News of states rights

Woke no joke

08-02-2025 06:55 “Woke” has become a pejorative for anything the new right considers excessively progressive, but too few people here seem to have any precise idea what it means.

TRUMP IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN

Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed

26-01-2025 09:29 Brazil's Foreign Ministry said it would demand an explanation from Washington over the "degrading treatment of passengers" on a flight deporting dozens of immigrants from United States.

JIMMY CARTER (1924-2024)

A good man who lived a good life

04-01-2025 06:26 Before Jimmy Carter, the US State Department would only protect its own citizens if they fell foul of a foreign dictator. But under him, thousands of lives were saved by US diplomacy.

by Robert Cox

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Death be not proud

02-01-2025 18:10 Jimmy Carter and Jorge Lanata contrasted in many ways, the one profoundly humanitarian, the other deeply human.

by Michael Soltys

Women's Rights

Organised backlash unravels progress in women's rights

08-03-2024 06:10 Conservative counter-campaigns are unravelling global advances in women's rights, the latest "backlash" in a series dating to the 1980s, activists and experts warned ahead of International Women's Day on Friday.

HUMAN RIGHTS

How Kissinger gave the junta tacit approval for abuses

30-11-2023 16:53 The death of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has put his dictatorship-era policy towards Argentina in the spotlight once again.

IN FOCUS

At 100, Henry Kissinger basks in US praise with no accountability

26-05-2023 09:13 Henry Kissinger, who turns 100 on Saturday, shaped US foreign policy like few others, with a long – and highly controversial – record.

HUMAN RIGHTS

US report criticises Argentina’s ‘ineffective’ judicial system

21-03-2023 12:59 New US State Department report on rights situation in Argentina last year highlights “numerous cases of corruption,” and says that President Alberto Fernández’s government took only “limited steps” to fully investigate abuses.