Tuesday, 25 June 2019

The People and the Powerful in the Age of Climate Apartheid

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The UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has warned of a “climate apartheid” if more is not done to mitigate the pote...
Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Oxfam, Amnesty, and a Collective Crisis of Conscience

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The recent Charity Commission report into Oxfam’s mismanagement of serious sexual misconduct by its staff in Haiti highlighted a "cu...
Wednesday, 29 May 2019

The Political Theatre of the "Buddhist bin Laden"

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On the 28 th May, The Myanmar government issued a warrant for the arrest of the ultra-nationalist Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu. Wirathu, w...
Wednesday, 22 May 2019

The International War on Women

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A report from the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack , released on the 20 th May, has shed light on the devastating conseq...
Thursday, 9 May 2019

An Attack on the Amazon's Indigenous Population

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A recent UN report has confirmed many of our worst fears concerning the effect that human activity is having on the natural world. A tenf...
Tuesday, 30 April 2019

A Cry of Despair and an Unheeded Warning

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To walk through the gates at the infamous Birkenau II death camp in Poland is to follow the footsteps of around 1.5 million murdered huma...
Monday, 15 April 2019

Cyclone Idai and the Importance of Public Health Preparation

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Cyclone Idai devastated Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Madagascar as it tore a path through South-Eastern Africa between the 4 th and ...