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Bangladesh

Bangladesh Factory Collapse: A Call For Change

All human beings deserve to be treated with dignity. Here, one victim of the Bangladesh factory collapse, which killed over 1,000 workers, recounts her close to death experience. “I didn’t think anybody could save me,” s...
by Bre Cruickshank
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Human Rights

Economic Growth in Africa Must Lead with Equitable Development for all

Africa has undoubtedly seen impressive economic growth over the past decade. They have put to shame predictions of a ‘hopeless’ continent; a comment The Economist magazine subsequently apologized for last year. More aptly, ...
by Ruth Nyambura
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Human Rights

Unpaid Internships: The Only Route To Success?

Right under our noses a poisonous, if not deadly epidemic has struck. No it’s not the measles, its unpaid internships – and whose fault is it anyway? The education system, parliament and employers have all faced criticism,...
by Jessica McGreal
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Human Rights
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This Woman Marched Thousands Of Kilometers Across Pakistan For Her Brother And Balochistan’s Missing People

Disappearances are not uncommon in Balochistan, where Baloch nationalists are fighting an armed resistance against the Pakistani state. Yet, the tale of “missing people” in Pakistan’s largest province remains one of th...
by Jahanzeb Hussain
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Human Rights
 

Made In Prison: Copenhagen and the paris Attacks

When news trickled through about Saturday’s attacks in Copenhagen, it was difficult to avoid a sense of déjà vu. Another Islamic extremist attacks another cartoonist. Then he targets Jews. Was this another Charlie Hebdo? A...
by Charlie de Rivaz
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Human Rights

WATCH: Religious missionaries are spreading homophobia in Uganda

In his latest documentary, God Loves Uganda, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the prop...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights
International Political Forum

Spain’s Southern Border Faces Yet Another Scandal

This much we know: at around 6 in the morning on Thursday, on the 6th of February, a group of around 250 people headed towards the Spanish-Moroccan border in Ceuta. Members of the Guardia Civil, the police force in control of S...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Human Rights

Chelsea Manning Denied Transgender Rights in Prison

Chelsea (formerly known as Bradley) Manning’s recent statement that she plans to live life as a woman, and wishes to go through hormone treatment has put transgender rights in focus of this case. As Manning is facing a 35 ye...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Human Rights
International Political Forum

#BringBackOurGirls: Nigerians Demand Release Of 200 Abducted Girls

Nigerians marched through the streets on April 30, 2014 demanding accelerated government action in the release of more than 200 girls abducted by jihadist group Boko Haram. A few weeks ago, armed men abducted the girls, who a...
by Nwachukwu Egbunike
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