International report - Ukraine elections: operation dignity
The 2014 Ukrainian Euromaidan revolution, also known as the Revolution of Dignity, saw thousands of people take to the streets denouncing the kleptocratic government of then president Viktor...
View ArticleInternational report - Irina Dovgan, tortured by separatists, warns of...
In 2014 during the conflict in eastern Ukraine a photo of Irina Dovgan appeared in the New York Times. It shows a terrified woman wrapped in a Ukrainian flag while tied to lamppost and forced to...
View ArticleInternational report - Ukraine elections: The plight of IDPs
Since the start of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, some 1.5 million people have been internally displaced, fleeing the conflict in the eastern regions. Ukraine is the ninth largest country in the...
View ArticleInternational report - Searching for an end to eastern Ukraine's war ahead of...
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has claimed around 13,000 lives, a quarter of them civilians. That’s according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Although Ukrainian...
View ArticleInternational report - Hotel workers in Guinea break silence on rape
In Guinea Conakry, female hotel staff and house maids are frequentlyraped or sexually assaulted by either their employers or by customers. But they remain tight-lipped over the issue for fear that...
View ArticleInternational report - Senegal's anti-radicalistation theatre
Compared to some its neighbours, the country of Senegal has so far been spared a major attack by Islamist extremists. In an effort to maintain the status quo, a theatre is being used to combat...
View ArticleInternational report - What matters in anti-matter
Does anti-matter matter? If you put that question to the average physicist, the answer would be a resounding "yes"! But what, exactly, is anti-matter? Well, it's the opposite of matter, the stuff...
View ArticleInternational report - James Carrington: Making history after recording a...
James Carrington made history in 1979 when he and other inmates at the Powhatan Correctional Center in Virginia, US recorded the first album in prison. James and his fellow inmates had created an...
View ArticleInternational report - Scotland: Between two unions
In 2014, 55 percent of Scottish voters rejected independence and chose to stay part of the United Kingdom – one of the main reasons: Scotland would have automatically lost its membership of the...
View ArticleInternational report - Tunis hosts LGBT film festival
Last month, Tunis hosted the second edition of the Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, the first event of its kind in the Arab world and a militant initiative to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and...
View ArticleInternational report - Rising cases of child abuse in Kenya
Human rights organizations in Kenya’s coastal region have raised the alarm over rising numbers of child abuse cases. They have condemned the police and judiciary for failing to resolve the crimes on...
View ArticleInternational report - Cash registers in India elections
Elections in India have become a money sport. Unchecked money power has driven political campaigns ahead of the general elections which start today. With no cap on the amount of money a political...
View ArticleInternational report - The power of money in India's general polls
India's general elections is on-going until 19 May. The sub-continent’s political parties display low “intra-party democracy” because policy decisions are routinely made by a small group of party...
View ArticleInternational report - New York's Harlem Pt 1: A long-standing Mecca for...
Harlem in New York has long been a cultural Mecca for African-Americans. In the 20th century it was considered by many as a crime hub afflicted by gang violence. Today it's firmly on the tourist...
View ArticleInternational report - Harlem series pt 2: Harlem as a Ghetto
Throughout the 20th century, Harlem was seen as an insalubrious neighbourhood where poor black people lived. During the 19th century Harlem was home to mainly white immigrant communities. In the...
View ArticleInternational report - Harlem series pt 3: The Harlem Renaissance
In this third episode about Harlem’s history, we focus on the cultural and intellectual movement that began in the 1920s: the Harlem Renaissance. It was called the New Negro Movement at the time, and...
View ArticleInternational report - Harlem series pt4: 'Full tilt' in Harlem
During the Harlem Renaissance, from the twenties onwards, white people began to discover Harlem’s cabarets and restaurants. Jazz and blues were everywhere in this northern Manhattan neighbourhood. The...
View ArticleInternational report - Harlem series pt 5: Harlem during the civil rights era
Harlem was a key location in the civil rights movement in the US in the 1950s and 1960s. Black leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X made speeches and organized marches in Harlem....
View ArticleInternational report - Melissa Freeman: breaking barriers in Harlem
Despite her age, at 92 years of age, Dr. Melissa Freeman is still running her own private practice in the dynamic neighbourhood of Harlem in New York City. She can be found there some night's working...
View ArticleInternational report - What happens next when the Space Station goes?
The International Space Station was launched twenty years ago. The multinational project has been home to dozens of scientists and has seen the completion of hundreds of experiments. But the structure...
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