Bonded labor is an endemic plague that constraints 3,5‒4 million people to work in inhuman conditions. The government has not been able (or willing) to solve the problem.
Marco Respinti
Two Covenants or One? The Unity of Human Rights and the Tai Ji Men Case
Should the United Nations Two Covenants be merged into one? Taiwan may offer a unique contribution to this debate by solving the Tai Ji Men case.
Documenting the Horror. 4. Time for Revising the “Convention on Genocide”?
A re-calibration of its language, in the full spirit of Raphael Lemkin, can meet recent developments in the heinous practice of genocides.
Xi Jinping’s Space Program: “To See Him Fly, So Many Die.”
Two poignant verses from rocker Ronnie James Dio’s masterpiece “Stargazer” offer a comment to the failure of a recent Chinese launch of communication satellites.
Documenting the Horror. 3. Cultural Genocides
The planned, organized, and systematic suppression of distinctive cultures aims at annihilating human groups for what makes them what they are. One perpetrator is the People’s Republic of China.
The CCP’s Weaponization of Geographical Maps
A new report documents the manipulation of borders by the CCP’s cartography. Its first victims are human beings, not geography only.
Documenting the Horror. 2. Of Genocides and Culture
The UN “Convention on Genocide” excludes cultural destruction as a marker for genocide, to avoid a vague use of the term “culture.” But culture is not a fuzzy concept. It identifies peoples.
Documenting the Horror. 1. A Valuable Report on the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide
Testimonies collected on the ground by the European Bangladesh Forum confirm scholarly studies, calling on the international community, and by extension the UN, to recognize an overlooked truth.
The Caliph of Ahmadi Muslims Has No Magic Solution for Peace—But He Has Some Wise Ideas
At the 2024 National Peace Symposium in London, he said that religion is not the cause of war, but the solution.
“Bitter Winter” Premieres Mark Tarrant’s New Short Film on Jimmy Lai
Watch here the 10-minute movie “Jimmy Lai – Guilty of Innocence.” It will ask you whose side you are on: of the innocent victims or their brutal tormentors?
Marco Respinti
Marco Respinti is an Italian professional journalist, member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), author, translator, and lecturer. He has contributed and contributes to several journals and magazines both in print and online, both in Italy and abroad. Author of books and chapter in books, he has translated and/or edited works by, among others, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Régine Pernoud and Gustave Thibon. A Senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (a non-partisan, non-profit U.S. educational organization based in Mecosta, Michigan), he is also a founding member as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for European Renewal (a non-profit, non-partisan pan-European educational organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands). A member of the Advisory Council of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, in December 2022, the Universal Peace Federation bestowed on him, among others, the title of Ambassador of Peace. From February 2018 to December 2022, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Family News. He serves as Director-in-Charge of the academic publication The Journal of CESNUR and Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights.