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Women

Top 10 Superheroines To Watch Out For Beyond 2014

Think of a movie superhero, and the odds are you will imagine a muscular white man equipped with spandex and a suitable amount of chest hair. But if 2014 is anything to go by, that may be about to change.
by Heenali Patel
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Africa

Boko Haram: Please #BringBackOurGirls

This is going to be an extremely ambitious post. Boko Haram, please #BringBackOurGirls. Or, better still, let them go. Well, you most probably are aware that about 276 school girls in Nigeria were abducted by Boko Haramwho hav...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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PHOTOS: One Palestinian Museum’s Artistic Message To The Pope

The Pope’s visit to the Holy Land (today’s Jordan, Palestine and Israel) has been the focus of many activists hoping to get the Catholic pontiff to speak out in favor of the Palestinian cause. One such symbolic act ...
by Joey Ayoub
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Green

People’s Climate March: A Strategic Action Before UN Climate Summit

Almost 40,000 people marched the streets of London yesterday as one of the largest events of People’s Climate March took place in the capital. Aiming to protest political divestment from the fossil fuel industry and stop ...
by Tímea Fazekas
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Africa

Northern Nigeria: Beyond Bombs, Bullets And Boko Haram

Four months after the Nigerian Government declared a state of emergency in three North Eastern states, international media coverage is zoning in on the atrocities committed by the militant terrorist group Boko Haram, compani...
by Jenny Fawson
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Human Rights

Cyberspace Blocked in Russia

There is an ongoing discussion of the “sites blacklist” created by the Mass Media Inspection Service in Russia on November 1st A new law was introduced in Russia on November 1st which created a list of sites that the govern...
by Ekaterina Mordvinova
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Environment

Drought in the Americas: Equal insecurity?

The American media publishes dozens of articles everyday on what has been the worst drought in decades for the state of California. Photos of the changing Californian landscape have appeared in nearly every major news source. T...
by Taylor Stenberg
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Green

The fall of oil and the environment


The Fall of Oil and the Environment Bane or Blessing? The recent rapid decline of the price of oil, from around $115 per barrel in mid-2014 to below $50 per barrel by August 2015 (Brent Crude), has prompted widespread concerns ...
by Mathias Einberger
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50Days4Gaza: Half the population of children in Gaza suffer post-war trauma

A new study has revealed that 51% of Gaza’s children and 31% of its adults are suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder one year on from Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip. The results were presented by Tays...
by Priyanka Mogul
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