third consecutive day of mass demonstrations….
War and Peace in Turkey: From the attack on Syria’s border to the PKK’s retreat
In the same week in which Turkey watched on with hope at the initial phase of the withdrawal of PKK soldiers across the Iraqi border, two bombs explosion went off in the village…
Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of Carbon Dioxide Tops 400 ppm for First Time in Human History
Scientists are warning the planet has now reached a grim climate milestone not seen for two or three million years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide…
Heightened tensions in Posco Project Area : A fact finding report
On the 9th of March 2013, a 12 member team consisting of human rights activists, journalists, academicians, democratic rights and civil liberty activists, conducted a fact finding visit to Patana and Gobindapur villages…
Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. Navy
On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, thousands are commemorating the 10th anniversary of when the U.S. Navy stopped using their home as a bombing range. Since the 1940s, the Navy used nearly…
Asghar Ali Engineer (1939-2013)
Kafila, May 14, 2013. An obituary by ZAHIR JANMOHAMED: I first met Asghar Ali Engineer in January 2002 in Mumbai. I was a fellow with the America India Foundation and a few weeks…
Hefazat-e-Jamaat, Nothing Else : On the Recent Developments in Bangladesh
Kafila, May 14, 2013 “Talibaner aar ek naam – hefazat-e-Islam!” (Another name for Taliban, Hefazat-e-Islam) – Slogan raised at Shahbagh square To such a degree has Religion fuelled conflict, complicated politics, retarded social…
Is Italy Ready for an African-born Minister?
Two months after the elections, Italy has a government. And Cécile Kyenge, 48 years old, an eye surgeon and Congo-born Italian citizen, is the new Minister for Integration in the cabinet of Prime…
Evicting the Gandhians: Justin Podur interviews Himanshu Kumar
Himanshu Kumar is a Gandhian activist who, together with his wife, ran the Vanvasi Chetana Ashram in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh for 22 years. He learned the local adivasi language (Gondi) and worked through the…
Why France doesn’t want to let Aminata Traoré in and Germany allowed her only inside Berlin
Malian writer, activist, former member of government Aminata Traoré is unwelcome in France, and, thanks to the ‘open borders’ of the Schengen Area, she is persona non grata in pretty much all of…
