Understanding the meaning of ‘shell-shocked’ in a context of war, conflict and gross human rights violations often allows us to negotiate with a complex of emotions and stories that move beyond journalistic ethos of ‘obje...
On Wednesday October 24th, the employees of the Ford factory in Genk, Belgium were given the news that the factory will be closed, and all employees will have to find another job by 2014. This obviously directly affects the 4.2...
Africa has contributed the least to global warming among the seven continents, but it is the worst affected by climate change effects and this is projected to get even worse in the future. Adaptation to climate change has faced...
For the British press, mocking politicians is a serious business. Journalistic satire – mercilessly rubbishing the airs and graces of the House of Commons’ finest – is as English as morning toast, afternoon te...
A little more than 15 years ago, Sweden passed a new revolutionary law to tackle its prostitution problem. The law, named ‘sexköpslagen‘ [Sex Purchase Act] in Swedish, was an exercise in thinking outside the box an...
Human imagination has created a million ways to reach the divine saviour. However, we are only aware of the hegemonic presence of the major religions. For the rest, there exists a covert censorship.
Brazilians reelected Dilma Rousseff as president on Sunday in the most competitive vote since the end of the country’s military dictatorship and the beginning of direct elections in 1989. The incumbent from the Workers’...
A video showing a young Dutch man talking about Moroccans, and why he thinks that extreme-right politician Geert Wilders is correct in saying that they should return to what he thinks it their ‘home’, went viral a...
If 2014 was an historic year for climate change, where the world dug deeper into its resolve not to collectively fight it. Yet despite the worsening snowstorms and stranded polar bears, more extreme climate activity, and the pa...