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WATCH: Strong to the Finish for Mongolia’s Children

Cut off by sharp mountains and the sweeping Gobi desert to the south Mongolia is an adventurers dream. The harsh yet mesmerising landscape and rich culture makes it one of the last places on earth that is a true test to the ski...
by Nicky Armstrong
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Saudi Arabia: The Next Arab Revolution

The Arab Spring clearly demonstrated a yearning for freedom in the Middle East. Whilst the Gulf was largely unaffected by bloody uprisings, the most bound and voiceless sector of Saudi society is still hungry for change. On t...
by Nadia Hasan
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The Dubious Arrests And Mistreatment Of Basque Political Activists

Early in November, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Democratic Lawyers (EDL), published their “Motion regarding the situation of Lawyers and Human Rights defende...
by Sanne Jehoul
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Venezuela’s political prisoners and the limbo of indifference

On 18 March 2014, Daniel Ceballos, Mayor of San Cristóbal, one of the most politically important cities in Venezuela, was arrested by officers of the Bolivarian National Service of Intelligence (SEBIN) and taken into custody. ...
by Claudia Gonzalez
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Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious—it is much easier for an NGO to market basic needs programs than it is to market programs directed at resolving more complicated issues. Because the more complicated issues (for...
by Tiffany Brittingham
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WATCH: Ingenuity, Film and Social Media Combine to Save Lives from Landmines

Massoud Hassani grew up on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, near a desert filled with unexploded mines left by foreign armies. As a child he would build cheap wind-powered toys and race them across the desert with his frien...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Celebrating differences: The significance of the United Nations today

For sixty eight years, the United Nations had pledged to abide by these principles, rooted in which they’ve strengthened their foundational base. While it sustained humanity from meeting its ultimate collapse in the event of ...
by Arpita Mitra
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The ‘Invisible’ Scar, Crime

I wrote a Facebook update asking my friends to share on what to do in the event of rape. And, Moraa Osoro a pal wrote in caps: REPORT. REPORT. REPORT. Adding, “If it is not reported, it never happened.” The last bit was p...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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Opposition representatives propose “freedom from fear” law In Serbia

Nineteen representatives of the Serbian National Assembly filed a proposal for a new law that would guarantee Serbian citizens freedom from fear. While freedom from fear is allegedly a right guaranteed by the Constitution of th...
by Danica Radisic
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