[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button”] Democracy is an ongoing concept which has redefined itself at various times throughout hi...
Atrocities have filled our media outlets for decades. Yet despite evidence, many are either ignored or defended by leading academics and national officials, causing human rights violations to go largely unnoticed. “As hum...
For the first time since 1782, a British Prime Minister failed to carry a war motion through the House of Commons. David Cameron’s failure to win a parliamentary motion to attack Syria is huge, particularly since the moti...
Right under our noses a poisonous, if not deadly epidemic has struck. No it’s not the measles, its unpaid internships – and whose fault is it anyway? The education system, parliament and employers have all faced criticism,Â...
As an active participant in the fight against FGM in the UK, Anj Handa was contacted by the Leeds Migrant Access Partnership early this year asking whether she would meet with one of their peer volunteers, indicating that they ...
Fifteen years ago the Canadian gold mine company Gabriel Resources approached the Romanian government with its intentions to mine Rosia Montana, the small commune in the heart of Transylvania, and its surroundings. If approved...
Footballers after football – financially set for life, attractive wife, worshipped by thousands after a career living every boy’s dream. What could possibly go wrong? Well, recent studies show that quite a lot can, and ...
As an article on IPF outlined a few weeks ago, things seem to be moving in Catalonia, a region in north-eastern Spain. After almost four decades as an autonomous community, more and more people have taken to the streets to dema...
Having been born post 1992 I never knew Yugoslavia in its glory. I have only been aware of war, genocide and poverty in these 98,766 square miles of forgotten land, and it seems that the rest of Europe shares in my ignorance. F...