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COP19: Day One
The tragedy in South East Asia was fore in the minds of those at COP19. Parties offered sympathy and solidarity at the first plenary session. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that the typhoon is the most rece...
COP19: Filipino typhoon encore
For the second year in a row, UN climate change negotiations take place in the wake of a typhoon striking the Philippines. Last year at the COP18 in Doha, the Filipino climate commissioner, Naderev (otherwise known as Yeb) Sañ...
Worldwide outrage over denationalisation of Dominicans of Haitian descent
Sentence No.168-2013 (PDF) [es], dictated by the Dominican Constitutional Court, has turned the international community on its head. The polarisation within the country has also become more palpable, and debates seen in soci...
Dropping Bombs then Dropping Aid – America’s Dirty Secret in Laos
When Laos is viewed from above, the number of craters appear to rival the face of the moon, but these were not made by natural causes. Instead they are the scars that bear testimony to the “secret” war waged by the American...
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...
Hetty Bower, Political Activist, Dies Aged 108
Hetty Bower was born in 1905 and throughout her life campaigned for numerous causes that she believed in from the suffragette movement to the 1926 General Strike, the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, being a founding member of the ...
