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Human Rights
International Political Forum

World Press Freedom Day: The continuing struggle for freedom of the press in Liberia

Freedom in itself is not free because there must always be a price to pay. Across the globe, people and nations have struggled to gain independece or freedom against oppression, suppression, colonialism, and neocolonialism for ...
by Joe Wilson
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Health
International Political Forum

Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat

It was not long ago that a crippled man became the most powerful person on the planet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest-serving President of the United States, a man who helped take the country out of an economic depre...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Gender-Based Violence

Maimuna’s Fight Against FGM

The United Kingdom is one of the international leaders on topics such as Female Genital Mutilation, commonly known as FGM, with many summits on the topic held in London. However, the British government is much less progressive ...
by Charlaine Grosse-Lopez
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Human Rights

Media Workers & Human Rights Activists Battle Against Zimbabwean Threats to Freedom of Expression

Many of us let out a sigh of relief when Owen Gagare and Dumisani Muleya – from the Zimbabwe Independent – were released following their arrest for publishing an article which had exposed secret relations between Zimbab...
by Katie O'Reilly-Boyles
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China

Crisis Time In South Sudan

A Young Nation South Sudan became an independent nation in 2011. The new-found independence brought with it the hope of a fresh beginning. At least hope in the sense that things would get better and not worse. Yet hope, for a...
by Davide Castro
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International Political Forum

Community Key to ‘Green’ Tourism

Amidst the Westgate attack and terrorist threats to Kenya hundreds of tourism industry experts converged in Kenya to converse about green tourism. Events and management groups, travelers, conservationists, hoteliers, tours and ...
by Fridah Mlemwa
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Cuba
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Brave New World: The significance of Cuba at the Summit of the Americas

In 2013, US President Barack Obama and the Cuban leader, Raul Castro, shook hands at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesburg, and it took the world by surprise. After five decades of separation, it appeared somethin...
by Simon Fraser
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Taking Aid Outside of Politics

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button”] The Labour Party is now ramping up a campaign, backed by the Private Members Bill, to leg...
by Damien Dacey
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Botswana

A Graduate Had an Idea That Changed A Country

Founded in 2009, PING (Positive Innovation for the Next Generation) is a youth-led organisation based in Gaborone, Botswana aiming to use technology in creating and educating the next generation of problem solvers. In the summe...
by Kayleigh Board
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