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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: Home: OpinionWhy the Isis hit on Boko Haram leader is a warning shot to global securityThe terror group accelerates as it becomes clear that leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban’s control could backfire on the West
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEU stands firm with Big Pharma against COVID vaccine patent waiversNew research reveals how Brussels puts companies’ profits ahead of millions of people’s lives worldwide
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Published in: Home: OpinionCracks in the Middle East’s stability grow wider as US influence wanesWith the region experiencing social unrest, greater influence of Russia and China, and Israel’s increasing...
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsWhy is a company accused of looting diamonds back in Zimbabwe’s mines?A Chinese-Zimbabwean military venture has been handed one of the country’s most lucrative diamond-producing blocks,...
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Published in: Home: OpinionNew stage of remote warfare further diminishes military accountabilityThousands of boots on the ground have been replaced by multiple deployments of smart bombs that stay under the radar...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionUganda’s sexual offences law is a bitter lesson for the women’s movementWhy did women MPs support a new law that entrenches oppression?
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionCan worsening economies and increasing repression herald a new Arab Spring?North Africa today is reminiscent of the period leading up to the 2011 uprisings. Tensions are further aggravated by...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisCOVID-19 has transformed Somaliland’s remittance lifelineRemittances were projected to crash at the start of the pandemic, but in Somaliland COVID-19 created an opportunity...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsYouTube closes African channel promoting televangelist’s violent ‘conversion therapy’In response to our enquiries about TB Joshua’s controversial exorcisms, YouTube terminated his channel. Facebook...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureCan social media help in the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt?Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAs the rich get richer and the Global South gets poorer, expect more conflictRising inequality provides ripe pickings for militant Islamist groups plotting insurgencies – and ensures the ‘war...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe EU and UK are releasing the money of deposed dictatorsWhy is the EU lifting sanctions on politicians accused of corruption in Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, when so little...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK needs to build a memorial for the people we enslavedThe revamp of Trafalgar Square, which is home to a statue of one of the slave trade’s founding fathers, offers the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s revolution under siege: When the IMF calls the shotsThe nation’s young democracy is already at a critical junction. What comes next?
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionStop imposing your imperialist Western transphobia on my peopleSocieties across the world acknowledged and celebrated gender-diverse communities – until the British arrived to...
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionRepressive governments play whack-a-mole with Africans’ digital rightsA new report on digital rights in ten African countries reveals how states are waging a brutal online war against...
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Published in: 50.50US Catholics funded Malawi opponents of legal abortion in cases of rapeAfter condemning abortion reform as an imposition of “foreign cultures”, a religious group in Malawi took thousands...
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Published in: Home: OpinionRising Isis attacks in Africa mean the ‘war on terror’ is far from overBiden’s focus on Afghanistan exit may seem like an end to the endless war, but instead the Pentagon has ramped up...
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Published in: 50.50: Investigation‘Misleading and wrong’: South African experts condemn ‘abortion pill reversal’openDemocracy has found doctors willing to prescribe this controversial ‘treatment’ on four continents, including Africa
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