The UN High Commission on Refugees was created 60 years ago today to care for European refugees after World War Two. Today, it looks after 43 million people around the world.
Despite a cholera epidemic, 1.3 million homeless, and a volatile political situation, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will resume deporting Haitians in January.
Evgeny Morozov says we should think of hactivists who launch denial of service attacks as practicing a form of civil disobedience. It seems to me that the fundamental difference between a "sit in" and a DDoS attack is the latter is a kind of censorship.
United States Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice will announce later today that the United States will introduce an amendment in the General Assembly to prohibit the violent targeting of people based on their sexual orientation.
62 years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration for Human Rights. Since then, December 10th has become known as international human rights day. And it is no coincidence that the Nobel Prize decided to hold its awards ceremony for Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.
The Guardian posted an intriguing diplomatic cable from the Wikileaks archive in which the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka says very plainly that Sri Lankan government and military officials are responsible for a massacre of Tamil civilians
I am probably the only full time blogger to ever have worked at Interpol headquarters, so it behooves me to explain the "Interpol Red Notice," which is the mechanism through which the Swedish government is requesting the arrest and extradition of Jullian Assange for sex crimes.
