From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

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From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 20, 2023 Over the past year human rights abuses in places ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and to Myanmar/Burma, Xinjiang China, the Middle East, to name a few sordid cases, have splashed across the headlines. Just in the past month, ethnic cleansing of Christian Armenians from Muslim […]

Was Covid really to blame for the deaths of two populist African leaders?

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Was Covid really to blame for the deaths of two populist African leaders?

Special to WorldTribune, March 31, 2021 Analysis by Eric Clary Part I: Tanzania’s Magufuli, 61: Downsized government, spurned China loans, defied LGBT lobby, March 24, 2021 Coronavirus allegations have clouded the deaths of at least two prominent African leaders. Most recently, popular Tanzanian populist John Magufuli allegedly succumbing to Covid-19 on March 17 this year. […]