Republicans are friends of India and Democrats are friends of Pakistan, is the conventional wisdom in India. It seems that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington will be Singh's attempt to understand to what degree this conventional wisdom still holds.

America and India share a widespread...

This wednesday (November 25th), Oxfam met with UN Security Council Ambassadors to present over 6500 signatures from concerned citizens in more than 130 countries, all demanding an end to UN's disastrous support for the Congolese army's military offensive aimed at disarming the rebel group FDLR.

The conclusions from...

The sun hasn't come out all day and a downpour constantly forces us to duck into some doorway or stay at home. One might think that in a tropical country life is organized taking the climate into account, and that along with our...

The Guardian sums up the second day of the official Chilcott inquiry into the origins of the Iraq War.  Hm, why can't we have one of those?  Oh, that's right, we move forward.  Anyway, some juicy revelations that casts even more of a cloud on Bush administration assertions that...

This post was co-authored with Enough's Laura Heaton.

We've gotten word that, after an eventful trip to eastern Congo in June and many months in production the all-new segment CONGO GOLD will air on CBS's 60 Minutes this Sunday, November 29. I had the chance to travel to war-torn region...

Fifteen years ago, two countries that had witnessed the most horrible genocides in the last decade of the 20th century ended their wars: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Rwanda. Through my work with Women for Women International, I have been working in and visiting these countries for years. This year, I...

On November 29, national elections will take place in Honduras. Five months earlier, on June 28th, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was arrested in the middle of the night by the armed forces and forcibly exiled to Costa Rica -- on the day he had proposed to hold a non-binding public...

Recent press reports suggest that President Obama is likely to try to sugarcoat his announcement next week of a major military escalation in Afghanistan with talk of "exit ramps": opportunities in the future to evaluate and possibly reduce the U.S. military commitment. That's supposed to make opponents of military...

I was asked to sit on a panel at the Texas Women's Conference hosted by the first lady Ms. Perry. The topic of discussion was Second Chances and New Beginnings. The audience was large, about 800 women, and they seemed engaged. I found myself speaking from personal experiences about what...

Maajid Nawaz is a British citizen of Pakistani descent who became involved in
his youth with the radical Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami),
undertaking missions for the party in Pakistan and Egypt. Hizb al-Tahrir is an
international movement that campaigns for the reestablishment...

It's a measure of the change in the discourse that David Bromwich, Yale's Sterling Professor of English who used to write op-ed in the New York Times, now keeps a sort of Times Watch in the Huffington Post, the New York Review of Books, and the London...

A recent posting on this blog remarked on the need for greater civil society involvement and for them to use their voice to make demands.  So it’s promising to see that the message has been heard. For the first time ever, the activist voice of civil society was present...

At a time when Judaeophobia -- a more accurate term than anti-Semitism in the context of Israeli-Arab or Jewish-Muslim relations -- is on a stark upswing in the Arab street, it is important for us to pay tribute to the efforts of the handful of Jewish and Muslim leaders who...

Dear Secretary Clinton,

As advocates for women's health and human rights, we write to request your support on a matter of utmost importance for Indian women. We hope that this week when you meet with the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, you underscore the dire state of...

Admittedly, we have so many more important things on our minds, but the Brits -- backward-looking sort, don't you think? -- have just opened an official inquiry into how that country got into the Iraq War.

Here, of course, where the word "history" is a synonym for "toast", the idea...

Foreign policy realists sometimes ask how much seemingly marginal states such as Sudan really matter. The answer is that Sudan matters for many reasons, none more important than the millions dead and displaced due to decades of unnecessary internal violence. Sudan matters now more than ever because two seminal events...

While President Obama approaches a decision on America's war strategy in Afghanistan, across the border in Pakistan an equally important battle rages against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Just last week a suicide bomber in Peshawar, a Pakistan city near the Afghan border, blew himself up outside of a...