How many Children have to die?
The exact number of Yemeni children killed by Saudi bombing and malnutrition caused by the war has yet to be officially determined, but the number is certainly in the thousands. Overall the fighting and its consequences are said to have taken the lives of 50,000 Yemeni children in 2017, with 130 children dying each day, according to Save the Children. More...
Talking about Peace
One thing seems clear after over three years of an unwinnable war in Yemen that has created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world: it is past time to find a way out for all sides. The UN envoy Martin Griffiths More...
Socotra and Little Sparta
While the war on the Yemeni mainland drags on with daily deaths from violence inflicted from all sides and a largely ignored humanitarian crisis, there is a new twist in the overall dreadful scenario. The island More...
It takes a liar…
There is a saying, and a song by the American rock group “Taking Back Sunday”, that it takes a liar to know a liar. In the case of Oliver North, the newly elected president of the National Rifle Association More...
Till moderater inför debatten 17 maj: Utvisa inte ungdomar på grund av rättsosäkra åldersbedömningar!
Följande brev har av medlemmar i nätverket Stoppa utvisningarna av afghanska ungdomar! skickat till alla moderata riksdagsledmöter: “Jag skriver till dig som moderat riksdagsledamot. Din partikollega Finn More...
Meanwhile in Yemen…
The episode in early April of a poison gas attack in Douma, a city near Damascus, that led to a measured missile attack by the U.S., Britain and France, has understandably been the focus of media attention for the More...
Isolating Qatar
On June 5, 2016 Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain began a boycott of its Gulf neighbor Qatar, the richest country in the world, cutting off land and air travel over their space. No doubt the same countries that More...
No Alibi for Tit for Tat
The Saudi-led bombing campaign of Yemen has entered its fourth year with no end in sight. The humanitarian crisis created by the bombing runs is one of the worst in the world, so bad that the UN has just asked donors More...
Riksdagsledamot: Ska du rösta ja eller nej?
Två viktiga omröstningar väntar dig som riksdagsledamot: Amnesti för ensamkommande flyktingungdomar den 28 mars och den nya gymnasielagen något senare. Det är framför allt de ca 12 000 utvisningshotade afghanska More...
Washington, Jefferson, Trump, Bin Salman
The Saudi Crown Prince and de facto owner-in-chief of the kingdom’s vast oil wealth and investments visited President Trump at the White House on Tuesday, but he was not alone. Looking down from portraits on the More...