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What Happened to Kony 2012?
Nearly six months before the viral release of the video “Kony 2012” by the non-profit Invisible Children (IC), conservative American pundit Rush Limbaugh was already calling his listeners to attention to the on-goings of Ko...
Climate Change and Its Impact on Food Security
Global warming does more than change climates. It intensifies famine and droughts by shortening the rainy season and drying up lakes. This reduction in resources and livelihoods creates conflicts as people fight over fertile la...
COP20: A five minute history of climate politics
Today begins the UNFCCC’s COP20 which, since the failure of the Copenhagen Accord, will build on the Durban Platform which follows the Bali Roadmap and the Warsaw Outcomes to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Overwhelmed? Fair enou...
Netizens Frown Upon China State TV’s Live Broadcast of Execution
The unprecedented decision of China’s state-run television network to broadcast live the final moments of a Burmese drug lord just before his execution has not only sparked outrage in Myanmar but has also triggered deba...
Obscure realities of “comfort women” of the Japanese Imperial Army
During World War II allegedly 200,000 women and girls were coerced into sexual slavery in the military brothels or “comfort stations” of the Japanese Imperial Army. Euphemistically called “comfort women”, these girls we...
