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Q&A: Global Ban Another Tool in the Fight Against FGM
For the estimated 140 million girls and women living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), it is already too late. But since a global ban on FGM was passed at the end of last year,...
View ArticleAsia Leaps Forward in Regional Economic Integration
As the United Nations continues to intensify the promotion of South-South cooperation among member states, Asia plans to take a great leap forward in regional economic integration during the next...
View ArticleGroups Decry Obama’s Failure to Close Guantanamo
Human rights groups are denouncing President Barack Obama’s failure to veto a defence bill that will make it far more difficult for him to fulfill his four-year-old pledge to close the Guantanamo...
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Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has found a deterrent to Islamic fundamentalists: they dress conservatively, sport short beards and Islamic caps and emulate the ways of...
View ArticlePaediatricians for a Healthy Environment
A group of Argentine paediatricians has been combining work on environmental protection and child health for more than 10 years. It appears a basic principle to apply, but the task is turning out to be...
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OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of Democracy
Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest...
View ArticleNew Feminism Tears Down Walls in Brazil
Anarkia Boladona has turned the streets of Brazil into billboards against domestic violence. As a self-titled feminist political graffiti artist, she represents a new trend in women’s rights that seeks...
View ArticleOP-ED: The Arab Spring at Two: What Lessons Should We Learn?
As the Arab Spring enters its third year, new Arab democracies and the international community should reflect on several critical lessons from the past two years. Thinking about these lessons and...
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Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to Hagel for Pentagon
With President Barack Obama reportedly primed to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon early next week, the powerful Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs...
View ArticleYemeni Women Struggle to Step Forward
Yemeni women have played an integral role in the protests against ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year regime last year. But despite the country’s upcoming political ‘National Dialogue’ – brokered...
View ArticleCubans See Internet as Crucial to Future Development
The Cuban government’s economic reforms must consider the myriad opportunities offered by the Internet, a key platform of the dominant economic model on the planet, according to interviews with both...
View ArticleWage Dumping Hits Switzerland
The Swiss parliament has decided to tackle wage dumping in the construction sector. With the introduction of chain liability, general contractors can soon be held accountable for labour agreement...
View ArticleObama Nominates Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
Rounding out his second-term foreign policy picks, U.S. President Barack Obama Monday nominated former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon and his top counter-terrorism adviser, John...
View ArticleHistoric Mapuche Land Conflict Flares Up
A string of attacks in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía, where native Mapuche people are struggling for their land rights, puts the spotlight squarely on what analysts call the “supine...
View ArticleExecutions Elicit Fears of Authoritarianism
Taiwanese activists and human rights advocates ushered in the New Year with promises to prevent “a return to authoritarianism” and bring justice to the families of prisoners who were executed just...
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Abandoning Nuclear Weapons – Lessons from South Africa
Not many nice things can be said about the apartheid regime in South Africa. It was racist, violent in the brutal oppression of many of its own citizens, and was despised around the world. However, in...
View ArticleA River Runs Dry in Tanzania
Avelina Elias Mkenda, a 52-year-old small-scale farmer in the Mbarali district of Tanzania’s southwestern Mbeya region, can sense a change in her environment. A resident of the Great Ruaha River basin,...
View ArticleNew Push for U.S. to Ratify Major Women’s Treaty
The United States continues to be in the dubious company of six countries that have either refused or are reluctant to ratify the landmark U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
View ArticleChina’s Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
Global demand for soybeans has soared in recent decades, with China leading the race. Nearly 60 percent of all soybeans entering international trade today go to China, making it far and away the...
View ArticleShowdown Looms Between Erdoğan and Gülen Movement
A tactical alliance in Turkey between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a movement headed by theologian Fetullah Gülen is unraveling. And the break-up is threatening to turn acrimonious. Tension...
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