Stephen McCloskey is Director of the Centre for Global Education, editor of Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, co-editor of From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies (Pluto Press, 2015), and manages education projects in the Gaza Strip.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThree ways to stop the global economic system working for only rich white menWomen’s unpaid work is worth $10 trillion annually. Amazon's Jeff Bezos’s personal wealth dwarves the health budget of most countries. These facts are linked – and a new report from Oxfam suggests answers.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPalestine’s forgotten refugees in LebanonMassive cuts by the Trump administration to the budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency will exacerbate an already marginal existence for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGaza’s “Great March of Return”: an international rallying call for peace and justiceReduced to refugee status 70 years ago, subjected to three wars since 2008 and an eleven-year economic siege, Israel now denies Palestinians the right to protest.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTrump has dropped any pretence of the US as an ‘honest broker’ in the Middle-EastSupport for BDS is now more important than ever.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWestern complicity is fuelling Yemen’s humanitarian crisisA besieged and starved population has been pushed to the brink of famine. The UK, US and France need to re-evaluate their relationship with Saudi Arabia.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGaza: ten years of economic blockadeSupporting BDS will hasten an end to the siege on Gaza and help lance a running sore in the Middle East and international relations. It deserves your support.