Muslim Issues

By Nathan Freed Wessler, Fellow, ACLU, and Pardiss Kebriaei, Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Today the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rightsfiled a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information about a horrific U.S. missile strike that killed dozens of civilians in Yemen. This was the Obama administration's first known missile strike in Yemen, carried out with one or more …

Thousands of victims still await justice while perpetrators roam around free Last week’s special court verdict, ten years after the anti Muslim pogrom in Gujarat,    convicting 23 people in the burning to death of 23   Muslim women and children in the Ode town brought some relief to the beleaguered Muslims. However confidence in the judiciary will be restored only after …

The New World Order under U.S. dominion turns international law on its head and puts criminal-bought flunkies on the judicial bench. America, which is not even a signatory to the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, calls all the shots like a Mafia don. Africans and a few Serbs are the only ones that get arrested, while great crimes …

JERUSALEM, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) – As 60 percent of the international activists set to land at Ben Gurion airport Sunday had their plane tickets cancelled, organisers of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ fly-in campaign condemned what they say is European complicity in Israel’s illegal restrictions on their right to travel freely. "It’s a sign of capitulation and obedience to illegal …

Young people are using social networking to drastically alter power dynamics, speak out against human rights abuses and end oppression.  Credit:UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6, 2012 (IPS) – In his keynote address to the Global Colloquium of University Presidents at New York's Columbia University last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the growing power exercised by …

Asia and Africa will account for a hefty 86 percent of all increases in the world's urban population in the next four decades, the United Nations said in a report released Wednesday. Africa's urban population will increase from the current 414 million to over 1.2 billion by 2050, while Asia will increase from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion.  The largest …