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Published in:Home: OpinionCOVID-19 is a bigger threat than war. So why isn’t it funded the same?With rising mutations, catastrophe looms unless powerful states stop being so inward-looking and cooperate to...
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: AnalysisVoter suppression Lib Dem style in the Chesham and Amersham by-electionTactical voting played its part in the victory too – but can the Lib Dems rely on these tricks in future?
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Published in:oDR: FeatureArmenia goes to the polls – and its future hangs in the balanceIn the shadow of last year’s war with Azerbaijan and the return of the country’s old guard, it’s a decisive weekend...
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Lib Dem victory in Chesham and Amersham is a disaster for StarmerIf Ed Davey’s party can so easily knock a dent in the blue wall, then why can’t Labour?
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: OpinionIs the DUP trying to bring down power-sharing in Northern Ireland?The hardline Unionist party has never liked working with Nationalists. Does it want to end the Good Friday Agreement...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s healthcare system, like its politics, neglects the poorest in societyRecruiting patients from disadvantaged areas to regulate services would put power into the hands of ordinary people...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhy it’s important to see displaced people as more than just ‘refugees’Whether to evoke sympathy or stigma, the ways that Syrians in Lebanon are represented help compound exclusion and...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWho decides Iran’s presidential elections?On Friday, Iranians will go to the polls to vote for the new president. But the will of the people is not the only...
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsReport says soldiers shot three dead at Myanmar factory making US cowboy bootsA labour rights organisation says the soldiers also arrested 17 outside the shoe factory – for asking for wages
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Published in: 50.50: NewsFeminist groups demand action to ‘stop anti-rights infiltration’ at the UNGlobal organisations call on UN agencies to ‘stop access to decision-making’ for opponents of women’s and LGBT...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionNorway, we need to talk about racismAttacks on a politician and a new book marking the tenth anniversary of the Utøya massacre have finally led to a...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRevealed: the UK’s business links to Nagorno-KarabakhDuring last year's war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the UK government supported opening up the disputed territory...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionMaya Forstater’s views on trans people shouldn’t have been ruled a beliefThe principles that underpin equality law were intended to protect people from being targeted for their faith. This...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureTurkish spies are abducting Erdogan’s political opponents abroadEmboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents
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Published in: oDR: FeatureCredit trap: debt and dispossession in Central AsiaSince the collapse of the USSR, credit has slowly taken hold as the only way to make ends meet in Kazakhstan and...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKazakhstan is caught in a vicious cycle of debt. The pandemic has only made it worseA culture of credit was nurtured for years in the Central Asian state, but now many left jobless by the pandemic...
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Published in: Pandemic Borders: AnalysisFor migrants in Canada, who bears the cost of home ownership?Buying property can be an expression of belonging, but the nature of the housing market makes it an unequal process
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationConcerns raised over ‘dark money’ funding anti-lockdown MPsTory MP Steve Baker's Covid Recovery Group has received £10,000 in donations from an unregistered association....
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Published in: oDR: OpinionOpen letter: we need a new university for eastern EuropeWith the climate of repression reaching fever pitch in Belarus and Russia, European institutions need to support new...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Media spectacleWas 9/11 the first time you became aware of the impact of media spectacle on our lives?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTurkey is reportedly depriving hundreds of thousands of people of waterThe nation has been accused of breaking its agreement to ensure a flow of 500 cubic metres per second of the...
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Published in: Rethinking Populism: OpinionThe systemic metamorphosis of Greece’s once radical left-wing SYRIZA partySYRIZA is not the same party that rose to power in 2015 – is this the end of its populist adventure?
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– by anthonywharris on: Voter suppression Lib Dem style in the Chesham and Amersham by-election
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» "Starmer has already secured the wrath of much of his membership. He appears to have run to the Left in the leadership election, then side-stepped to the Right"Exactly what...
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