Reporting, commentary, and analysis on international human rights, humanitarian law, civil liberties, displacement, accountability, justice, and the protection of fundamental freedoms worldwide.
A film about the man who counted Punjab’s secret dead was itself made to disappear. What the removal of Satluj reveals about how democracies handle an unusable past. Rivers possess an inconvenient habit. They remember what civilizations insist on forgetting. They carry mountain silt for thousands of miles, preserving the geology of places they have…
By: Naveed Ahmed If the attention is built into how human rights language actually functions in the world, the natural next question is whether anything can be done about it, or whether this is simply an unavoidable feature of a system that depends on political will to operate. This final parts looks at what reform…
As witnessed, two humanitarian crisis unfold in a same month, causing similar levels of death and displacement, yet, receiving completely different amounts of global attention. One becomes a sustained global story, with daily coverage, celebrity involvement, and diplomatic summits called specifically to address it. Meanwhile, other gets a brief mention, perhaps a short mention on…
The Baloch National Question and Pakistan’s Digital Media Narrative Balochistan is contested twice: first as a political territory, and then as a story. For the Pakistani state, the conflict is commonly framed through sovereignty, security and the threat of externally supported militancy. For Baloch activists, it is framed through political exclusion, enforced disappearance, economic injustice…
A soldier fires into a crowd in one country and it becomes a headline, running for several months of global news channels, condemned by Presidents, Investigated by International Bodies. While, a soldier fires into a crowd in a different country and it becomes a short wire report, mentioned once, then Forgotten by next news cycle….