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In the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, there was a theological debate on slavery and slave trading. Is slavery and slave trading morally legitimate? At the heart of the debate were the Voetians and the Cocceains. The Voetians argued that the Biblical verse...

Mayors from around the world had the possibility to promote their vision of global governance over housing at a special session on the right to adequate housing held on the fringes of a major United Nations (UN) event on sustainable development. In their visio...

Hong Kong can be considered a typical global city. It is an economic centre where flows of goods, services, and people converge, and thus where different ideas and worldviews exist as well. When looking at Hong Kong’s local legislation, the norms of internatio...

In Lviv, Ukraine, previously called Lwów under Polish rule until 1939, or Lemberg under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, stood at least 44 synagogues. Only two have survived the Second World War. One owes its survival to a life as a stable under the Nazis; its rec...

In an early article, Alvin Thompson argues that the major prejudices that Europeans in the Americas held against blacks/Africans originated prior to 1600, so that when the transatlantic slave trade expanded, ‘there was already a solid body of prejudicial liter...