Dyala Badran

Lebanese blogger

When we talk about labor rights, and complain about being underpaid and overworked, we come right home to someone who is feeling the exact same way -- except they don't get to go home. For the housekeepers, home is work and work is home. Round the clock.

Bernard-Henri Lévy

French philosopher and writer

What was the image that crossed the mind of that Muslim president who was doing his utmost to save his people from a bloodbath announced by the Serbs? "We are the Warsaw ghetto," he wrote, "Will the Warsaw ghetto once again be left to die?"

Lori Wallach

Director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch

With court systems and property rights laws that rank among the strongest in the world, one cannot possibly argue that it is necessary for the EU and United States to allow foreign corporations to skirt domestic legal systems in order to attract their investment.

Innokenty (Kes) Grekov

Program Associate, Human Rights First's Fighting Discrimination

"Hooliganism" is a leftover from Soviet jurisprudence; it's a criminal code article used to classify an extremely wide and ambiguously defined set of disruptive behaviors. What we need is clarity, and -- in the absence of rule of law and pervasive "legal nihilism" -- only Vladimir Putin can provide that.

Norman Solomon

Author, 'War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death'

Cancelation of the passport wasn't just an effort to prevent the whistleblower from getting to a country that might grant political asylum. It was also a declaration that the U.S. government can nullify the right to travel just as surely as it can nullify the right to privacy.

Ronak D. Desai

Non-Resident Fellow, the Belfer Center's India and South Asia Program, Harvard University

As President Obama and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif meet in Washington today, American officials have struck a positive tone ahead of their talks.

JoAnn Kamuf

Associate Director, Human Rights in the U.S. Project at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute

The ICCPR review is one of the rare opportunities where the U.S. discusses its human rights record and can be held accountable for its international commitments. Postponing the review has negative repercussions both domestically and internationally.

Dokhi Fassihian

International human rights expert.

The international community has the responsibility to elevate the human rights portfolio on par with other issues, and to induce Iran's cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council and its appointed mandate holder.

Ivan Eland

Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Obsolete and entangling alliances have indeed kept the United States "in" these regions with a significant military presence long after the Cold War ended.

William Bradley

Political Analyst

Anything but stable Libya, flooded with weapons and still without a constitution, with remarkably little progress since the fighting ended, may be on the verge of civil war.

Joanna Zelman

Front page editor, The Huffington Post

The music started again -da dah- he stepped forward and I stepped back -dah da dah. We were stumbling and tripping along the way but there were fleeting moments when we were flying. After the song ended, he asked, "It's magical, yes?"

Eight by Eight

The magazine the beautiful game deserves

Barcelona's breathtaking football made Guardiola the most coveted coach in European football, so why did he chose Bayern rather than a club in the English Premier League?

Evelyn Leopold

Veteran journalist reporting from the United Nations

We may never know why Riyadh made the unprecedented decision when it did. But it is clear the government hung its hard-working U.N. delegation out to dry.

Winnie Byanyima

Executive Director, Oxfam International

For a continent so rich in natural resources, how is it that many of Africa's countries fall among the lowest in global rankings of economic growth, despite exports of minerals, oil and gas from Africa worth roughly seven times the value of international aid to the continent?

PEN American Center

Global literary community protecting free expression and celebrating literature

Decisions about self-censorship today are increasingly an international problem that affects writers around the world.

Haggai Carmon

International Attorney, Author and Columnist

Did Turkey give Iran the names of Israeli Mossad agents allegedly operating in Turkey? If true -- and the public is unlikely to find out any time soon -- then Turkey breached one of fundamental unwritten rules of ethics in the lawless no-rules game of espionage.

Stephen Schlesinger

Author and Fellow at the Century Foundation

Yoani Sanchez, the 38-year-old blogger from Cuba, received her long-delayed Maria Moors Cabot Award from Columbia University last night. A spirited, forthright individual, she has pushed a crusade forward to pry open the limits of freedom in her home country.