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Published in: openSecurityCentral African Republic: history of a collapse foretold?
Political instability and administrative weakness have been permanent features of the Central African Republic since...
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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: openSecurityWorld catches up with safety crisis in journalism
Professional journalists are the lifeblood of reliable information for the world. That’s why so many are killed. The...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Sudan: explaining the violence
The spiral of violence in South Sudan is not simply an ethnic conflict of Dinka on Nuer. Politics, as well as oil,...
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Published in: openSecurityDrones over the world
US drones are often thought of as focused entirely on action against Al-Qaeda and associates, particularly in...
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Published in: 50.50"We want peace. We’re tired of war"
"If we live violence every day, how can we work for the development of our country so that we can benefit from human...
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Published in: Shine A LightIs there an alternative to locking up migrants in the UK?
If detention is a tool of war on irregular migration, then the damage on both sides is severe. But this war is not...
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Published in: 50.50Detention and human rights in the UK: maintaining the presumption of liberty
Rigorous reviews by a genuinely independent panel could be a significant step away from the routine long-term...
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Published in: 50.50Yes to ending violence against women, but no to the ‘zero tolerance’ route
The problem with the use of 'zero tolerance' in public discourse is that it makes for good populist politics and...
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Published in: 50.50Who is to blame? Street sexual harassment in Yemen
We need an unambiguous law which punish harassers and not the victims, says Ghaidaa Al-Absi.
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Published in: HomeThe 'politics' in Ethiopia's political trials
The Ethiopian regime is using the legal system to eliminate dissident voices and drag protesters to court under...
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Published in: openSecurityLawfair
Court scrutiny of the British security services is to be welcomed; we can't debate properly our security needs...
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Published in: oDRWhat is Strategy 31?
For the last 12 months Russian cities have witnessed regular demonstrations to protest restrictions on the right to...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky (part 2)
Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky: an interview with Jamison Firestone (part 1)
Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: HomePakistan: prospects and perils
What's in store for Pakistan? Anatol Lieven forecasts. Listen now