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Published in: Pandemic BordersVulnerable and unprotected in the US: it only takes political will
The temporary status of uncertainty and vulnerability in the face of COVID-19 is akin to what hundreds of thousands...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil and the COVID-19 disaster: the current dystopia must be overcome
The time has come to build utopias that are capable of overcoming Bolsonaro’s dystopia, which has been accentuated...
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Published in: 50.50While the world is busy with the virus, Israel is annexing the West Bank
Foreign volunteers are not allowed into Palestine and we have few donations, so it is very difficult to run my...
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Published in: oDRUkraine's surrogate mothers struggle under quarantine
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that Ukraine's international surrogacy industry desperately needs to change.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France gives a little over George Floyd
“That excruciating eight and a half minute long video of George Floyd's slow, gasping passage from life to oblivion...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionUruguay’s ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women is out of control
The ‘Switzerland of Latin America’ is proud of its COVID-19 response. But almost 80% of women have experienced...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersForeign-trained doctors are untapped resource in pandemic fight
Canada has thousands of qualified doctors and nurses who could help our strained health system now and in the future...
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Published in: ourEconomyCash, Kisses and Karaoke: Why the War on Covid must not become a War on Cash
Covid-19 will be mobilised by the financial industry to push its War on Cash even further, leaving us ever more...
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Published in: HomeHart Island: New York City’s dark shadow
Being Hart Island, the proposed park – given the racist title ‘Negro Coney Island’ – was to be solely for black...
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Published in: 50.50ԱՄՆ-ը դադարեցնում է ապատեղեկատվություն տարածած հայկական կայքի ֆինանսավորումը
openDemocracy-ի հետաքննությունից հետո ՀՀ-ում ԱՄՆ դեսպանությունը դատապարտել է ապատեղեկատվության տարածումը և նշել, որ...
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Published in: 50.50US ends funding for Armenian website that spread COVID-19 misinformation
Following an openDemocracy investigation, the US ambassador to Armenia condemns disinformation and says the embassy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Four invisible enemies in the first pandemic of a “datafied society”
COVID-19 lays bare the nuances of a society undergoing digital data transformation in nearly every field of human...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersImmigrants are not to blame for global epidemics: insights from past and present
That immigrants have been singled out as disease-carriers is not surprising given the long, ugly history of...
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Published in: HomeUnder pressure, UK government releases NHS COVID data deals with big tech
Hours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon,...
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Published in: 50.50Sex workers abandoned as COVID crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts
Controlling COVID-19 is worsening Africa’s HIV epidemic and destroying HIV services, with sex workers facing...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe post-pandemic future will be green or there won’t be a future
The world has changed with Covid-19. We should seize the opportunity. As much as we dream of returning to a lost...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersMigrants face a dilemma during COVID-19: uncertainty at home or abroad?
As the world economy struggles, more migrants are forced to return home or revisit their plans taken before the pandemic.
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Published in: ourEconomyTermite Capitalism: how private equity is undermining the economy
From care homes to our high streets, private equity is corroding the foundations of society from within. It must be...
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Published in: 50.50Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sex
I’m a sex worker in South Africa. Sex usually costs 70 Rand (about $5), but now I have to accept almost half that,...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe revolution is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans
The Black Lives Matter protests are distracting me from everything else in my life. And that’s a good thing.