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Can emerging powers break out of narrow strategic imperatives and reboot the...
The ability of India, Brazil and South Africa to emerge as moral voices from the south to reclaim the human rights narrative is not in doubt, but their willingness to take the global centre-stage is...
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Transformation seeks a social media intern. We will pay you, you won't have to make tea. Transformation tells the stories of people who are combining personal and social change in order to re-imagine...
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Human chain demanding the Basque right to decide gathers 150,000
On the 8 June 2014, thousands of citizens from the Basque Country demanded the right to decide their future by creating a human chain of 123 kilometres between the town of Durango and the city of...
View ArticlePredictive policing: mapping the future of policing?
New predictive policing technologies seem to promise crime reduction. But predictive policing also threatens the extension of policing biases; risks to privacy emergent from the data gathering...
View ArticleMigration and class - an honest discussion
There is a need to have an open and honest debate about migration and its effect on the UK. The first hurdle however is to be honest about people’s collective and individual agency.The popular...
View ArticleWill the new government and local councils improve service delivery in Malawi?
Local administration and service provision are failing in Malawi. What can the government do to improve them?Local administration and service provision are failing in Malawi. Overall human development...
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China's subversive propaganda war against the Dalai Lama
The Chinese government is engaged in an intense propaganda war to disrupt or prevent the Dalai Lama's visits to every country he travels to.The Dalai Lama meets with President Obama during his visit to...
View ArticleMob sex attacks and the everyday reality of street children in Egypt
What the revolutionary class are experiencing in Egypt now is only the initiation of what thousands of children on our streets, boys and girls experience.I read the papers and online testimonials of...
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South Ossetia’s unwanted independence
South Ossetians may yearn for union with Russia, but the complicated political realities of the South Caucasus make this an unlikely prospect.The crisis in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine has been...
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Moroccan political cinema and the Arab Spring: an interview with Hicham Lasri
I was interested by the electricity in the air, the aggression and the disarray of those in power.Gillo Pontecorvo’s the Battle of Algiers is widely cited as the example of politically engaged cinema...
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Populist snapshots: Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) in the European Parliament
This article looks at the basic framing devices of the Austrian Freedom Party's rhetoric in the European parliament, and some of their debates. It is taken from a Counterpoint series on populist...
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Safe white hands: Hollywood's problem with minorities in film
White men make films about the emancipatory struggles of everybody else. The final article in Transformation's liberation series.Actor Idris Elba and director Justin Chadwick on the set of Mandela....
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The oldest auction house in India
This is no longer a stream of precious collectibles: it’s mainly junk. But the brothers are still determined to trade like gold merchants, like they are living in the city they knew as children. Film...
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Whither Europe? The Modest Camp vs the Federalist Austerians
Proposals are multiplying – especially as evidence mounts that the crisis is continuing, despite all the official announcements of its end. Why not save Europe today, so that we can consider, in due...
View ArticleWhat is the US administration’s alternative to elections it does not...
It is in everyone’s long-term interest to stop purposefully undermining developing democratic processes. Most western governments and some observers argue that the elections that took place in Syria on...
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The limitations of Russian propaganda in Ukraine
Russian TV is waging a propaganda war against Ukraine. But is it working?The long propaganda campaign waged by Russian television channels against Ukraine’s political leadership and the West is...
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Transnistria is a bridge too far for Russia
The breakaway republic – de facto state – of Transnistria has steadily been edging closer and closer to Russia, but the Kremlin does not seem all that enthusiastic.Shortly after Russia’s annexation of...
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Brazil: a country of jangled nerves
As the World Cup opens, few Brazilians are heading for the beach to samba: behind the stereotype is a country which has accumulated a perfect storm of social and economic insecurities.Round ball or...
View ArticleFor Spanish democrats, this is the time to demand the reinstatement of the...
The monarchy in Spain is an institution that is intimately linked with the fascist regime of General Franco. Spain’s democrats must now push for the return of the republic more than ever.Spain’s King...
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In Africa, human rights and religion often go together
In Africa and other regions in the global South, religion and human rights support similar values. For years, religion has helped disenfranchised groups the way human rights activists now hope to do....
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