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Keffah Ali Deeb: A Symbol of Syria’s Non-Violent Resistance Movement
When the Arab Spring revolutions first broke out, artist Keffah Ali Deeb was one of the first people in Syria to protest outside the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan embassies. She joined other activists in standing up against S...
The UK response to the “refugee crisis” is theoretically sound but practically counterproductive
The UK Conservative government has a strategy for tackling the current “refugee crisis” that is theoretically convincing but practically contradictory. The strategy consists of letting as few refugees onto UK soil as it can...
Daily News Roundup – 3 October 2012
Europe Anti-EU protester scales St Peter’s Basilica A man has scaled the dome of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, apparently in protest against EU measures which he alleges penalise small businesses. He is stan...
“Out of sight, out of mind” – The Mentally Ill in African Countries in Crisis
A 13-year-old boy in Somalia has been tied to a stick for over ten years. An 8-year-old girl in Nigeria has been kept with high-risk inmates at the local prison for several months. A 26-year-old man in Kenya has been locked in ...
Climate Change: Focus on the Arctic
The trends of climate change present a worldwide security challenge and require the adequate response of the international community. The negative impacts of these changes are demonstrated regionally in a different extent; larg...
China-Africa Relations: From Asymmetrical Dependence to Symmetrical Interdependence
Notwithstanding the increase of trade between China and the African Union countries in the last decade, and the large number of Chinese investments in Africa, these relations are mostly to the advantage of the Chinese and thei...
