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World Press Freedom Day: The continuing struggle for freedom of the press in Liberia

Freedom in itself is not free because there must always be a price to pay. Across the globe, people and nations have struggled to gain independece or freedom against oppression, suppression, colonialism, and neocolonialism for ...

by Joe Wilson

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Changemaker of the Week: De Andre Roberts: Leader of the Second Civil Rights Movement

Many believe that to be an Changemaker, to do something innovative and courageous you need to create something outside yourself, an organization, a society, a cure for disease. Not De Andre Roberts. Human rights encapsulates fo...

by Jessica Trevis

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Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious—it is much easier for an NGO to market basic needs programs than it is to market programs directed at resolving more complicated issues. Because the more complicated issues (for...

by Tiffany Brittingham

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The Other Dream

August 28th marked 50 years since Dr Martin Luther King, jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and explained his dream; an America in which his children would not face the same barriers he did due to the colour of thei...

by Victoria Briggs

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Backwards Is The Future? Women, Tunisia, And Constitutional Debates

Following the Arab Spring, there has been considerable debate on whether women’s rights are under threat from Islamist political parties and the seemingly patriarchal modes of politics they espouse. Despite the very public an...

by Hugh Oberlander

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Was The US justified In Denying A Visa To Iran’s Ambassador To The UN?

The United States and Iran have had a very difficult relationship since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, but things appeared to be improving when a deal was made between world powers over Iran’s nuclear program in November 201...

by John Haltiwanger

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“Development’s Cinderella”

Every woman I know attests to the fact that they absolutely hate the time of the month when they receive their period. It does not matter whether you have access to sanitary pads and tampons, a hot water bottle and pain killers...

by Ruth Nyambura

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Paradise lost: The displacement of Kashmiri pandits

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all the murderers are punished unless they kill in large number and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire On January 19, 1990, the biggest ever exodus of people since the...

by Sneha Nanavati

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Syrian Children Pay the Steep Price of War

During the last 10 years, around 10 million children are estimated to have been killed as a result of war. The Children’s Rights Portal categorizes child war victims as civilian victims, soldiers, displaced, orphans, wo...

by Global Voices

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World Press Freedom Day: The continuing struggle for freedom of the press in Liberia

Changemaker of the Week: De Andre Roberts: Leader of the Second Civil Rights Movement

Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

The Other Dream

Backwards Is The Future? Women, Tunisia, And Constitutional Debates

Was The US justified In Denying A Visa To Iran’s Ambassador To The UN?

“Development’s Cinderella”

Paradise lost: The displacement of Kashmiri pandits

Syrian Children Pay the Steep Price of War

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