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MIR's Anica Lanzi sits down with Dr. Sabina Alkire, Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), to discuss Chinese government efforts to alleviate multidimensional poverty in its rural provinces. In addition to…
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Late last month, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern was sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand. It is hard to overstate what an astonishing, if not bewildering, development this is. At this time last year, Ardern was not Labour Party leader…
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On October 17, 2017, Russian officials put out a request for cooperation from the international community to locate and arrest William F. Browder by placing him on Interpol's watch list. His crime? Maybe nothing more than lobbying. Mr.…
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On 25 September 2017 over 13% of the German electorate voted for the AfD “Alternative für Deutschland,” or in English, “Alternative for Germany”. This sent 92 members of AfD to the German parliament (Bundestag), the first time since 1945…
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“Kenyans want us to succeed,” Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s recently re-elected incumbent president, said to reporters following his win in August. The election, which boasted extraordinarily high voter turnout (around 78% of eligible voters…
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One Turkish film that has received prominent international exposure is Mustang (2015), which tells a powerful story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother in an Anatolian village. When their neighbours see the girls playing…
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This is the beginning of a two part story of justice, political affiliation and questionable evidence that has torn through Greece in the last couple of months. This is a story of outcry, protest, loyalty and commitment, but above all this…
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Similar to previous seasons, this autumn has had more than its fair share of political controversy. Independence is currently the international community’s most hotbed issue. Two referendums on the issue in two different countries have…
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“If you’ve got money, you vote in… if you haven't got money, you vote out.” Those were the words of a woman in northern Manchester, spoken to The Guardian just a few days before the United Kingdom’s historic vote to leave the European…
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