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What Aung San Suu Kyi could do next
Clearly articulating her party’s economics policies would be a good start, reckons Dinyar Godrej.
- Dinyar Godrej
- May 9, 2012
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‘Israel's gone way beyond apartheid’
Frank Barat interviews Jeff Halper, long-time Israeli activist, on the demolition of homes and how to describe the situation in Palestine.
Filed in: Human Rights Israel Palestine
- Frank Barat
- April 26, 2012
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The forgotten 15 per cent – why has disability dropped off the world’s agenda?
Libby Powell looks for some answers.
Filed in: Disability Human Rights
- Libby Powell
- April 13, 2012
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‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
The Wikileaks founder on state surveillance, media scrutiny and the Cablegate affair.
- Jamie Kelsey-Fry
- April 10, 2012
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A World Bank president who’s not a crony or a war criminal?
Wonders will never cease, says Mark Engler.
Filed in: Politics World Bank
- Mark Engler
- April 5, 2012
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Are ordinary Tuaregs becoming Mali conflict scapegoats?
Nick Harvey and Julien Tremblin look at the plight of Tuareg refugees caught in the crossfire of a conflict that’s as devastating as it is complex.
Filed in: Algeria Burkina Faso Conflict Hunger Mali Mauritania Migration Niger Refugees
- Nick Harvey and Julien Tremblin
- March 30, 2012
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Burma: ‘the people aren’t scared anymore’
Pride and optimism – change is in the air, says William Lloyd George on the eve of by-elections in Rangoon.
- William Lloyd George
- March 29, 2012
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The race to beat the West Africa food crisis
More than 13 million people are at risk of hunger in the Sahel. Jack Craze reports on reactions and reasons why.
- Jack Craze
- March 28, 2012
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‘The victims need to be the subject of a campaign, not Kony’
Kony 2012 went uber-viral but how do those affected feel about it? Georgiana Keate speaks to Victor Ochen, who screened the film in Uganda.
Filed in: Human Rights Uganda
- Georgiana Keate
- March 16, 2012
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Witness-art in the Arab Spring
In trying times, poetry can speak our silences and make sense of our pain, says Yahia Lababidi.
- Yahia Lababidi
- March 13, 2012
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