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Why haven’t feminists noted that the film is too Western and too white?
The Great Mosque of Mosul - with its iconic leaning minaret - appeared on one of Iraq’s banknotes. Its destruction by the Islamic State is an act of great symbolic importance.
A crackdown on the beef and leather trades has put hundreds of thousands of Indian Muslims and Dalits out of work, vexing already-tense religious relations and hurting India’s economy.
Mummies are scary but they also fascinate us, giving us the feeling that we can vanquish time by preserving our most perishable feature: flesh.
NASA’s Kepler Mission has identified thousands of exoplanets but leaves a lot of questions about alien worlds.
Côte d'Ivoire’s government needs to provide different incentives and opportunities to former combatants.
Sometimes people like poetic justice because the law is not in a position to mete out what is deserved.
What’s on your cash? Studies show our money carries everything from pet DNA and old food to E.coli and traces of cocaine.
In some places, the dismal labour conditions of young academics have spurred them to unionise. Not so in the Czech Republic, where students and intellectuals lead lives of “state-ordered poverty”.
Yes, sign language has grammar – and it goes way beyond what you do with your hands.
The World Bank meets 2017 with a new face and that face is – for better or worse – worn by Jim Yong Kim.
Apartheid was to officially end in 1994. So was the fashion of wearing hats as the formalities of business, church and leisure gave way to the informality of urban equality.
South Africa’s democracy is in trouble. But the challenge is less about who should control state institutions, and more about how they can be refashioned to deliver to the poor.
There are refugees, there are migrants and then there are the millions of people who live in legal limbo because they defy easy categorisation. But everyone is just looking for a place to call home.
Accused of cooperating with smugglers, NGOs defend migrants’ right to life and point to the inadequate policies of European states.
Qatar withdrawing its troops has reignited tensions between Eritrea and Djibouti which the UN and African Union are trying to mediate. This comes as Eritrea is also embroiled in the Yemen civil war.
The African court has demonstrated its autonomy in a continent where judicial independence remains shaky in many states.
New Zealand just conferred personhood upon the Whanganui River, giving it standing to legally defend its rights. Can this novel strategy save the environment?
India’s advertisements not only challenge but also reverse the dominant roles that Indian men assume with the women in their lives.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, University College Dublin
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Distinguished visiting professor, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Tony Walker adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
