Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last communist leader of Poland, is due to be given a full state funeral today. However the debate over his controversial legacy will continue long after his death.

If the Scottish independence referendum is close, it will swing on the voters too long ignored. That prospect alone could change Scotland.

Podemos has presented itself as a party of "decent ordinary people”, who understand the needs of ordinary citizens and are open to taking their lead from them through the participatory process (as opposed to positioning themselves as the intellectual vanguard). 

For two decades after the Cold War, observers of European democracy talked of the end of Left-Right politics. This week’s Euro-Parliamentary election results are one piece of evidence to suggest something different has occurred.

Clarion calls on social media for action in Africa have once again become an excuse to flex military muscle, as the rhetoric of 'humanitarian' interventions is increasingly outfitted with the tactics of the war on terror.

How do Salafi and Salafi-Jihadi groups in Syria use education and flags to foster supportive identities among school students in liberated areas’? These play a significant role in drawing the line between ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Syrian society.

The Russian economy is perhaps already in recession, certainly in decline. This could be contagious because a slowdown in Russia will also slow down its neighbours.

Elections have exposed the fragility of Sisi’s rule and sent up warning signs of the dangerous path that will be pursued. Votes are being counted, and declaring Sisi the winner is just a formality. However, a tainted legitimacy will haunt him. 

More than five months have passed since the kidnap of activists Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hammadeh, Samira Khalil and Nazem Hammadi, who are a reminder that the Syrian revolution is up against more than the Assad regime.

The world is watching as Brazil prepares for the World Cup and Olympics. As Northern funding for Brazilian human rights groups declines, local groups must take advantage of this moment, and new philanthropic trends, to develop new sources of financial support. A Brazilian contribution to the openGlobalRights debate, “funding for human rights.” Português

Although the majority of Copts are perceived as supporters of Sisi and many do see him as a saviour from the Islamists, time may reveal that Sisi does not have their striving for equality or their attainment of full rights as first degree citizens at heart.

The global financial elite has ignored the radical lessons of the post-2007 crisis. But these are needed more than ever. 

It is a historic moment, a kind of closing of a circle that 110 years after one Pope answered Theodor Herzl “non possumus” to a request for Vatican support, another Pope has chosen to visit and place a wreath on Herzl’s tomb in Jerusalem.

There are historic and cultural reasons for differences in attitudes in Scotland and England. As English politics rushes off after UKIP, why would Scotland want to stay in a union with them?

The argument that economic development should precede human rights is tired and dangerous, though often seen. It will only be a matter of time until this becomes clear (again) in Egypt – but  how much time will that take, with how much repression suffered beforehand?

We must take seriously all the new parties in the European Parliament, not least because they might well be doing us a favour.

It is time to stop name calling and try to reach a better understanding of people's attitudes to belonging, home, territory and migration.

Cedant arma togae (Let arms yield to the toga!) is written in the epigraph to the Project. It took nearly three centuries to materialize, and in June 1979, the first European Parliament elected directly by the citizens was implemented.

Events in Ukraine have both highlighted and influenced Abkhazia’s political divisions, as yesterday’s protests clearly demonstrate.

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