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Human Rights

Without a home, without a solution: Short-term fixes won’t solve the world’s refugee crises

Recently, a destabilising and disturbing trend has been proliferating throughout all corners of the globe. This year has seen record numbers of refugees fleeing economic hardship, political prosecution, and vicious attacks in c...
by Jamal Russell Black
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Eurasia

A brief overview and contextualization of the Ukrainian crisis

On November 21, 2013, a chain of events began which have resulted in a crisis that many consider to be the most pressing threat to global stability today. When Ukraine’s ex-president Viktor Yanukovych suspended involvemen...
by Cody Wooden
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Asia

The secret killings of Assam: skeletons from the closet

Dr Dharanidhar Das was my parents’ classmate in high school. A shy, quiet, intelligent man who spent more time with his poetry than his medical books. This man was the leprosy doctor in Juluki in the village of Barama, invol...
by Priyanka Dass Saharia
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Africa

Mali’s truce

After surviving a rebellious scare that threatened the existence of the Nationhood of Mali in 2012, the country is back on the track to finding lasting peace; a peace which is not owed to French Military intervention that save...
by Samson Faboye
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Middle East

Regional Developments In The Battle For Syria

In an unfolding tragic tale of twists and turns, the Syrian conflict has transmuted from that of a show of solidarity for the Arab Spring in 2011 to that of a continuous conflagrative self-destruction perpetrated by several arm...
by Samson Faboye
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Colombia

Colombia: The year of peace?

For the first time in a half-century-long conflict, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) agreed on 20 December 2014 to a unilateral and indefinite ceasefire.
by Leonardo Goi
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Video & Photography

Wounded: The Legacy Of War Exhibition

Around the end of last month, London’s Somerset House exhibited an array of photographs of young British servicemen and women who have sustained severe wounds in a collection by Bryan Adams, named “Wounded: The Lega...
by Ijeoma Okoye
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Asia

It is time to end World War II: Russia, Japan, and the Occupied Islands

August 9, 1945. The day the “Fat Man” atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki, and the day that – keeping his promise to the Allies – Stalin entered the war against Japan, creating a territorial dispute lasting to this day. Sovi...
by Jeroen Gelsing
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Israel

Palestinian Activists Break Through Israeli Wall To Commemorate 25 Years Since Fall Of Berlin Wall

A group of young Palestinian activists have sledgehammered a hole into a separation barrier between the West Bank and Israel to mark 25 years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
by Heenali Patel
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