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On 14 December, a 23 year-old Palestinian named Abu-Sakha was returning from his family home in Jenin to his work place near Ramallah. His taxi was stopped, he was asked to step out and he was taken to a detention centre, without charge. No-one knows what happened next because no-one has had contact with him …
More than 27 years have passed since the Soviet Union pulled its forces out of Afghanistan, ending a blood-soaked intervention that left one million Afghans and fifteen thousand Soviets dead. In Tajikistan, a country that shares not only a 1300-kilometre border, but close linguistic and cultural ties with Afghanistan, the memory of the war has …
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Flickr/Teymur Madjderey. Some rights reserved.The recognition of wartime rape as a fundamental violation of international law has been a hard-fought victory. Ending rape and other forms of sexual violence in war ought to be a central aspiration of the international community. But the struggle against rape has attained a kind of moral currency, put to …
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For the first time in 130 years, people ages 18-34 are more likely to live with their parents than in any other arrangement. But when the Pew Research Center released their findings that millennials were likely to bunk with Mom and Dad, the internet seemed surprised. Op-eds ranging from “Dear adults who mooch off parents: Grow up” …
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Poor Sean Spicer. The White House Press Secretary can’t even go out to the Apple Store without someone coming up to him to express a grievance with his boss, President Trump. But the real problem is that Spicer just can’t help himself—turning an awkward confrontation into something that reeks of implied racism and xenophobia. D.C.-area …
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March in Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain. Flickr. Some rights reserved. It is often thought that the contribution that companies can make to peace-building is limited to their economic capacity. Accordingly, efforts to find out how they can link to peace initiatives tend to focus on their financial contribution to cover the costs of post-conflict, developing …
In the midst of the current Brazilian political crisis, we ask how the margins can acquire a new centrality in crafting future alternatives in a moment where existing economic and democratic models seem to be failing us. This latest episode of Talk Real, shot in São Paulo in March 2016, saw the participation of Giuseppe …
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The cable car is pulling hard, and at an angle of 45 degrees makes the last leg of the journey between ‘la Hoyada’, the popular name for La Paz, and El Alto, the rebel Aymara city that during three decades has constructed an identity by means of colorful buildings and a heavy population and commercial …
Billy Bean is devoted to to baseball. For nearly 10 years, Bean played outfielder for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padres, and in 1999 he became the second Major League Baseball player to come out of the closet, and the first to do so publicly, in an interview with the Miami Herald. In 2014, Bean returned …
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Aerial view of Cizre and Tigris, Turkey. Wikicommons/Rahman Abubakr. Some rights rserved.Everything is happening before our very eyes! The Kurdish cities of Turkey have been under an unlawful siege and curfew for months. Today, it has been 49 days for Cizre and 61 days for Diyarbakir-Surici since the curfew was declared. People suffer from lack …
