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Afghanistan
International Political Forum

The United States Of Drones: Why Do Americans Support An Arguably Ineffective, Immoral, And Illegal Policy?

Drones: America’s Favorite Weapon Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have become the primary tool in the fight against terrorism since President Barack Obama took office. Originally used for purposes...
by John Haltiwanger
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Afghanistan

The Consequences Of Privatizing Security

Controversy over private security companies sparked late last month in Malaysia as the country experienced two armed robberies by security guards. This follows closely after public outcry earlier this year as the booming priv...
by Linn Kristin Klausen
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Human Rights

The Importance of Reporters Without Borders

UN Resolution 1738 (2006), Article 79 of the Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions (1977), and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) jointly protect the rights of all journalists and media per...
by Diana Naoum
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Asia
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Interview: My Escape From Tibet

Tashi, 29, arrived in the UK in November 2012 from Dharamsala, India. He was 18 when he fled Tibet in a three month journey through the borders of Tibet, Nepal and India, until he finally found sanctuary in a UN Refugee registr...
by Jessica Trevis
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Africa
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Forced Motherhood: Are Abortion Laws A Denial Of Human Rights?

Rape and pregnancy are typically not the concerns of children, or so we would hope. Yet, these are precisely issues faced by young girls across the globe, including a 10-year-old Senegalese girl who has been denied an abortion ...
by Naomi Hanna
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Human Rights

WATCH: Video animation of Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers

17 Guantánamo Bay prisoners are still participating in the hunger strike that became publicly known this spring. 16 of these prisoners are being force fed, using methods that can only be described as torture. Two others are t...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Africa

Human Trafficking in the Sinai: The Price of a Human Life

”Listen, you have one and a half hours to get the money and meet me, that’s your last chance or you can forget the whole thing.” Meron Estefanos, Swedish-Eritrean journalist and human rights activist, who received this me...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Human Rights
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The ‘Let Toys be Toys’ Campaign: The fight to end “gendered” toy marketing

The issue of “gendered toys” has plagued the media recently as people are coming out on both sides of the debate to discuss why there seem to be only two aisles at toy stores: “girl’s toys” and “boy’s toys...
by Katie O'Reilly-Boyles
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Africa

WATCH: Religious missionaries are spreading homophobia in Uganda

In his latest documentary, God Loves Uganda, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the prop...
by Natasha Lipman
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