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Published in: openSecurityThe devastating truth of women’s rights in AfghanistanThe looming withdrawal of western forces from Afghanistan highlights the apparent dispensability of the modest gains...
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Published in: HomeBurma: the clash of church, state and societyBurma's government and political leaders are now paying a bitter price for allowing the reform process to be...
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Published in: openSecurityArrested democracy: why Thailand needs a new social contractThe Thai military may think its May takeover has run smoothly but authoritarian dictates and an elite power monopoly...
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Published in: HomeThe silent sea: Australia’s refugee policy and international scrutinyWithin Australia’s brutal treatment of refugees, there has been an enormous gulf between those who advocate on...
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Published in: HomeDangerous silence: debating "honour killings"
The recent decision by the “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” to cancel Uthman Badar’s talk on “honour killings” begs the...
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Published in: HomeAustralia’s one hundred days of truth-tellingOperation Blame the Victims was in full swing again today as Scott Morrison insisted that it was the unarmed men who...
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Published in: openSecurityArbitrary detention, once again, in ThailandIf madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth...
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Published in: HomeNew Zealand shrinks away from legal high limelightManufacturers aim to reap maximum profit in the minimal time before it is banned, so poorly developed NPS are thrown...
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Published in: HomeEurope freezes, Eurasia pivots
Behind the crisis in Ukraine lie deeper changes that are transforming the global economic and and political order,...
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Published in: openSecurityRana Plaza: the struggle continuesA year after the huge loss of mainly-female Bangladeshi garment workers’ lives at Rana Plaza, unions are still...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka inquiry: a Tamil asylum-seeker speaksAs an international inquiry on the bloodshed in Sri Lanka in 2009 looms, one Tamil asylum-seeker explains why it...
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Published in: HomeAmerica's chimerical pivot
The United States's shift towards Asia is being tested by global economic realities, say Ernesto Gallo & Giovanni Biava.
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Published in: HomeThe Rohingya refugee making factoryIf the production of refugees was an industry, Myanmar would be among the world’s market leaders. And of all its...
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Published in: ourBeebPublic service broadcasting: going under down under
There are many similarities between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC it is modelled after – but...
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Published in: HomeNorth Korea: elite shame, world test
A credible United Nations report on North Korea demands a humane and practical response to its people's degradation,...
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Published in: HomeAustralia and the boat people – the same descent into a dark place emerging worldwide
It is high time that we started to view the situation of immigrants and asylum seekers for what it is. A global,...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy in the "Asian century"
A shift of global power to the east exposes the west's domestic as well as international weaknesses, say Ernesto...
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Published in: openSecurityExtending a hand or raising a fist to the state?From mobile phones to crowdsourced election monitoring, an in-depth look at how communication technologies are...
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Published in: openSecurityViolence visited on Cambodian garment workers
Cambodian garment workers make around $80 a month, taking on long hours of overtime in harsh conditions. Now workers...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Korea: rail workers, repression and resistance
An almost unreported strike in South Korea, which has just come to an end, epitomises how a ‘free’ market can be...
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