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Myanmar: A brighter future sparkling on the horizon?
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The spotlights of the international world are fully shining on Myanmar, or Burma, because of some major breakthroughs. The country has been under military rule for almost fifty years, but last year signalled a great change as the first nominally civi...
Femen: ‘come, get topless and win’
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How does one imagine a feminist movement? Traditionally feminist movements have been about campaigning for reproductive rights, equal pay, women’s suffrage, protesting to increase awareness of sexual harassment, domestic violence and many other iss...
Freedom on the Internet
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Dissecting the SOPA and PIPA bills. Except for fame, what do celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift have in common? Well, alongside with the Sony Corporation, all four have officially been made targets by a hacktiv...
War criminals and the ‘Hague Hilton’
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Charles Taylor, Ratko Mladić and Ante Gotovina are just a few who are detained by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands. ICC has the authority to investigate and prosecute those accused of genocide, crimes against huma...
Happy Holidays!
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Thank you all for a wonderful fall together. Thank you all readers, writers, editors and proof readers. We will be back next year with a surprise! All the best, Edith & Cecilia...
Australia’s Asylum-Seeker “Problem”
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Although Australia is a nation conceived and developed by immigrants, the contemporary political climate towards asylum-seekers is one of hostility—a hostility that has seeped into the Australian population. The recent failed attempt by the Austral...
Lee Teng-hui and Taiwan’s independence
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Mr. Democrazy and his way of approaching Taiwan’s independence The question of Taiwan’s independence from mainland China still remains unsolved. For centuries throughout its history, Taiwan has been occupied and oppressed by various colonial p...
South Sudan: Darkness after the Dawn
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A new dawn for a new country. After fifty years of bitter struggle, South Sudan officially became an independent nation on 9th July 2011. It has been a tough five months for the South since its independence. The challenges facing the new country are...
After the Egyptian Elections
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- Winners and Losers Many international and domestic political observers have watched the Egyptian parliamentary elections with hope. This round of parliamentary elections came to bridge a gap of trust between the national Egyptian institutions and...
The Eastern Partnership and the Danish EU Presidency
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The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is the part of the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy facing towards East. Poland, who is holding the EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2011, has managed to develop it to a successful ANEDD important pr...
“You can listen, you can talk”
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- Music and Politics in China A few years ago a sleazy, run down bar called D22 was one of the few places where Chinese underground bands in the capital could get a chance to try their wings. Its location in the middle of Beijing’s northwestern...
Chinese Youth Culture
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In the West, it is commonly believed that a thriving music scene goes hand in hand with criticism of the established political system. One would think that this would be the same in China, where youth culture and music has exploded in the past decade...
China’s Increasing Impact on Africa
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China’s economy has grown rapidly over the last two decades. Due to this growth, the standard of living has improved in China. At the same time, African exports to Asia have grown by at least 10 percent every year since the early 1990s, and Chinese...
The DRC Elections
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November 28th marked the beginning of the second democratic general election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, since the end of the Congo Wars. Although this large African country is rich in mineral resources its GDP is only $300 per capita a...
The onset of Mexican Drug Cartels
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– A threat for the development in Central America In May 2011, 27 people were murdered – most of them beheaded – at a ranch situated in the Peten province, close to Mexico’s border to Guatemala. The killings were carried out by member...
A Turn to the Right – The Guatemalan Elections
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Every fourth year the western media massively mobilize to cover every single detail of the presidential election of the United States of America. Meanwhile, other states hold elections that pass by without anyone taking notice. One of these countries...
Occupation Movement grows bigger
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More than two months have passed since activists started demonstrating against social and economic inequalities in Zucotti Park, Wall Street, New York. Now the so called Occupy Wall Street movement has grown and become known globally. Critics say tha...
Women’s Rights in Pakistan – Interview with Hina Jilani
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Last week Hina Jilani was invited by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Lund University to give a lecture in the memory of the late Swedish Foreign Minister – Anna Lindh. Ms. Jilani has been fighting for the human rights for over 30 years, not...
Ukraine – Lost in transition
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The trials of Ukrainian opposition leaders, Yuliya Tymoschenko (Former Prime Minister, imprisoned for 7 years) and Yuriy Lutsenko (Former Minister of Internal Affairs, still on trial), have become controversial not only in Ukraine, but around the wor...
Elections in Egypt
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A step towards or away from democracy The ‘Arabic Spring’, also called the ‘Facebook/Twitter Revolution’ brought down many regimes in the Arab World. The wave of revolution started in Tunisia, but spread as a wildfire to North Africa and the...
