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A Future for Diaspora Women of North Korea?
Can UN Security Council resolutions help? By Betsy A. Kawamura Founder Women4NonViolence in Peace and Conflict Zones www.w4nv.com [email protected] For the last ten years, I have been studying the plight of refugees from the Democratic Republic of North Korea and
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Balancing Act in Tunisia
In 2011, popular protests in Tunisia rid the country of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and towards year end Moucef Marzouki was installed as president of his country. These events provided clear inspiration for the Arab Spring. Mr Marzouki had been
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Dr. Jackson Urges an Holistic Perpective
Few would deny that parts of the capitalist system – in particular its banking and financial services – are in need of urgent attention. We should also be alert to the effects of our continuously increasing demands on the world’s
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Usain Bolt: Nothing Left to Prove?
He has nothing left to prove? Perhaps so, but we identify in Bolt a hunger for continuous improvement. He wants to go on winning and beating his own records. We feel sure that the world will be hearing much more
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Dr. Nawal El Saadawi – An Honourable Life
Like so many of our other heroes, Dr Saadawi has seen the inside of a prison cell because of her views. She was incarcerated in 1981 after helping to publish the feminist magazine Confrontation. The opinions expressed conflicted with those
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Praying for Our Hero, Malala Yousafzai
On Wednesday 10th October this year, surgeons in Pakistan removed a Taliban bullet from the head of our youngest hero – fourteen year old Malala Yousafzai. She was attacked in this way because of her brave response to the atrocities
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