International Political Forum

Send Socks.

Mexico’s migration route, dubbed by some as ‘the most dangerous journey in the world’, holds that unique position as being both a utopian path to paradise, and a perilous obstacle course, littered with the dangers of rape...
 
 
International Political Forum

Cuba And The Con

Cuba is a country with personality to spare. With its legacy in music, dance, rum and revolutionaries, it has a culture and people unlike much else. With all of its unique character, however, it has an array of unique problems....
by Max Horberry
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Argentina vs. Argentina

On October 29th the Argentine Supreme Court ruled that Grupo Clarín, Argentina’s biggest media conglomerate, would have to comply with the 2009 Audio-visual Media Law, concluding a dispute that began four years earlier. Whi...
by Rose Butters
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Colombia’s new cartel?

Colombia has long been known for its drug cartels; and many an article has been scribed in response to this not-so-secret trade that has been (and is still) sweeping the country. What Colombia is not known for is its testigo tr...
 
 
International Political Forum

Ensuring Best Practices In Guatemalan Integration: Guatemalan Or Foreign Responsibility?

As a Canadian grad student interested in Central American integration, I moved to Guatemala for a few months to work on my Masters thesis. I had been studying Guatemalan policy, mining laws and economic issues in Guatemala for ...
by Esma Mneina
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6 Cities Designing Transport For Women

Women and men have different requirements in public space and transport. Which cities out there are acknowledging that? I love British headlines. More often than not, they scream blue murder about something which would seem qua...
by Future Cape Town
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International Political Forum

Water as Our Life Blood: Climate change in South America

Water is life, and it too is being threatened by global warming. The threat to water is much more than droughts and flooding, although it includes those problems also. The threat to water also means rising temperatures in the o...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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WATCH: Living on one dollar

We all know that there are many people in the world who live in poverty. Poverty has become a part of people’s lives even in the most cosmopolitan of cities – but only because we hear about it so much and are urged ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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World Food Day: Not Everybody’s Lovin’ It

With over 33,000 branches worldwide, over one million employees, an average of 58 million guests per day and an estimated annual revenue of $30 billion, it is one of the biggest and most successful transnational companies. No m...
by Lea Atzinger
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