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Why public spaces matter in the Twitter revolution, and how they are under threat
For anyone who now questions the uses of Twitter or Facebook, or dismisses them as trivial and unimportant, point them to the Arab Spring. Point them to Tripoli and Tunis, to the fall of Mubarak and the loosening of Assad’s i...
Thai Coup Leads To Exodus Of More Than 180,000 Cambodian Migrant Workers
Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers and their families have fled Thailand in the past two weeks after Thai coup leaders issued a warning that they will launch a crackdown against illegal foreign workers. Ac...
Making ‘Invisible Women’ Visible
Thanks to its pull as a global hub of trade, finance and technology, London has a huge pull for economic migrants, from both within and outside of the country. Foreign workers in London are particularly concentrated in certai...
Violence Against Women on the Sidewalk
“You’ve got great legs, baby!” a 43-year-old man told Brittney, a 15-year-old girl, as she waited for the subway on her way to school in New York City, New York. Disgusted, she said, “Excuse me, you probably have a daug...
Daily News Roundup – 18 September 2012
Europe Mark Duggan “give loaded gun” before police shooting A loaded handgun was given to Mark Duggan 15 minutes before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham last year – the incident over which a protest was held tha...
Opening the Future of Friendship: Northeast Asia must learn from lessons of WW2
At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
