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Iran
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Is Iran’s Most Believable Presidential Candidate a Fictional Character?

The iron fist of Iran’s regime allows no chance for opposition candidates to run in the presidential election, but in the virtual realm, a new graphic novel character is the champion of a free and fair election. Hundreds ...
by Global Voices
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Chile

WATCH: How Advertising Overthrew a Dictatorship

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet faced international pressure to call a referendum on his presidency. Below is a trailer for the film “NO”, the true story of  a marketing campaign which sparked a...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights

WATCH: The NO Project

“Now You Know” is the latest film for the NO Project, an initiative that taps the artistic skills of young people to raise awareness about human trafficking, with the goal of changing the behaviour that supports it. The fi...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Asia

Thailand’s High School Civic Activism In A Time of Martial Law

These days, you don’t see much idealism or activism among Thailand’s youth—not since a coup last May led to the imposition of martial law. Now that the government has banned public gatherings of five people or mor...
by Zashnain Zainal
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Politics
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Politicians: Delegates or Representatives?

For those readers fortunate enough to live in a representative democracy, a question: do you believe your elected politicians (Congressmen, MPs, Deputies, whatever) should act as your delegates and only vote the way you tell th...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Middle East

WATCH: Syrian Pianist Malek Jandali – “We Need Freedom for True Art”

When Syrians took to the streets in March 2011, they rebelled not only against the ruling Assad family, but also against the obscurantism that had been imposed on them for decades. Art as a whole, and music in particular, have ...
by Syria Untold
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Middle East

Syrian Revolution: The Final Chapter

March of 2011 marked the beginning of the Syrian revolution. The struggle that rages on as I write this article has seen the lives of at least 60, 000 Syrians claimed by the regimes’ war machine. This astonishingly high figur...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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Human Rights

The Land of the Free?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Thu...
by David Bartlett
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Africa

Imagining a ‘new’ Swaziland

The ultimate yardstick for democracy and multi-party politics in Swaziland, once ushered in, will not be the ousting of an undemocratic government. Rather, it will be the strides taken to liberate the people from grinding pover...
by Mark Mngomezulu
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