Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar
Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar's coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with...
Legal and Holistic Perspectives on The Gambia v Myanmar at ICJ
"These processes do not automatically improve humanitarian responses, amend the Myanmar Constitution, eliminate discriminatory laws, support restorative justice among divided communities, or directly build rule of law in Myanmar. They are complementary to and not a substitute for long-term solutions."
The Gambia vs Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ): The Uncertainties and Limits
FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles Across Asia. On 10 February 2022, FORSEA will host the second roundtable with two well-known American legal scholars, namely Michael A. Becker, who served as Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice at the Hague from 2010-2014 and Dr Katherine Southwick, formerly with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and now an engaged scholar on the...
The addresses from Tapan Kumar Bose and Barbara Harriss-White at FORSEA’s global civil society gathering
In increasing frequency and ferocity, Muslims are threatened, lynched, beaten, raped, and murdered, and their homes, businesses, and mosques vandalized and attacked. Disturbingly, there’s been little action taken against the perpetrators. Lynching of Muslims by Hindu nationalists are so commonplace today that the attacks are often organized on social media.
Professor Noam Chomsky’s address at the FORSEA event: A Scream from Global Civil Society: India Genocide Warning
The world-renowned activist and intellectual offers his words of concern and solidarity for the persecuted minorities of India while touching on other issues of global importance.
A Scream from Global Civil Society: India Genocide Warning
Fifty-four renowned intellectuals, musicians, scholars, and activists from 24 countries will gather in a live YouTube public event which is billed “A Scream from Global Civil Society: India Genocide Warning!” View LIVE on Friday 4th February, 12:00PM - 5:00PM GMT/LONDON | 5:30PM - 10:30PM NEW DELHI | 07:00AM -12 NOON CANADA/US EASTERN.
An Islamic Perspective on the Sacred Balance of Humanity, Animals and Nature: An Overview of “Ecolibrium”
"Ecolibrium: The Sacred Balance in Islam" is a book that focuses on the plight of humanity, animals and nature. It seeks to address the causes of ecological, environmental and developmental degradation utilizing three groups of main sources: empirical evidence from nature and history, the Quran and authentic Hadith, and logical inferences.
ကိုလိုနီ စိတ်မှ လွတ်မြောက်ပြီး ဒီမိုကရေစီနည်းကျ အသိပညာပြန့်ပွားရေး၊ FORSEA ပညာရှင်များ စကားဝိုင်း
ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးစုနှင့် ၎င်းတို့သမိုင်းကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းတို့ကို ဂျင်န်နိုဆိုက် (genocide) လူမျိုးတုံးအမြစ်ဖြုတ်မှု အဖြစ်ရှုမြင်ခြင်းနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ ကမ္ဘာ့အဆင့်ပညာရှင်များ စကားဝိုင်းတစ်ရပ် ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သည်။
Post-Holocaust Genocides as a Single Clearest Indictment of the Criminal Failure of the United Nations & World Civilization
FORSEA’s new YouTube LIVE Dialogue series “Decolonizing Minds, Democratizing Knowledge” hosted its first episode, looking at Rohingya identity and history destruction by Myanmar as a real-world case.
The Violent Legacies in Myanmar of Colonial Knowledge and Area Studies
A major problem standing in the way of progress of what should be a joint front is that academics have clung to the myth that academics are observers, not participants, and that they should stand beyond politics. Unfortunately, in the Area Studies of the American and the British Academies, the 'discipline IS political'. Our disciplines have emerged from the colonial period as tools of empire and were preserved after the...