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Editors' Picks

FairPlanet’s Editors’ Picks offers weekly commentary on globally relevant topics, chosen by our editors to provide fresh insights into the stories shaping our world. Whether inspired by breaking news or themes explored in our podcast and video series, these commentaries bring global issues into focus with a local perspective.

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09.Mar
AFGHANISTAN-VOTE-WOMEN
March 09, 2019
Equality for Afghan women
editor:Shadi Khan Saif
The power-sharing tussle among the men dominates the vague Afghan peace process while women remain marginalised on the sidelines.
08.Mar
International-Womens-Day
March 08, 2019
Happy International Women's Day
editor:Gurmeet Singh
March 8 is International Women's Day. Happy day to all women and women-identifying people out there. And much power to you all.
07.Mar
Clorama Dorvilias
March 07, 2019
VR game seeks to promote racial and gender equality
editor:Yair Oded
Debias VR developed a game which encourages educators to identify and abandon their racial and gender-based biases in the classroom.
05.Mar
South Africa
March 05, 2019
The gender agenda
editor:Bob Koigi
Making a case for gender equality and empowerment helps grow economies, foster development and remains our best bet at a sustainably inclusive future.
04.Mar
Abdul Aziz Muhamat
March 04, 2019
Abdul Aziz Muhamat, the poster child for refugees’ resilience
editor:Bob Koigi
"I have been put in a cage for six years. But instead of making me weak, the cage made me so strong," says Abdul Aziz Muhamat, Manus Island detainee.
03.Mar
television pakistan
March 03, 2019
The thin line between waging and reporting a war
editor:Shadi Khan Saif
In the wake of flared-up armed tension between nuclear-capable India and Pakistan, impartial, independent and critical reporting became the initial victim.
01.Mar
Independent Group
March 01, 2019
Centrism: the new, old way of keeping everything the way it is
editor:Gurmeet Singh
At the still point of the turning world, the past and future are gathered, to paraphrase T. S. Eliot. The new philosophy of centrism.
27.Feb
green deal
February 27, 2019
Pressure grows on Democrats to support Green New Deal
editor:Yair Oded
Democrats across the US are being pressured by constituents to throw their support behind the Green New Deal.
23.Feb
water india sikh
February 23, 2019
The simmering water war in South Asia
editor:Shadi Khan Saif
Pakistan — like India — is facing a grim situation in regard to managing its water resources for the rapidly growing population.
22.Feb
Shamima Begum
February 22, 2019
Let Shamima Begum back into the U.K. to face the consequences
editor:Gurmeet Singh
Shamima Begum is one of three British girls who left the UK to join ISIL in Syria. She and her friends were 15 years old at the time.
21.Feb
maduro
February 21, 2019
Western imperialism deepens Venezuela crisis
editor:Yair Oded
Western intervention in Venezuela should be recognised for what it is: an attempt to seize the country's oil.
18.Feb
shell niger
February 18, 2019
Let justice prevail in the Ogoni widows versus Shell case
editor:Bob Koigi
Four Nigerian widows have sued Dutch oil giant Shell for being complicit in their husbands’ execution, a legal battle that has spanned over 22 years.
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