The most ironic objection by the pro-Duterte groups regarding the incarceration of the former president is that this is a violation of his human rights. I call this “ironic” because Duterte has issued ...

The Texas Senate passed a bill prescribing public elementary and secondary schools display a durable poster or framed copy of ...

The Texas Senate passed a bill Wednesday prescribing public elementary and secondary schools display a durable poster or ...

El Argar had a centralized system for the production and distribution of its pottery vessels and clay objects, all made from material sourced from a single location ...

Human rights are rooted in the ancient ideas of civility, equality and justice. The term is used frequently, but less often ...

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.”   - Bob Marley, Jamaican composer and Reggae ...

Corruption in Pakistan has metastasised beyond mere governance flaws; it has infiltrated every fabric of the state, ...

The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

Tax Reforms in England (16th–17th Century): Tudor and Stuart monarchs intensified taxation through the enactment of excise taxes and customs duties. The Bill of Rights (1689) established legislative ...

From Mesopotamia’s Code of Hammurabi and Roman Emperor Diocletian’s Edict on Maximum Prices to President Richard Nixon’s wage and price controls, these policies follow the same pattern ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

Hammurabi’s laws focused on the relations between the palatial sector and the family-based economy on the land, which followed its own common law tradition for wergild-like personal offenses and ...