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Published in: HomeDrug offences: states must acknowledge the flawed logic at the heart of the regime itselfAs the world turns its back on the death penalty for drug offences, the US looks to the extreme fringe.
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Published in: HomeHow populism directed against minorities is used to prop up Myanmar’s ‘Democratic’ revivalIt is delusional to expect that this unfettered racism will stop there. It must be confronted. Shockingly, though,...
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Published in: HomeThe deception virus infecting the global liberal orderThere is a perceptible shift in public mood, and the search for a vaccine to the deception virus is in full swing.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIn the Philippines, political trolling is an industry – this is how it worksA new study uncovers elite ad and PR strategists as chief architects of disinformation.
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Published in: 50.50What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are...
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Published in: 50.50Students hit the road to fight street harassment in Kuala Lumpur – in picturesOn a global day of action for sexual and bodily rights in Muslim societies, Malaysian students stood against...
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Published in: HomeTen reflections inspired by the Rohingya crisisThe educated, middleclass layman, who is interested in the world and has a sense of social justice, but doesn’t...
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Published in: HomeEllecer “Budit” Carlos: We are going through a revival of the Marcos dictatorshipWhat appeared to have been a people's revolution was in fact a revolution of the bourgeois, hijacked by élites....
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Published in: Home“Is Populism a Problem”? – a story for the World Forum for Democracy 2017If you’ve ever shared a room with an elephant… you know what matters isn’t the presence of an unpredictable beast –...
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Published in: HomeWestern countries are more secure without nuclear armsNATO’s current nuclear strategy is untenable. Crises during the Cold War reveal that nuclear strategies become...
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Published in: 50.50Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow: “it's never easy to fight for what we believe in”Founding member of the Demosistō political party talked to World Forum for Democracy youth delegates about the...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesWhat China can teach the west about digital democracyChina is a repressive country. It’s also a laboratory for democracy in the digital age.
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Published in: TransformationSaints in politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the dilemmas of political desire
We delude ourselves by projecting qualities onto politicians who have no intention of embodying them.
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Published in: HomeEthnic cleansing and the price of silenceFor years Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar by any means possible. It is time to re-examine theses advanced by...
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Published in: HomeWhen is a genocide a genocide?(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If...
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Published in: HomeThe end of anonymity? Trump and the tyranny of the majorityWorldwide, there is an administration-sanctioned attack on anonymity, online and off.
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Published in: 50.50The long road to gender equality in southeast AsiaSingapore may soon elect its first female president – but the struggle for gender equality in the region is far from...
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Published in: HomeWhat does North Korea want?US-led war games may look like a defensive manoeuver to us, but from North Korea‘s perspective they do not look the same.
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Published in: HomeLiu Xiaobo and the struggle for democracyA moment of silence for Liu Xiaobo's death, and the cause of personal freedom in China.
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Published in: HomeIn Indonesia, the peasant struggle of Kendeng"We are ‘orang desa’ (country people), far from big cities. Maybe it’s hard for you to imagine that we work close to...
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