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The Pros and Cons of Drafting Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox

The Israeli public largely objects to the current policy of allowing ultra-orthodox Jewish youth to avoid army service, but the rule has long been upheld thanks to political power play. Now, for the first time in 18 years, an I...
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Russia

A Fistful of Bloggers: Russian MP Pressured to Resign

It’s not often that Russian anti-corruption activists can boast about their results. This week is one of those times. On February 12, 2013, head of RossPil and Coordinating Council of the Opposition member, Alexey Navalny...
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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 ...
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Giants, Hackers, Trolls: Where Mythology and Online Activism Meet

Netizens have come to know a “troll” as ”someone who posts a deliberately provocative message” to fuel an argument online. That these inflammatory net users were labeled as “trolls” was no accident. The original m...
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North America

“Ask Angy” Humanizes the Experience of Undocumented Immigrants

“Isn’t it kind of ironic that we’re undocumented, but you have to prove that you’re undocumented with all these documents?,” Angy Rivera concludes in one of her videos. Angy is a college student born in C...
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Light Weapons: Moving Pictures From Syria

Over 500,000 videos have been uploaded to the Internet from Syria during the past two years. Many document the course of protest and conflict, while others promote the views and perspectives of combatants, protesters, peace mov...
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Human Rights

Syrian Children Pay the Steep Price of War

During the last 10 years, around 10 million children are estimated to have been killed as a result of war. The Children’s Rights Portal categorizes child war victims as civilian victims, soldiers, displaced, orphans, wo...
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Russia
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Crooks, Thieves, & the Independent Mayors Who Run Russia

The mayor of Yaroslavl and several of his colleagues will spend the next two months behind bars on extortion charges. Evgeny Urlashov, a former United Russia member who ran as an opposition-friendly independent, won the mayor...
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Iran

Do These Videos Show Iranians Fighting in Syria’s War?

That Iran supports the Syrian regime is well known, but there has been little evidence of direct involvement on the ground. Now a series of videos purporting to show Persian-speakers dressed in military uniforms, operating...
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