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Weekly News Roundup: 26 May-1 June 2014

Politics EU Elections Update ‘EU elections have turned out to be what most experts expected. There was a sharp shift to the right, with many far-right parties securing extraordinary parts of the vote, some even winning the e...
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Weekly News Roundup: 18-25 May 2014

Politics Russia And China Strike Multi-Billion Gas Deal This week Gazprom signed a deal with China, which will see the company sell 38 billion cubic meters of gas to the energy-devouring Asian powerhouse. Although details have ...
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How The Dutch Are Reinventing The Poisoned Food Industry.

Although it has been a year since I moved from my hometown Amsterdam to London, I’m far from integrated in terms of the British food culture. Keeping a ‘normal’ healthy diet, I find it hard to find decent, afforda...
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Does Legalising Prostitution Help Fight Human Trafficking?

Lucy is a 22-year old girl with a two-year old son. She worked as a webcam-girl in her home country Romania, despite having obtained a diploma in architecture. Two years ago she moved to The Netherlands, where she became one of...
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Will Uruguay help fix the Dutch drug policy?

In an attempt to overcome the so-called ‘war on drugs’, Uruguay has decided to legalize marijuana. This makes the liberal South-American country, the first nation in the world to legalize the production, sale and co...
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WATCH: The Big Racism Experiment

The lazy, ignorant Blue Eyes vs. the superior Brown Eyes Thirty unsuspecting young people enter an old factory-like building. They signed up to participate in a TV-show without any prior knowledge about its content. Soon enough...
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Ohh, I Really Want To Marry That Guy That Whistled To Me From His Car

Thank you Hannah Price for doing what I always wanted to do: Capturing the act of men catcalling women on the streets. In her photography exhibition “City of Brotherly Love”, the African-Mexican-American photographe...
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Sexual Assault: Get The Picture?

More than 2,000 images of sexual assault survivors holding posters with quotes from their attackers have been posted on Project Unbreakable since its launch in October 2011. These powerful pictures do not only help survivors of...
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Discovery of a 30-year old Afghan Death List: Closure for Relatives of the Victims

A 30-year old death list was found by the Dutch National police during an investigation on an Afghan refugee suspected of war crimes. The list contains the names of almost 5.000 people that have been executed in 1978 and 1979 b...
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