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Pak Votes 2013: Pakistan’s Online Battle Against Political Violence

Elections in Pakistan are a tense affair. Nearly every time elections have been held in the past, parties hurled accusations of rigging and misconduct at each other, and violence erupted across the country. Until now, an averag...
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Asia

Philippine Typhoon Survivors Ask: ‘Where is our Government?’

Six days have passed since super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the central part of the Philippines but relief is not yet given to many survivors. Many dead bodies are still lying in the streets, refugees are begging for food, ...
by Mong Palatino
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Death to the Rapists?!

We gave her the name Nirbhaya – ‘fearless’. We made an icon of a terrified woman, brutalised by six men on the night of 16th December – a date we will not be soon to forget. On Friday afternoon, friends texted friends, ...
by Shambhavi Saxena
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Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat

It was not long ago that a crippled man became the most powerful person on the planet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest-serving President of the United States, a man who helped take the country out of an economic depre...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Asia

Pak Votes 2013: Women’s Vote – Women’s Voice

“There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.” Susan B. Anthony – 50 Shades of Feminism None of the key issues Pakistani women face will ever find the right solutions...
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North Korea: Violence Behind The Border

North Korea is a place with almost mythical qualities; with limited access to the country itself and only the smallest trickle of media coverage, it remains a great unknown. Today has seen the reveal of one of the most shockin...
by Saskia Whelan
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What’s The Modi Operandi? Potential Indo-Pakistan Relations After The Election

Two related events will come to dominate Indian politics in the coming general election year, and both lead to the same questions about India’s relationship with her northern neighbour and sister state, Pakistan. On February ...
by Christopher Cannell
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Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Salma Banu is 23 years old, a worker of shrimp cultivation in Tafalbari village , Southkhali Union in Bagherhat Bangladesh, she expressed “ while my husband‘s monthly income from his cultivated land was not enough to contin...
by Tithe Farhana
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Tibet: Inside the Occupation (Part 2)

Previously – Tibet: Inside the Occupation (A Colonized Tibet and the Attack on Religion)  Economic Disparity It is not only the loss of material culture and the manipulation of Tibet’s physical environment that is bein...
by Jessica Trevis
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