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Human Rights

Bedouins & The Prawer Law

The Prawer Law affects the Arab population of the Naqab area (Negev). Also known as the Bedouins, they constitute a semi-nomadic Arab population that had inhabited the southern desert of Israel long before Israel was establishe...
by Catarina Santos
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Human Rights

Freelancing on the Battlefield: What Price are we Paying for our News?

How much should a photograph cost? How much should a photographer cost? And what if the photographer was injured trying to take the photo? Or died. How much would it cost then? Olivier Voisin was a 38-year-old French freelance ...
by Tala Basheer ElIssa
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Human Rights

Human Trafficking in the Sinai: The Price of a Human Life

”Listen, you have one and a half hours to get the money and meet me, that’s your last chance or you can forget the whole thing.” Meron Estefanos, Swedish-Eritrean journalist and human rights activist, who received this me...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Human Rights

Casual racism? The not so funny side to the Australian Football League

AFL is arguably Australia’s national game and it encompasses so much of the Australian way of life. It’s known affectionately as footy to its fans, and even ‘aerial ping pong’ to his haters. Fans are passionate about th...
by Trudy McIntosh
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Human Rights

WATCH: The Fight for Food

Each year, an estimated one third of all food produced, an astounding 1.3 billion tonnes, ends up in bins and landfill sites, or is lost due to inadequate pre and post harvest techniques or poor transportation practice...
by Urban Times
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Human Rights

Silent No More: Lebanon’s Migrants Fight the Kafala System

On the 14th of March 2012, a woman named Alem Dechasa committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at Der El-Salib mental hospital. Four days prior, as witnessed by an amateur video, she was kidnapped by her owner, her ma...
by Joey Ayoub
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Changemaker of the Week

Changemaker of the Week: De Andre Roberts: Leader of the Second Civil Rights Movement

Many believe that to be an Changemaker, to do something innovative and courageous you need to create something outside yourself, an organization, a society, a cure for disease. Not De Andre Roberts. Human rights encapsulates fo...
by Jessica Trevis
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Human Rights

Russia’s “Bolotnaya Case” – An “Ordinary” Political Trial

This Sunday will mark the one year anniversary of the beginning of what Russians call “The Bolotnaya Case”. On May 6 2012, protesters at Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square demonstrating against Vladimir Putin’s...
by Daniel Kennedy
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Human Rights

We’re All Journalists Now: Press freedom, internet freedom, and the line between the two

Today is World Press Freedom Day.  As the IPF exists to provide a platform for free speech, it is an important occasion for us; we recognise the role that a free press continues to play in exposing corruption, keeping people i...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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