Tunisia, the country where human rights standards were the highest in the Maghreb region, is now confronting with the challenge of building a modern, democratic society maintaining its Islamic roots. There are signs of a move in an increasingly Islamic direction, in the political-institutional...
If we look at the map “The night of Syria” published by Mapping the World, we see death rates, military bases, sectarian divisions and bombs on cities. I have always wondered what other eyes could see on such a map, in particular the eyes of politicians and decision-makers. That’s...
Le renditions sono pratiche che si riferiscono al rapimento di una persona e al suo trasferimento da uno Stato all'altro, in un centri di detenzione segreti. Tutto ciò compiuto al di fuori di ogni procedura legale nazionale o internazionale. È una pratica particolarmente abietta...
Dictatorship, monarchy, human rights violations, corruption, economic decline, unemployment and extreme poverty. These are the key words to understand the roots of the so-called Arab Spring, and those are the demands of the Syrian people as well. Needless to say, every country has been reacting...
Ten years have passed since the detention center of Guantanamo Bay started hosting prisoners of the “War on Terror”. After a massive use of its facilities by the Bush administration, President Obama officially declared he would have closed it. He did not. For ten years all human rights...
