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Daily News Roundup – 23 July 2012
Europe Markets rattled by more speculation over Spain’s regional debts Heavily indebted regional governments in Spain are at the centre of fears that they will push the national government into seeking a bailout for th...
COP20: Day 5 – Storm on the water
As Friday’s sun rose over the vast Pacific ocean to light up the Western shores of Lima, a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) put the state of the ongoing international climate negotiations in a new...
A View On “Voluntourism”
Having written about the dangers of short term volunteering, I found myself in Brazil this summer hoping to do precisely that. The proviso was that I made sure to follow my own advice and thoroughly investigate any volunteer o...
Egypt: Ending the Social Acceptability of Sexual Harassment
Egypt, the third most populated country in Africa has been a pace-setter to the African continent, be it technology, agriculture, the famous Arab uprising among other accolades. Sadly, human rights violations as well as sexual ...
Indonesia’s virginity tests: A growing women’s rights violation
Indonesia’s city of Jember recently proposed imposing a state-sponsored two-finger test to check for the virginity of female high school students, preventing those who have engaged in pre-marital sex from receiving their ...
Guinea-Bissau: The Failed State You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
If popular online quiz website, Sporcle, is anything to go by, there is a chance you have never heard of Guinea-Bissau. Yet the West African state, situated between Senegal and Guinea, has been declared the continent’s first ...
