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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsLiverpool rises in opposition to arms fair as legal challenge is mounted
Pressure mounts on council to cancel international electronic warfare conference that was blocked from Spanish city last year
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Published in: Home: OpinionUS has no intention of a global military retreat despite Biden’s promise
The military-industrial complex that feeds the US economy will lead to more remote warfare as a myriad of risks...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisWill hate crimes make Canada a less attractive destination for immigrants?
Canada has long claimed to be a global defender of human rights, but it has not always been welcoming towards...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghan ISIS offshoot ISKP takes on Taliban and US with deadly Kabul bombing
Airport attack that killed 90, including 13 American soldiers, is a warning shot of dissent among extremist...
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisWhy child sexual abuse in Kyrgyzstan remains unpunished
Official data shows that fewer and fewer child abusers are being sent to jail – and most avoid punishment...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghanistan’s future path to be determined by a corridor of power
The expanding Taliban’s new bond with China across a narrow border is set to greatly impact the region, and further...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoris Johnson is leading the UK into an even greater COVID catastrophe
Insistence on reopening despite Delta is not only ‘epidemiological stupidity’ but only one part of an abject failure...
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Published in: oDR: Feature'Gagarin was here!': inside the fight for Tashkent’s heritage
In Uzbekistan’s capital, a multicultural Soviet mahalla is under threat of demolition. But residents are fighting...
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Published in: oDR: Analysis'A small ray of hope': an urgent chance to decriminalise homosexuality in Uzbekistan
As long as the country’s Article 120 exists, said one young man, ‘we will live in fear and homophobes will have...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghans left to pick up the pieces of the West’s failed war
As the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of US and NATO allies’ retreat, has anyone considered the impact on...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKazakhstani couriers are pushing back against the gig economy
Workers pushed into unstable jobs by the pandemic are fighting against repressive local rules to set up their own trade union
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKumtor: the gold mine that could make or break Kyrgyzstan
A nationalist government has recently taken over management at the mine situated in Kyrgyzstan's mountains, but will...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCOVID-19 is a bigger threat than war. So why isn’t it funded the same?
With rising mutations, catastrophe looms unless powerful states stop being so inward-looking and cooperate to...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsFeminist groups demand action to ‘stop anti-rights infiltration’ at the UN
Global organisations call on UN agencies to ‘stop access to decision-making’ for opponents of women’s and LGBT...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKazakhstan is caught in a vicious cycle of debt. The pandemic has only made it worse
A culture of credit was nurtured for years in the Central Asian state, but now many left jobless by the pandemic...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureCredit trap: debt and dispossession in Central Asia
Since the collapse of the USSR, credit has slowly taken hold as the only way to make ends meet in Kazakhstan and...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy the Isis hit on Boko Haram leader is a warning shot to global security
The 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 waivers
New research reveals how Brussels puts companies’ profits ahead of millions of people’s lives worldwide
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisUzbekistan has 10,000 NGOs, but what do they do?
On paper, civil society in Uzbekistan seems to be thriving – but officials are hiding its problems behind manipulated data
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisDo Kazakhstanis care about their kin in Xinjiang?
The potential threat of ‘Chinese expansion’ has mobilised Kazakhstanis at home, yet the plight of ethnic Kazakhs in...