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Africa

How Female Genital Cutting is Ending

Female genital cutting (FGC) is a harmful practice involving the forcible removal of a girl’s genitals. In Africa alone, 30 million girls are at risk of being cut over the next decade, and up to 125 million women and girls ...
by Julia Lalla-Maharajh
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Europe
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The Death And Gloom Of Donetsk And Gaza

There were two headline-grabbing events on Thursday, July 17: the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17, presumably by separatists in eastern Ukraine, and the beginning of Israel’s ground assault into the Gaza Strip. While the for...
by Sean Guillory
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Human Rights

The abducted assyrians and the fight against the Islamic State

The Islamic State has released 19 Assyrians after they abducted an estimated 220 members of an Assyrian community in Northern Syria. The abduction is just one in a staggering series of attacks towards Christian communities in t...
by Bauke Danielle Schram
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Armenia

Armenia’s genocide

In an address to a group of Nazi leaders and Wehrmacht Generals in 1939, the German Führer, Adolf Hitler was reported to have said: “Who, after all, speaks today about the annihilation of the Armenians…….?” The...
by Samson Faboye
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Middle East

Could Rebels be Syria’s Solution?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”icon_link”] With “Operation Damascus Volcano” under way, it is clear that opposition forces, ar...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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Development
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A Return To Public Diplomacy In The Middle East

Syria’s ongoing deadly civil war, Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and a renewed focus to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are the three main diplomatic maneuvers currently at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy in ...
by Brigid Skorup
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Human Rights

#HumanitarianHeroes: Celebrating The Heroes Of Our Time

It seems as though every day we wake up to the news of more death, destruction, and suffering. Whether it’s the cause of war, natural disasters or famine, there are currently 108 million people who are in need of humanitarian...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Afghanistan

‘The Base With No Foundation’

Fawaz Gerges, a prominent Middle Eastern scholar, notes that there exists a ‘terrorism narrative’ in the West. Amongst government officials and the wider public, the notion of imminent terrorist attack seems institutionali...
by Finlay Shaw
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Iraq

UNESCO’s “Unite4Heritage” Campaign: Effective in the Middle East?

‘Syrian citizens were bent over, crumbled to the floor in rubble and crying for the loss they felt from seeing their buildings and monuments destroyed. These brave people had risked their own lives to try to save these ...
by Flo Carson
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