The Crisis of Human Rights: Discrimination Against Non-Citizens
The basic idea at the heart of human rights is that all human beings are equal: equal in rights – equal in human dignity. This …
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What ended chattel slavery in the British Empire?
The question of how legal chattel slavery in the British Empire came to an end is an important question to ask. It is far from …
Abolish Foreignness
Eight million children under the age of five die each year from largely preventable causes. One billion people live in abject poverty. Thousands die crossing international borders while …
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Prayer: A Vision of a World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt was the first Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Her work, with her colleagues, led to the adoption in 1948 of …
Oppression of Women: Gender Apartheid
Full equality of men and women has not been achieved anywhere in the world. What has been achieved has taken a century and a half. …
Will the real foreigners please stand up?
Either we all stand up or none of us do. Recently I read comments on the BBC page on Open Borders. One Mark Krikorian of the …