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Published in: HomeHong Kong’s protest movement must stop ignoring migrant workers
The city's migrant workforce could bolster the protests significantly, but their demands are not being heard.
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Published in: 50.50Anti-LGBTIQ ‘conversion therapy’ occurs worldwide, new study reveals
Activities to ‘cure’ LGBTIQ people are widespread globally, says report, driven by ultra-religious groups and...
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Published in: ourEconomy"It's time to end the gentleman’s agreement" – an open letter to the IMF
Over 100 organisations and academics sign a letter demanding a fair selection process for the next IMF managing director.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The next one hundred years – a salute for Agnes Heller
It is quite wrong to see authoritarianism as harking back to the past. Its threat is built into the times we live in.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat we could learn from lawyers - and from China - about protecting the planet
James Thornton of ClientEarth has fought court cases to challenge government inaction on climate, environment and...
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Published in: HomeNorth Korea’s new missile can reach the US – just what Trump said he’d stop
Kim Jong-un has the bombs to put on it too – but lately it’s all smiles from Donald Trump. Is this a lesson for Iran?
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Published in: ourEconomyWhy central banks need to take human rights more seriously
It's time that central banks developed a better understanding of the social and environmental impacts of their decisions.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We need to look in a different direction to solve the current crisis of liberalism
Can liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?An autonomous Europe for a cooperative world
Only as second best will the EU opt to act alone. By becoming better able to act, Europeans will, by definition, be...
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Published in: HomeJapan's protestors puncture the Western myth of political consensus
Activism is alive and well in Japan, despite a media narrative of a depoliticised society.
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Published in: HomeThailand’s first elections since military coup loosen junta’s grip on power
Despite a rigged constitution, the results have left the junta vulnerable to parliamentary gridlock.
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan and the USA
The war in Afghanistan has been continuing every day for almost forty years. What could bring it to an end?
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Published in: HomeIndia and America collude to disrupt the China-Pakistan economic corridor
Where India is now placed in the warm (yet unreliable) embrace of America, Pakistan finds itself paired with its...
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Published in: Frontline InsightsMeet the artist changing gut reactions to the Philippines ‘war on drugs’
Thousands have been killed and human rights defenders vilified in President Duterte’s campaign. In response, artist...
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Published in: 50.50Why Trump’s US is wrong on abortion – and what it can learn from Rwanda
The US is going after women with harsh abortion laws. But criminalisation only makes abortion unsafe. That’s why...
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Published in: ourEconomyRethinking the World Trade Organisation
The global trading system has long served the interests of global corporations over developing countries. It's time...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe 'Washington Consensus' is dead. But what should replace it?
We need a new vision for global economic governance that is guided by the principle of subsidiarity.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA new chance for climate justice?
New climate movements are talking of equity, not just urgent action. They need to get even bolder about global...
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Published in: ourEconomyMultilateralism is in crisis. Can it be saved?
As leaders gather in Washington DC for the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, openDemocracy and the Bretton Woods...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe IMF and the World Bank: 75 years on
A decade after the financial crisis shook the foundations of the global financial system, the Bretton Woods...