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The Saturday Mothers
To the memory of Mother Berfo who has searched for her disappeared son for thirty years. Mothers will be happy if they can ever find their sons’ remains or learn what happened to them after they were...
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This week's window on the Middle East - December 3, 2012
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week on the democratic rollback which has ignited Egypt's streets: The...
View ArticleBritain’s economy: fog minus zero
An endless recession has changed politics and livelihoods. But in a many-sided national argument there is no consensus about its lessons, says David Hayes."Where everything is bad, it must be good to...
View ArticleGlobal mechanism, regional solution: ending forced sterilisation
For the first time in south-east Asia, an HIV-positive women's group in Indonesia is using the CEDAW Shadow Report to challenge the forced sterilisation and violence against positive women Indonesia,...
View Articleموت أمينة الفيلالي: قصة الزواج من مغتصب
لعدة سنوات ’ طالبت منضمات حقوقية و جمعيات نسائية لتعديل المادة 475 من القانون الجنائي المغربي الذي يعفي المغتصب من العقاب عند زواجه من الضحية. حان الوقت لتغيير هذا القانون الغير المنصف للمرأة و كسر...
View ArticleForced marriage to rapists: the death of Amina El Filali
For years, human rights and women's organizations have been demanding reform of Article 475 of the Moroccan Penal Code which allows rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victim. It is time...
View ArticleMen: time to stand up
For too long the absence of men and boys, as well as the missing component of youth ingenuity and passion, has been an impediment to lasting progress in achieving gender equality and the prevention of...
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Cruel Britannia: a secret history of torture
The hidden story of Britain's torture record has been told for the first time, a hand grenade into the heart of the establishment.Cruel Britannia: a secret history of torture, Ian Cobain, Portobello...
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The moral sadism of the Dutch State
Desperate to eject some refugees it does not want, the Netherlands is refining the art of radical deprivation. No single step, no single decision, no single action in this process is horrible. Yet the...
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Can Europe actually make it?
Between a destroyed economy, blatant institutional dysfunction and fledging popular support, the current picture of the EU looks bleak. But it is not the end of the Union yet!Shutterstock/Gunnar...
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The European Union's social failure
During the current economic crisis, the European Union has focused its efforts on building a financial union – while making next to zero progress on a political or social one. If there is really no...
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Scenes from an uprising: the Kopeysk revolt
A mutiny at a prison camp in the Chelyabinsk region of central Russia has just shaken the country. Olesya Gerasimenko is one of the few journalists whom its director allowed into the penal zone, and to...
View ArticleManifesto for a culture of self-determination
Scotland is at a crossroads. Here are a dozen steps (and an extra one, for luck) that could help Scots forge together a modern, progressive, democratic nation in control of its own future.Introduction:...
View ArticleThe BBC, creativity and the digital age: Brian Eno, Kamila Shamsie, Bill...
Novelist Kamila Shamsie and musician Brian Eno discuss the Corporation and creativity with the two men leading the BBC's internet revolution, Bill Thompson and Tony Ageh. Building on six months of...
View ArticleThe seizure of Goma and proliferating negotiations
How the deep fractures in Congolese politics aided M23's swift invasion of Goma. Français. In April 2012, it was in the Kivus that soldiers from the FARDC defected from the army. The majority were...
View ArticleCan we trust the BBC? Come join a public debate on 10 Dec
OurBeeb invites you to an open discussion on the future of Britain's most important cultural and current affairs institution. How do we re-establish trust between the BBC and the public?The new...
View ArticleLa prise de Goma et la prolifération de négociations
Comment les profondes divisions de la politique Congolaise ont permis aux rebelles du M23 de prendre Goma si rapidement. English.C’est en Avril 2012 que certains militaires de FARDC avaient fait...
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Tariq Ramadan interviewed post-Arab spring
We are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.Heather McRobie: I’d like to...
View ArticlePresident Morsi’s hazardous calculation
Morsi’s announcement has exacerbated the indignation of the opposition which is under the impression it is being blackmailed: either it votes yes on the constitutional referendum, or Morsi keeps...
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Tunisia: Siliana and the heritage of Farhat Hached sixty years after his...
Farhat Hached is still making history in Tunisia, where the government is fixated on shifting Tunisian society in a more religious direction, while failing to address the country’s appalling poverty...
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