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Gordhan Positive as the BRICS Start to Look Like a Bloc
On Tuesday, which signified the start of the 5th (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) BRICS Summit in South Africa, finance ministers met to discuss the proposition of the “BRICS bank” to rival western financial ...
#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...
‘Gender-Based Violence’ Mapping in Cambodia
The Open Institute NGO has launched a crowdsourced gender-based violence mapping tool in Cambodia to promote and protect women rights. Notably, gender-based violence has remained a significant issue in Cambodia. A UN repor...
Europe Without Brussels: New Intergovernmentalism and Europe’s Integration Paradox
What has been happening to the European integration process in the last decade or so can only be described as an integration paradox. Never before has there been so much discussion and debate at the European level as during the...
Mamta’s Story: Domestic Violence in Nepal
The murmurs in the crowd slowly faded away as Bibek Koirala, the presenter for the day, stepped up to the podium and cleared his throat at the mike. “Hello everyone. If you all are settled in, we would like to begin the press...
A Real War on Drugs – Mexico’s Narcotics Conflict
For those of us fortunate to live in the developed world it is perhaps easy to sneer at the rhetorical flourish often used by American and Western leaders to describe their diplomatic and practical support for the prohibition o...
