Once you've voted under a fairer system, first past the post looks backward.
Apathy, malnutrition and illiteracy conspired to make this April's Sudanese Presidential Election a non-event in the autonomous south. The ballot on independence, scheduled for January, may be less so - provided the result, however it turns out, does not lead to a resumption of war
Transforming the mechanisms and means to enable an acquisition of English is urgently required. Language is the life blood of everyone and should not be relegated to the sidelines
Something challenging and refreshing has begun to emerge in some serious publications. Women are claiming an equal right to exploration and debate, and helping to redefine the 'mainstream', but through gender difference, not through submerging
Note to self: Make sure you know the meaning of the past before you set about cleaning the windows of the future! Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith blogs her experiences during Refugee Week
Ex-Yukos bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev stand accused of a crime that even prosecutors are finding difficult to define, writes Mariana Toroschesnikova. Now foreigners are beggining to understand the real danger in Russia lies not in wild bears roaming its streets but in wild prosec
We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel to the country responsible for Belgium's creation in the first place
Thailand's proposed course of reconciliation is contaminated by the dysfunctional socio-political system that caused the crisis.
The Public Assemblies Bill proposed in Northern Ireland threatens the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression.
After attacks on mosques last month left almost a hundred Ahmadis dead, Pakistan must decide what kind of nation it wants to be. Choose wisely, implores Zainab Mahmood.
On April 9 2010, after explosions in the Moscow metro killed 39 people, rumours were circulated of 1,000 ‘black widows’ who had been recruited by the militants. When the press published the names of 22, Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch found that she knew some of these dangerous women : a seam
In the third of a series on drugs in Russia's regions, Oleg Pavlov reports from the Republic of Tatarstan, 400 miles east of Moscow. While the situation there is certainly not as desperate as it was ten years ago, even government officials suggest as many as 2% of the population are addicted.
