Human Rights Violations

Have you heard of the Ukraine-Russia war? If you have not come across a single article about the situation in Ukraine, then you must be living on Mars! Indeed, numerous press agencies and newspappers have been reporting from the ground. For instance, the media outlet Loopsider recently released a video…

Throughout the whole history of slavery, never has there been more suffering and more profit generated than what is happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo in this moment. Congo holds 70% of the world’s cobalt which is located in the south east of the country. Currently, the Chinese industry…

You should be too after all it is about our fundamental rights — I stumbled across an article reporting that a new Windows update has withdrawn the bootloader signatures. This is said to make it impossible to install or even boot older Linux distributions. The whole issue affects machines that have both Windows and Linux installed via dual boot. Even though I don’t…

Reading through the Aliyev press conference release from yesterday and wow is this man delusional. According to Cavid Ağa’s translation, Aliyev states “the thing that happened these days — that one person was returned there, he wasn’t returned empty handed, they also gave him two packs of cigarettes, because he…

I am an American by birth whose birth to consciousness occurred not on American soil. Perhaps it gives me a unique, or at least different, perspective upon introduction to an essentially different culture after my sense of self was already baked and well established, without apology. I grew up on…

It’s the one-year anniversary of Qantar (Bloody January) — a horrible tragedy that has turned my homeland Kazakhstan inside out. Having lived with this tragedy and its aftermath for a full year, I am out of words. But I need to say something. We all need to keep talking about it. Because if we keep silent, we will never get justice. CONTENT WARNING: graphic violence and sexual assault *** “Urma!” “Atpa!”

Since the end of the Second World War, a series of overlapping institutions to which most wealthy industrialised nations were signatories to, have existed in order to ensure the continued prosperity of those in the wealthy club. They have also existed in order to make sure some basic standards of…

I used to tell my students I never wanted them to see me in the front office, where I met with prison staff. At first, I was pretty good with the politics. Smile, say yes, laugh at their jokes. Listen to their ideas and gently push back or redirect to…