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Editors' Pick
October 31, 2014
Tim Cook on difference, empathy and empowerment
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has written a powerful piece in Bloomberg Businessweek on being gay and the impact it has had on his life. Rather than 'admitting' [...]
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Editors' Pick
September 29, 2014
Hong Kong citizens refuse to back down
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As Hong Kong opened for business on Monday, protests continued across the city, blocking roads and closing schools. The protests, the latest wave [...]
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September 10, 2014
Crackdown on Indian people's movement
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Greenpeace is urging people to sign a petition to stop a crackdown in Mahan, India, on those protesting the building of a mine which will destroy a forest and key [...]
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September 08, 2014
China to introduce carbon market
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When even China decides it's time to open a carbon market, countries left behind can no longer deny climate change. So says a piece published on Mother Jones last week, on [...]
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Editors' Pick
September 05, 2014
China surpasses the US as biggest importer of Middle East oil
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China now buys more crude oil from the Middle East than the US, and this is set to have a big impact on geopolitics in the region. Today China [...]
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Editors' Pick
August 15, 2014
Racial tensions soar in the US
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Clashes between protesters and police over the death of an unarmed black teenager in Missouri have fueled fears of much greater racial tension between police and citizens across the [...]
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August 14, 2014
On Freedom
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We are proud individuals living on the city, But the flames couldn’t go much higher.We find God and religions to,To paint us with salvation.But no one,No nobody,Can give you the power, To rise over love,And over hate,Through this iron sky,That’s [...]
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Editors' Pick
June 16, 2014
Free speech threatened in Hungary
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A media clampdown in Hungary has seen a Constitutional Court rule that website operators are now responsible for any comments to blog posts or articles which may violate media [...]
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Editors' Pick
June 02, 2014
Meriam Ibrahim's husband not informed of expected release
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A Sudanese official told media over the weekend that Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death for abandoning Islam, will be freed from prison in [...]
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May 12, 2014
Human Rights Watch: Killer robots should be banned
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Killer robots, or fully autonomous lethal weapons, should be banned because they have the ability to hinder basic human rights, according to a new report by [...]
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May 06, 2014
Ethnic cleansing in the CAR
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The New York Times editorial today reports that sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in the Central African Republic has erupted into a campaign of [...]
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November 28, 2013
Two Human Rights Films Worth Watching
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Two news documentary films take a fresh look at human rights: one at internet privacy and the other at living with HIV. Blood Brother Director Steve Hoover—Rocky’s best friend— chronicles [...]
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November 23, 2013
Forced Labour is about Politics and Economics as much as Crime
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It is commonly asserted that forced labour, along with trafficking and slavery, represents ‘the underside of globalisation’. In this understanding, [...]
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October 06, 2013
One Last Throw of the Dice? Sudan's Faltering Regime
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While al-Bashir and his entourage seem likely to pull through this time, with hundreds of killed and injured protesters, maybe more than a thousand civilians taken into [...]
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Story
August 12, 2013
iTeachers and Apps in Malawi: Downloading or Downgrading Education?
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At Biwi Primary School in Malawi’s capital of Lilongwe, the ‘Unlocking Talent’ Learning Centre is under construction. It is being readied for [...]
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July 14, 2013
Survivor Activist Malala Yousafzai Addresses the UN
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In October 2012 members of the Pakistani Taliban approached Malala's school bus as she left school in the Swat Valley, coldly asking which of the girls [...]