Still from Bashu, Little Stranger (dir. Bahram Beizai, 1986-9 [exact date unclear], released 1991). Screening in London as part of a War in Iranian Cinema season. Click here for more
The now defunct UN Human Rights Commission had few friends by the end. Its critics complained of an extreme politicisation that made it highly selective about the issues it addressed.
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We are launching an online renga - a collective storytelling exercise inspired by a traditional Japanese poetic form - to explore issues of gender and power.
Today, the ICC ruled that Thomas Lubanga, notorious child soldier-enlister, would be the first suspect to stand trial for his role in the Congolese civil war. From Kinshasha to Freetown,
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"What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way"
by Nick Cohen
Fourth Estate | January 2007 | ISBN 0007229690
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Welcome to openDemocracy's third weekly poDcast.
This week we cross the globe to hear from writers at the World Social Forum in Nairobi and the World Economic Forum
Soccer Players, 1961, Matija Skurjeni, a Croatian artist of the "naïve" tradition.
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"Wizard of the Crow"
by Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
Pantheon (US) / Harvil Secker (UK) | August 2006 | ISBN 1846550343
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The poor of the developing world and the middle classes of the developed world seem unlikely allies. But, according to economist Branko Milanovic - whose main field of interest is
Welcome to the second of openDemocracy's new weekly poDcasts. Hear our writers and contributors expand on their articles with topical debate on current affairs, science, technology, arts and
A factory near the atomic bomb hypocenter, Nagasaki, Shomei Tomatsu, 1961. From the exhibition Skin of the Nation.
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"Globalization Challenged"
by George Rupp
Columbia University Press | November 2006 | ISBN 0231139306
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