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Climate Summits Under the Auspices of Corporations

This week another annual climate summit begins. The media, as usual, do not show much interest in this issue; the issue that is already changing the quality of life of millions. Sometimes, it is incomprehensible why the leaders...
by Lívia Magdošková
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Asia
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Young, Hip And Worshipping Shiva In India

Is Shiva the cool god of the younger generation? The Hindu deity appears these days on television, in books, movies and even on tattoos. Popular Indian cricket star, Ravindra Jadeja, who has more than 112,000 Twitter followe...
by Global Voices
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Africa

Rwanda-DR Congo Rebel Support Conflict: The Heart of the Matter

In his book “Politics”, Aristotle argued that man is a political animal, whose motive for action and reaction is ruled by need for wealth, safety and liberty. Aristotle goes on to argue that any state is like a united commu...
by Ivan Atuyambe
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French Hypocrisy

The French authorities have prohibited a public demonstration in support of the Palestinians in Gaza victims of Israeli aggression. The country which prides itself on its defense of human rights is turning a blind eye to the su...
by Nadim Souss
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Politics

Voting Without Democracy?

Youth participation is a trendy topic today. If you want to be considered an active youth, you are supposed to vote. Still, I believe it is proof of courage to dare say out loud that you do not vote. The reasons why I do not vo...
by Luciana Grosu
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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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Eurasia

Ukraine On The Edge of Civil War

The situation in the Eastern Ukraine is creating a concern among Western leaders, especially in central Europe and Baltic states. It is constantly changing. The pro-Russian separatist groups create chaos on streets of Donetsk,...
by Mateusz Krupczyński
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Asia
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This Woman Marched Thousands Of Kilometers Across Pakistan For Her Brother And Balochistan’s Missing People

Disappearances are not uncommon in Balochistan, where Baloch nationalists are fighting an armed resistance against the Pakistani state. Yet, the tale of “missing people” in Pakistan’s largest province remains one of th...
by Jahanzeb Hussain
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Human Rights

International day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the holocaust

Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire...
by Sneha Nanavati
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