The depths of Finnish hypocrisy continue to find new records with President Alexander Stubb. Finland entered uncharted waters a week ago after the pushback law was passed, which compromised the country’s human rights, the Constitution, and international agreements. The president’s hubris and anti-Russian sentiment were exposed for everyone to witness when he said that the pushback law…
Human Rights in Finland should be our struggle’s clarion call
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” Nelson Mandela The passage on Friday of the pushback law with the support of the Social Democrats, demonstrates that we have entered uncharted waters. We should not be naive to think that the shelving of human rights, undermining our constitution, and turning our…
Aleksanterinliitto:* Turvallisuus poliittisten päämäärien verhona – perhe ja ystävät jäävät rajan taakse
Muistan taannoin lukeneeni Voima-lehden pääkirjoituksessa Maslow’n tarvehierarkiasta. Tämä hierarkia tulee usein mieleen, kun seuraan nykyistä Suomen politiikkaa. Lyhyesti tarvehierarkian ensimmäisellä tasolla on fyysiset tarpeet ja seuraavalla turvallisuus. Ja mitä kaikkea turvallisuuden nimessä tehdäänkään nyt, ehkä kiitos siitä että suomalaiset ovat myös varsin turvallisuushakuisia. Maailmassa on paljon ylikierroksilla käyviä asioita ja monta konfliktia: Gazan ja Ukrainan…
12 July 2024 was Finland’s day of infamy for Human Rights and the rule of law
Finland’s controversial pushback law received in parliament the needed two-thirds majority to turn away people seeking asylum at the border. One hundred sixty-seven MPs voted for the law while 31 voted against it. Critics of the law argue that it conflicts with the Constitution, Human Rights, and international agreements signed by Finland with the United…
The pushback law will be remembered as a day of infamy for Human Rights in Finland
Finland’s parliament will vote today for the pushback law law that should b seen as another nail in the coffin of Finland’s experiment in being a more open country based on Human Rights. After Finland became an EU member in 1995, many monumental legal changes changes were made, like the drafting of the new constitution…
Left Alliance offers an option to the government’s austerity, anti-environmental and xenophobic policies
The government of National Coalition Party (NCP) Prime Minister Petteri Orpo looks like after a year like a wrecking ball of Finland’s social welfare state. We have already seen how his government actions have undermined the labor market, social welfare, and emboldened hostile migration policy. The next big step is the government’s plans to pass…
MEP Henna Virkkunen: A future EU commissioner of Finland who would care less for the fate of those crossing into the EU
National Coalition Party MEP Henna Virkkunen is hoping to become an EU commissioner. However, there is a question: Is a person qualified if he or she would care less or very little if people die when coming to Europe? In the 2019 MEP election, she responded in the Alma Meter election compass in the affirmative…
The elephant in the room that shows us the way to Hungary, and wishful political thinking in Finland
How can the government be so worried about “national security” if you are ready to trash our most sacred rights like Human Rights, the Constitution, and international agreements? The Draft Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration, or the so-called pushback law, is not only concerning how the constitutional committee can sidestep our most sacred values…
Finland’s Interior Minister Mari Rantanen gets hammered on A-studio
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* and Interior Minister Mari Rantanen got bitten hard by her own and some of the party’s racist statements on A-studio by host Marja Sannikka. Rantanen’s ignorance and loathing of migrants, especially Muslims and people of color, shines through as usual. The PS is the first modern party in Finland to capitalize on…
Tales from Europe: From stowaway to advocate: Sheku Amadu Jalloh’s story of activism in Denmark
In November 1990, Sheku Amadu Jalloh arrived in Denmark from Sierra Leone as a stowaway, escaping the political turmoil of his homeland. Over three decades later, the stowaway, Jalloh who has studied journalism at the University of Liberia with a three-month training program in the USA, is a Danish citizen and a dedicated employee at…