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#BringBackOurGirls: Nigerians Demand Release Of 200 Abducted Girls

Nigerians marched through the streets on April 30, 2014 demanding accelerated government action in the release of more than 200 girls abducted by jihadist group Boko Haram. A few weeks ago, armed men abducted the girls, who a...
by Nwachukwu Egbunike
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A Reflection on Blasphemy Laws

The idea of blasphemy, expression that is deemed to insult religion, has shot across the news with the recent release online of the rather amateur film ‘The Innocence of Muslims’. The anti-Islamic film insults the Prophet M...
by Rosanna Rafel
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Hungary’s Latest Elections And The Art Of Creating Electoral Victory

The overwhelming victory of the previously governing Fidesz-KDNP in Hungary`s latest elections last week brought no major surprises. However, how this result is possible in Hungary’s current political and social climate i...
by Tímea Fazekas
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World Water Day – Palestine’s West Bank Running Dry

Another year has passed and 1 billion people in the world still don’t have access to clean water. The struggle for manhood’s most basic resource has earned a day in its honour. In the Middle East, specifically the Levant, w...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Scientists reach breakthrough on HIV treatment, public understanding lags behind

Scientists are a step closer to developing an antibody treatment for HIV, after the first human trial of a new therapy reduced the amount of virus in patients’ blood. A trial of 17 patients demonstrated that a high dose of a...
by Tessa Evans
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Social Experiment Shows Us How Invisible The Homeless Have Become

Would you recognise your wife if you walked by her on the street? What about your sister or your brother? Or your grandmother? A group of people volunteered to disguise themselves as homeless. They then had their unsuspecting r...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Black dolls ‘Queens Of Africa’ outsells Barbie

Until now, most little girls have grown up playing with the infamous Barbie – the white, blonde, blue-eyed beauty, whose body was so perfect that it should have appeared to us as almost creepy. Instead, Barbie was idolised by...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Gender Apartheid in the Saudi State: A Never Ending Saga

As a woman with a driving licence, who enjoys travelling without my father’s permission and one who chooses to bare my face in public, I have always been drawn into the never-ending saga surrounding the women of Saudi Arabia....
by Rosanna Rafel
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India bans BBC documentary in attempt to sweep the rape crisis under the rug

Indian authorities have made the decision to ban the screening of BBC documentary, ‘India’s Daughter’, which was due to be broadcast on 8th March, International Women’s Day. The documentary recounts the ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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