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Cuba’s new economic reforms: What’s really changing?
Within the next few months the Cuban government will ditch the Cuban convertible peso (CUC), one of the country’s two currencies, and one which is pegged to the US dollar. The CUC is designed to separate the heavily subsidi...
Silent No More: Lebanon’s Migrants Fight the Kafala System
On the 14th of March 2012, a woman named Alem Dechasa committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at Der El-Salib mental hospital. Four days prior, as witnessed by an amateur video, she was kidnapped by her owner, her ma...
Putting an End to Racial Stereotypes Amid a Broken U.S. Criminal Justice System
I have witnessed, on numerous occasions, New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in plainclothes stopping and frisking African-American and Latino youth on the street corners and subway stations of East Harlem, where I have ...
Drones: A Terror in the Sky
The near constant presence of CIA drones “terrorises” much of the civilian population of Pakistan’s tribal areas according to a new report. Men, women, and children are subjected to almost constant trauma – including fe...
Daily News Roundup – 10 October 2012
Europe German law to explicitly legalise circumcision The German government is to present new legislation intended to end a legal dispute over the religious tradition of circumcision. In June this year, a regional cour...
Violence Against Women of the DRC
Violence against women occurs in countries all around the world. Whether your country is rich or poor, developed or developing, you’re living in the “good” area of town or “bad,” it exists around you. As women, we are...
