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China’s trade-off: Economic growth versus migrant welfare

Migrants in China often have to work long hours, are underpaid and are hired illegally, not bound by an authorised labour contract. Having to work in hazardous work conditions, sometimes with only a few days off a year, fallin...
by Helen Hawgood
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Human Rights

WATCH: What Happens to Children After They’ve Been Rescued From Human Trafficking?

The international trade in children is perhaps the darkest aspect to human trafficking. According to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, “children are trafficked for forced labour, domestic wo...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights

Did Torture Cost American Lives?

“The enemy is the enemy, until he becomes my prisoner,” I remember Lieutenant General Hal Moore saying, “then he is my responsibility”. Moore was with co-author Joe Galloway at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1993. They were talki...
by Christopher Kolenda
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Celebrating differences: The significance of the United Nations today

For sixty eight years, the United Nations had pledged to abide by these principles, rooted in which they’ve strengthened their foundational base. While it sustained humanity from meeting its ultimate collapse in the event of ...
by Arpita Mitra
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Africa

Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

VIDEO LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/700-migrants-feared-dead-mediterranean-shipwreck-worst-yet As the voyage for seeking a better life for many migrants led them to their untimely death in the Mediterranean...
by Paridhi Singh
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If I Were A Dictator, I Would Consider You My Enemy

This post is part of a special series of articles by blogger and activist, Marcell Shehwaro, describing the realities of life in Syria during the ongoing armed conflict between forces loyal to the current regime, and those seek...
by Marcell Shehwaro
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Wrestling with the Far-Right: Greece, Europe, and Neo-Fascism

On The 18th of September, Giorgos Roupakias, a member of Golden Dawn, stabbed the anti-fascist musician Pavlos Fyssass in the heart. Events have moved rapidly since the brutal street murder. Six MPs including its leader Nikos M...
by Hugh Oberlander
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Banning Uganda From The 2014 Commonwealth Games In Glasgow

There is much pressure from the international community to stop Uganda from participating in the 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow. This is because Uganda has undermined human rights by denying gay people the power to marry wh...
by Harriet Owalla
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Europe

When Reality TV Meets Humanitarian Action in Italy

RAI 1, the flagship television channel of the national public service broadcaster and the most watched channel in Italy, is developing a humanitarian aid show in reality form. The first episode is planned to be broadcast next 4...
by Anna Gueye
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