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As the OECD’s fourth Green Investment Financing Forum convened in Paris on the 24th and 25th of October 2017, much of the discussion centred around expanding investment in green bonds. Green bonds are financial instruments that account for…
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Founded in Bangkok in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The Southeast Asia Lectures Series organized a conference on 30 November 2017 at McGill University to use this 50th …
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"I just drank poison" -- With these words, the twenty-five-year mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) came to an abrupt end. The words, last spoken by former Bosnian Croat General Slobodan Praljak,…
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his party the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) were in power since the country's independence in 1980. However, this all changed on November 15, 2017 when President Mugabe…
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Towards the end of November, Americans partook in the annual ritual of Black Friday, when customers line up, still full from Thanksgiving dinner, waiting to trample each other in the rush to obtain the best sales. Aside from a chance for…
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Quietly buried amongst the inflammatory headlines that have become so emblematic of Trump’s America, Ajit Pai, head of the ostensibly independent Federal Communications Commission (FCC), recently announced the specific parameters of his…
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General Tso’s chicken is a popular Chinese dish found throughout North America, however, the dish just like its country of origin faces an identity problem. General Tso chicken does not originate from the mainland People’s Republic of China…
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It has been a little over a year since the Colombian government and guerrilla group FARC-EP signed a Peace Agreement meant to give an end to more than 50 years of armed conflict in Colombia. Since these two parties established a…
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Shortly after dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death in 2011, experts forecasted difficult years of state reconstruction for Libya. The Arab Spring transformed life as Libyans knew it, who, despite their battles, anticipated that the winds of…
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Women have come a long way from being confined to housework and strictly “feminine” standards, but the wait for equal representation in government and business has been long and unfulfilled. Though no legislation explicitly denies women…
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