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Published in: 50.50Women at the Public Service Broadcasting ForumLis 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...
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Published in: 50.50Is it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace?
On average, one dollar spent on programmes to prevent violent conflict achieves as much as sixty dollars spent...
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Published in: openEconomySaving philosophy from the suits
The long march of market mechanisms through Britain's cultural institutions has accelerated. Is there a...
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Published in: 50.50NPT conference: half time glass half full
Frustration at the failure of nuclear weapon states to honour the agreements made at previous NPT Conferences is...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentenceThe death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...
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Published in: 50.50Conscription: our bodies...or our money?
In recognising a right of conscientious objection specifically to military service, the international community of...
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Published in: 50.50Objecting: an act of civil disobedience
Conscientious objection is not "opting out". It is an effort to stimulate a new social imagination and a...
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Published in: 50.50Listening to our conscience
A new anthology of women conscientious objectors reveals the extent to which rejection to military service is part...
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Published in: 50.50United States at the NPT: how far will the 'good guy' go?
Unless the role and value assigned to nuclear weapons in deterrence is challenged among the nuclear-armed states,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAgainst power-mongering - moving on from the politics of 'winner-takes-all'
The longing for 'macho' style 'strong' politics is exposed by the UK's post-election arguments
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Published in: 50.50No release: lives in limbo
The UK is almost alone in Europe in detaining migrants indefinitely. The cost to the taxpayer does not come cheap....