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Having gone to Nepal this summer to research human trafficking of young women and girls, I found that like any other social issue, the country’s blight of slavery is a metaphorical onion with many contributing layers sustaining its…
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This is the question Al Jazeera plans to answer. Labour unions have been in decline in the United States for decades and have been progressively losing their one true legislative ally - the Democrats, as they shift further and further to…
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As we struggle to get through midterms at school, it is important to realize how fortunate we are to be enrolled at an institution, and to have the opportunity to be educated. In Guatemala, many children do not have the opportunity or…
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For ages, we in the democracies of the West have prided ourselves on our right to express our opinion on a variety of issues without constraint. Living under the protections afforded to citizens of democratic nations, we have regularly and…
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Instead of doing one long overview of labour movements in developing countries I have decided to zoom in to a particular conflict between workers and their employers in a particular place for the next few posts. The situation is not…
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This time last year, Hong Kong shocked the world with yellow umbrellas, calling for a genuine universal suffrage. While the rest of the world gradually forgot about the heated protests, the Umbrella Revolution (also known as “Occupy…
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Because of some time constraints that have been placed upon me (mostly because of my own procrastination) I will not have time to write a post about the original topic I had intended to write about: grassroots labour movements in developing…
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The Bush White House’s decision to invade Iraq, overthrow Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist dictatorship and De-Ba’athification of the Iraqi military and intelligence agencies were the immediate causes of the Sunni insurgency that erupted in 2004.…
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This week is a busy one but I wanted to share this link from the Syrian refugee crisis event that I wrote about just over a week ago. A cameraman from the Guardian follows a family of refugees as they travel from Hungary to Germany.…
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I apologize for my absence - something came up right as I was about to post this past Sunday so I missed my Weekly Roundup post! But that’s alright, we’ll move on. After it was recently revealed from Federal Election Commission receipts…
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