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Published in: openDemocracyUK9 reasons the International Development Sector needs to get political, address power relations, and adopt a transformative agendaThe Sustainable Development Goals are sending out distress signals. They won’t eradicate global poverty whilst...
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Published in: oDRPutting Turkmenistan under the spotlightNew research highlights the protracted economic and human rights crisis in this Central Asian state - and warns...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaConceptualizing love for peace from below: humane security in AfghanistanAn alternative concept of security is needed based on values of humanity and empathy, a security that is not only...
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Published in: oDRIn Kyrgyzstan, the standoff between the old regime and the new authorities reaches new heightsKyrgyzstan’s parliament has stripped a powerful ex-president of immunity, and now this Central Asian state is moving...
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Published in: oDRIn Uzbekistan, women’s rights are changing - but not fast enoughUzbekistan still lacks a law on domestic violence, and legislation on gender equality is yet to appear.
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Published in: oDRHow a Central Asian business empire dines out on British secrecyUsing the UK’s lax corporate transparency and accountability regime, international businesses can, in effect, mask...
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Published in: oDRThe global measles outbreak arrives in Kyrgyzstan (again)Amid a global measles surge, vaccine refusals for religious reasons in this Central Asian state are growing.
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia brings foreign fighters’ families home, but what next?How do you take back families coming from IS territory? Thousands of men and their families traveled from Central...
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Published in: oDRA school of bitter experience: how Kazakhstan’s media regulations restrict journalist freedomThe Kazakh state is increasingly bringing the work of independent journalists under control. A new media law places...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan and the USAThe war in Afghanistan has been continuing every day for almost forty years. What could bring it to an end?
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Published in: oDRThe Kazakhstan elections and the transition that wasn’tIn March, Kazakhstan's long-term leader stepped down, making way for a "transition" of power. But everything about...
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Published in: oDRRevolving doors, invisible hands: how the state and private sector are merging in the new UzbekistanAs the once infamously corrupt Uzbekistani state tries to reform itself, new research shows how the state and...
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Published in: oDRWhy Kazakh political prisoner Max Bokayev should be releasedIn 2016, Max Bokayev, an environmental activist, was sentenced to five years in prison. His case remains a warning...
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Published in: oDRRivalries and power struggles: a portrait of the Islamic State in KhorasanA new book focuses on the power struggles that drove the emergence of Islamic State — and its spillover in Central Asia.
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Published in: oDRWhat is the Kazakh regime learning from citizen protests?Recent events in Kazakhstan show the regime’s evolving response to discontent from below.
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Published in: oDRIn Kazakhstan, transgender people face discriminationIn Kazakhstan, transgender persons have the right to surgical procedures to change their sex – but little access to...
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Published in: oDRWhat’s behind anti-migrant feeling in Russia’s arctic republic of Yakutia?In Yakutia, crime and nationality intertwine in the latest wave of anti-migrant feeling in Russia.
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Published in: oDROpen letter: What is going on at RFE/RL’s Tajik service?Multiple investigations have revealed how Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service systematically cooperates with the country’s...
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Published in: oDRNazarbayev's resignation and the end of post-Soviet politics in KazakhstanThe "lifelong leader" of Kazakhstan has resigned, putting an end to a 30-year rule — and opening up space to reflect...
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Published in: oDRFractured friendships: Soviet-Afghan War veterans make their way through instability and conflictThirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with...
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