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Confessing The Sins Of Consociationalism: Democracy in Lebanon
Lebanon has been debating the creation of a new electoral system since the end of its civil war in 1990, but with new elections scheduled for 2014, the country needs to reach a decision on how it plans to reform group represent...
WATCH: The Big Racism Experiment
The lazy, ignorant Blue Eyes vs. the superior Brown Eyes Thirty unsuspecting young people enter an old factory-like building. They signed up to participate in a TV-show without any prior knowledge about its content. Soon enough...
US Stops UNESCO Funds – Losing Voting Rights…And Credibility?
Last week, on November 8th, America failed to meet the deadline to pay its dues to UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, therefore losing voting rights and creating a stir amongst the international community. Th...
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...
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: Intellectual property rights with Pachauri
In an interview with The Verb, Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), has called for greater collaboration between organisations from all over the world in the development of new...
