A 49-year old Australian quadriplegic who was on a ventilator and a feeding tube recently died shortly after winning his legal fight to refuse treatment and food. He said he was in constant pain, his life had become a living hell and he wanted the right to refuse food meaning not have the feeding tube…

The Will to Intervene Project at the Montreal Institute and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University has issued a report which asks the world to find a way to intervene before genocides like the ones in Rwanda and Darfur occur. The report suggests that when one considers the dangers and risks, whether from pandemics, from…

Bernard Kouchner, the French minister for Foreign and European affairs, has proposed to tax certain financial transactions to raise money to better help African countries. It’s a modest sum, something like 5 euros for a 1000 euros transaction, or 0.005%, but according to him it could generate $44 billion and would go a long way…