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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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Published in: 50.50The silencing of Leila de Lima – Duterte’s “first political prisoner”The Philippines senator’s detention is emblematic of ‘sneaking authoritarianism’ amid the president’s bloody war on...
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Published in: 50.50A fatwa against sexual violence: the story of a historic congress of female Islamic scholars
Can women interpret Islamic law? Scholars who think so recently gathered in Indonesia, where fatwas were also issued...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A new international municipalist movement is on the rise – from small victories to global alternativesIn a world stuck between neoliberal crisis and authoritarianism, a reinvigorated municipalist movement is proving a...
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Published in: 50.50Inciting soldiers to rape in the PhilippinesDuterte offered immunity to soldiers that commit rape in the current anti-terror campaign in Mindanao. It could make...
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Published in: HomeMyanmar’s unique challengesOne year after Aung San Suu Kyi took office, Myanmar’s transition to democracy remains incomplete, and the country...
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