The Instrumentalization of Human Rights is the Most Serious Threat to Human Rights

Abstract: Generally, human rights are claims made by disempowered social groups that those with power over them must do for them or must not do to them. As such, these rights can be universal. But so is the abuse of such rights because of the universality of power systems—all human societies, throughout history and across
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What is in the “Sacheen Littlefeather with ‘Long Overdue’ Apology After Mistreatment at 1973 Oscars” News?

Reports of the “Academy” attempting to right a wrong are circulating widely. Headlines like this, Academy Honors Sacheen Littlefeather with ‘Long Overdue’ Apology After Mistreatment at 1973 Oscars, cover all mainstream media. A sample of the coverage can be sampled here: After the Indigenous actress and activist, 75, faced mistreatment at the 45th Academy Awards
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Study: Britain used one of its medical schools as a colonial institution

A recent study confirms that Britain used the London School of Tropical Medicine as an institution serving its colonial goals between 1899 and 1960; essentially confirming the use of science and medicine to further the system of colonialism, recognized by many scholars now as a crime. According to the study by Leuba Hirsch, of the
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Towards a global alliance to compensate for colonialism and its crimes

by Muhammed Khalil Al-Mousa * The idea of ​​colonialism has historically been based on the practice of imposing political, economic, social, cultural and legal domination by a foreign state, often a Western state, over a foreign territory and its inhabitants. Colonialism, which extended from the sixteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, was
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Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa

In Property, Institutions and Social Stratification in Africa, Franklin Obeng-Odoom offers a new comprehensive exploration of inequalities within Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world, drawing on stratification economics. The book offers compelling and crucial insight into the deficiencies of mainstream economics when it comes to addressing the roots of poverty and inequality in African countries and provides new evidence of neocolonialism and exploitation of African resources across the continent, yet the challenge remains of how to bring African countries the rewards of their past, present and future property.
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For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq

Why is the use of international law becoming increasingly prevalent in global affairs? What are the consequences of the widespread use of such an incoherent, colonial and imperial law as the lingua franca? In For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq, Ayça Çubukçu asks these highly important questions and reveals the ambivalent
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