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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLocked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between
While the situation in Libya is bleak overall, it remains exceptionally desperate for the refugees and migrants who...
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Published in: ourEconomyIntroducing the Wire International
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionSome people eat wild animals. Don't blame them for the pandemic
Speculation, half-truths, deliberate misrepresentations, Western prejudices, and the specter of ecofascism could...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLibya’s forgotten half: between conflict and pandemic, women pay the higher price
Now more than ever, the country needs everyone’s contribution to survive the upcoming changes.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDoes anyone remember the chemical attacks on Sudanese civilians?
In 2016, Omar al-Bashir's government committed yet another war crime in Darfur by using poisonous gas against...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid-19 and agriculture: the coming contradictory hunger pandemic
To conceptualize agriculture as a way of catering to the needs of the many, while protecting what is left of nature,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDetainees in Libya need protection: they must be released now
The right to health and life of detainees in Libya must be protected especially in times of pandemic.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDespite COVID-19, Libya war rages with civilians at risk
After years of getting away with their crimes, armed groups in Libya continue to destroy the country’s fragile...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow Africa is leading the way to a zero waste future
From Egypt to Tanzania, public waste management schemes are offering green alternatives to privatisation.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: a brutal history of state encounters
Egyptian photographer and director Shady Habash’s death in prison is one in a long history of state brutality in the country.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA Libya story: pandemic and human rights in times of conflict
How does a fragmented state fight a global pandemic?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPeople in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system
Far from being the 'great leveller', COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities.
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Published in: 50.50Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or work
I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionCoronavirus must not repeat the injustice of AIDS treatment – particularly for Africans
My uncle helped develop life-saving AIDS drugs, then died when he couldn’t afford them. This cannot happen again. Español
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA call from North Africa: sovereignty over our land, food and destiny
The only solution before us is unity and solidarity in order to build a new world in which people’s sovereignty,...
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Published in: ourEconomyWill Zimbabwe’s diamonds be forever? A glimpse into a nation’s resource rich curse
Murky deals with Russian and Chinese firms mean super-exploitation in Zimbabwe's communities and super-profits for...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe need to ramp up global public spending to fight COVID-19
The pandemic has shown us that global solidarity is not a nice idea – it is a necessity.
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Published in: 50.50Alarm as 2 billion people have parliaments shut or limited by COVID-19
Democracy groups warn of 'significant risks' to rights around the world as a growing number of parliaments shut down...
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Published in: Home: OpinionShaping a new social contract through the pandemic
The actions of governments, business, investors and civil society in response to COVID-19 will shape our futures.
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Published in: 50.50Family offers no solace
How can LGBTIQ people find solace in family or religion when these are the sources of our pain? #HumansofCOVID19