Moroccan authorities in Laayoune airport denied entry to Polisario official, M’Hamed Salem Hamda Birouk, who serves as an “ambassador” of the separatist group in Argentina. The Polisario official, who was intending to visit his family in Laayoune, was denied access to the city and spent Monday night in the airport. He had to return back, […]
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Islamic law and human rights: do they mix? (part I)
There is an ideological dichotomy between international human rights law and Islamic law, which may explain the numerous human rights abuses in the Muslim world. On August 19, the faculty of law of Buenos Aires University presented the first international code of human rights published by Thomson Reuters. It gathers all the rights, declarations and […]
Hope For The Best: Argentines Wake Up In Default
The mood is defiant in the streets of Buenos Aires after Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service declared today Argentina in default on some bonds for the eighth time in its history. This follows Standard & Poor’s Ratings’ Services cutting its credit rating on the the South American nation’s foreign-currency sovereign debt to “selective […]


