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Published in: 50.50Politics vs Delivery: the G8’s maternal health agendaG20 countries are asking why rich nations should continue to direct the form and substance of development programmes...
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Published in: openEconomyIt's up to You - the economics of openDemocracy
Yes, great, independent content costs and if the readers don't pay for it who will? Why you should want...
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Published in: 50.50A platform for humanity - The UK's Bath experiment
Positive peace is more than the absence of war. Groups campaigning to advance the causes that are vital to building...
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Published in: HomeToward a new Alexandria
The guardians of learning can no longer allow the Library to be surrounded with barbed-wire fences. It is time for...
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Published in: 50.50Dangerous liaisons
We cannot afford the direct or indirect legitimisation of extremist religious forces especially by organisations...
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Published in: HomeOptimism, pessimism and rationality
In a review essay of Matt Ridley's "The rational optimist" and Mark Boyle's "The moneyless man", scavenger and...
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Published in: 50.50"They don't speak English": language, migration and cohesion
Transforming the mechanisms and means to enable an acquisition of English is urgently required. Language is the life...
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Published in: 50.5050.50 – equal but different: a reply to Ruth Rosen
Something challenging and refreshing has begun to emerge in some serious publications. Women are claiming an equal...
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Published in: 50.50Different pasts, shared future
Note to self: Make sure you know the meaning of the past before you set about cleaning the windows of the future!...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist revolution: population, migration and consumption
The poor women of the world are defusing the population time-bomb themselves so let’s stop talking about...
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Published in: 50.50Women at the Public Service Broadcasting Forum
Lis Howell reflects on gender balance at the recent Public Service Broadcasting Forum
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Published in: 50.50NPT: challenging the nuclear powers' fiefdom
The NPT Review provided a bridge between the partial non-proliferation approach of the NPT and the comprehensive...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: development on the move
Migration is an unstoppable fact of life in the 21st century and should be based on a sound understanding of...
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Published in: oDRTurkmenbashi is dead! Long live Turkmenbashi?A recently published book about President Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan confirms that the cult of personality is...
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Published in: 50.50A rose and a duck: labelling religious fundamentalisms
When it comes to religious fundamentalisms women's rights activists say Shakespeare was wrong: the way we name...
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Published in: 50.50Sterilized: against our will
"Unfortunately there was one sterilization form that I was not aware of and I had already signed it." HIV positive...
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Published in: oDRChildren in prison
The approach to juvenile lawbreakers in Russia and in England & Wales is more punitive than in other European...
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Published in: 50.50NPT: the gulf between the nuclear haves and have-nots
The key question as the conference enters the endgame is whether the P-5 nuclear weapon states are willing to drop...
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Published in: 50.50Amnesty: working against oblivion?
Human rights groups cannot tell the story of the times in which we live. There is a void, where there should be...
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Published in: 50.50UK election outcome: lessons for peacebuilding
Inclusive democracy is a key constituent of positive peace. Does the surprise coalition government in Britain have...