Migration and Ethnic Relations

Self-Determination Saga

24 May 2012

The discourse on self-determination originated from Mesopotamia and Greek city states in the manifestation of radiant light of democratic ideal. The growth of self-determination holds its genesis in ancient political thought to its evolution as human rights in modern times. It has acquaintances with people’s privilege, right to self-determination, state sovereignty and territorial integrity ...

Southerners Stranded in Sudan Waiting for a Trip Home

22 May 2012

Nimuli struggled to rise from a rope bed to greet pastor James Mading Bui at an Episcopal church where she lives in a suburb of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, waiting to travel back home to the newly independent south.

China hits LDP over Uighur event

18 May 2012

More than 100 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers have received letters of protest from Chinese Ambassador Cheng Yonghua over the holding of the World Uyghur Congress in Tokyo, an intraparty LDP group said Friday. LDP Diet member Keiji Furuya, head of a group of LDP lawmakers who support China's Uighur ethnic minority, told reporters the letters represented excessive interference in the nation's ...