5 Experts Explain Why Alexander Sodiqov’s Arrest In Tajikistan Is So Troubling
More than a week has passed since scholar and Global Voices community member Alexander Sodiqov was detained in Tajikistan, where he was conducting research on conflict resolution as part of an ongoing collaborative project wit...
Just Because My Face Is A Little Different
The natural course of any language shows that some words, more than others, are likely to disappear. An advance in technology or a gradual cultural evolution can trigger the phenomenon. For instance, words such as mongolism or ...
Detained and Desperate: Undocumented Migrants in Greece
Stories of despair were transmitted through Twitter when politicians, journalists and anti-racism activists visited a detention facility within the Drapetsona police station in Piraeus city, where more than 100 unauthorized ...
Capital Punishment`s Place In A Modern Justice System – An Outdated Concept
The exonerations of Glenn Ford in the US and Iwao Hakamada in Japan, shed light on a long debated question: has capital punishment got a place in a modern justice system? Even most of those, ferociously campaigning against deat...
Growing Islamophobia In France: Towards A Revival Of The Extreme Right?
As the French Muslim population has been steadily growing, so has violence against them. Absent from the media a few years ago, the term ‘islamophobia’ is now frequently used to describe prejudice and hatred towards Muslims...
Ensuring Best Practices In Guatemalan Integration: Guatemalan Or Foreign Responsibility?
As a Canadian grad student interested in Central American integration, I moved to Guatemala for a few months to work on my Masters thesis. I had been studying Guatemalan policy, mining laws and economic issues in Guatemala for ...
