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Published in: openSecurityThe arrest of Cristian Labbé breathes new life into Chile's human rights struggleNew charges indict one of the most ensconced figures on the Chilean right, and a symbol of the enduring impunity for...
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Published in: openSecurityBehind the surge of unaccompanied child migrants to the USPoliticians fighting over immigration still don't understand how violence continues to drive people out of Central America.
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Published in: openSecurityHow Bahrain spies on British soilThe Bahraini government has been using sophisticated malware—complete with technical support from its...
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Published in: openSecurityThe missing women of AfghanistanAfter 13 years of war, 'democracy' is based on the rule of men, not law.
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Published in: openSecurityThe International Criminal Court must fix its anti-African imageThe International Criminal Court is often presented as "racist" in Africa because of its focus on indictees from the...
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Published in: openSecurityMexico: student disappearances focus anger at abuse and impunity
Students shot dead by police, others “disappeared”, mass graves located … the absence of the rule of law and...
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Published in: openSecurityDrone strikes in Pakistan: laser or blunderbuss?Attacks by US drones have often been presented as forensic, yet only one in 25 victims in Pakistan were identifiably...
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Published in: openSecurityBombing in the Middle East again: three easy questions
The last one being, "what is the definition of madness?"
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Published in: openSecurityISIS in Washington: America's soundtrack of hysteria
Inside America’s system of terror-mongering: how it works, why it works, who benefits from it, and how it completes...
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Published in: openSecurityHong Kong: the stakes are highBeijing knows that the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong is not just about the future of the former British...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat Arab partners will get in return for strikes on SyriaMuch of the analysis of the US-led attacks on IS has been from the American end of the telescope. But how does it...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity for the future: in search of a new vision
A group of UK peacebuilding professionals invite participation in a new civic conversation about alternatives to the...
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Published in: openSecurityObama's dysfunctional coalition of the unwillingThe US call for "the broadest coalition of nations" to fight ISIS is simply an invocation of past moral crusades....
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Published in: openSecurityKenya’s outlaw police
Developments in Kenya show what happens when “counter-terrorist” police and other security forces are not subject to...
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt: time to end the diplomatic farceMany Egyptians are smarting from the betrayal of their revolution while the military-backed regime tightens its...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIsrael and the mirror of ISISNetanyahu is warning us off an organisation which, like Israeli Zionism, claims its legitimacy on religious grounds...
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Published in: openSecurityThe body of Colombian women is a battleground
A catalogue of sexual violence has accompanied the armed conflict in Colombia. The peace talks must not brush it...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy are police becoming more like soldiers?Militarisation of the police is a developing phenomenon, spreading into nominally democratic societies as the bonds...
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Published in: openSecurityWatching Ferguson, but still unseeingScaling back police militarization will not end the abuse of the state; the US has consistently mobilized the same...
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Published in: openSecurityStarvation as a weapon of war in SyriaSince 1993, there have been calls for the legal and political recognition of starvation as a weapon of war. In...
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