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Excluded at the ballot box: what stops people voting around the world and how to fix it
As the US election campaign nears its end point, one thing about the result is certain: a lot of people won’t vote. Turnout at the 2016…
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Rape and impunity (not only) in Bangladesh
Last month in Bangladesh, a video showing the gang rape of a 37-year old woman went viral on Facebook. Eight men implicated in the crime were…
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Arab youth survey should serve as a wake-up call
Should we be in the least bit surprised at the huge number of Arabs who want to emigrate from the region, particularly from the Levant? What…
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War has broken out on the edge of Europe. What’s behind it?
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a mostly forgotten tragedy, with high human cost and a labyrinth of differing viewpoints A tragedy is unfolding on the edge of…
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Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme can’t build peace on its own
By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the eyes of…
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Liberty Has Been Taken Away from Hong Kong
Fear, dissent, and undervalued or devaluation of what French philosopher called – domestic social contract between Hong Kong citizens and mainland Chinese government appears to be…
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The Anglo sphere: The great power alliance right under Washington’s nose
As George Orwell so sagely put it, “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Sadly, this is a battle most…
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Bangladesh’s false impression of women’s empowerment
Despite a rather glowing report from the WEF, a sense of impunity has put women in the country more at risk When Myanmar in 2017 launched…
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The other pandemic
Spanish politics is as destructive as the coronavirus. There will one day be a vaccine against the latter, but there seems to be no remedy for…
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5 Years On, Russia’s Syria Intervention Poses More Questions Than Answers
Russia joined the fighting in Syria under the pretext of preventing the spread of terrorism on its own territory. The result, however, is that a whole…
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No good or safe choices at Myanmar’s election
A Covid-19 outbreak and voter apathy guarantee a low turnout and weaker democratic mandate for the winner of Nov 8 polls Myanmar is heading to polls…
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How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover
The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and…
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A Boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics Would Work
There is a massive overlap between Western liberal democracies and medal contenders in the Winter Games – enough to gut Beijing’s Olympic dreams. As China’s dismal…
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The Quad was made for 2020
The ‘Quad’ meeting of Indian, Japanese, US and Australian foreign ministers in Tokyo earlier this week has resulted in the usual suspects saying the usual things.…
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A hero in the fight against the world’s longest-running pandemic
For the last 25 years, Dr. Firdausi Qadri has advocated for an affordable vaccine to save lives from cholera. While all of us are focused on…
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Can we bank on the Quad?
Foreign ministers from Australia, the United States, Japan and India met in Tokyo on Tuesday for what was only the second formal ministerial meeting of the…