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The Conference of the Parties (COP) conferences have been frequently labelled failures, as a post-Kyoto agreement has yet to be designed. The Lima conference in December 2014 is set to be no different, with delegates admitting that no…
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This week,the Online McGill International Review offered once more different perspectives on world issues to its readership. The writers challenged the conventional wisdom seen in most mainstream medias to deliver undiscussed, but…
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L’humour touche parfois sur des sujets un peu plus délicats. C’est connu : la provocation et la controverse sont le gagne-pain des comédiens. Aux États-Unis, chaque semaine, les Américains s’assoient devant leur téléviseur pour regarder…
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Over two months have passed since the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 students from a rural teachers college in Mexico. The students were passing through the Iguala, the capital of Guerrero state, en route to Mexico City to…
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The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently released the annual Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, a report first launched in February 2009 as part of the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT). The report…
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This article is the beginning of a two part collaborative series on the journalism of terror. Part Two will be published next week by Bella Shraiman. This past year has seen the rise of the Islamic State, an Islamist anti-systemic…
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The recent elections mark a milestone in Tunisia's transitional democracy. For many, the success story of the Arab Spring is on the path to democratic consolidation. The nascent democracy has undergone numerous transitions in the past…
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It is no secret that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) makes about $1 million per day selling petrol from the oilfields it had captured during its striking advances in Iraq and Syria over the past three years. Much less…
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Inutile de commencer cet article par une description paradisiaque des Maldives. Tout le monde connait ce chapelet d’îles coralliennes. Au moment où vous lisez ces mots, un tableau de son eau turquoise et de ses plages de sable fins…
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Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, bore many firsts for the Vatican: he is the first elected pope while the previous pope (Benedict XVI, by resignation) remains alive; first pope of the Americas; first Jesuit pope; and…
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