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Inside and Out at the Human Rights Museum
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- October 12, 2014
Published on openDemocracy.net on October 14, 2014 The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened this month in Winnipeg, in western Canada, reigniting a long-running controversy over its portrayal of human rights issues. Before turning to that debate, however, an initial question arises – what is a human rights museum? At first blush, most people find
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Spring Into Summer? The Tunisian Elections
- Analysis
- October 12, 2014
by Bruce Montador Tunisia will soon complete the transition begun when President Ben Ali fled in January 2011. Under a new constitution, it will elect a parliament (via regional lists) this month, and then a president. Although the constitution gives most power to parliament, most attention is focused on the easier-to-understand presidential election. Even a
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This Isn’t the Kind of War Bombs Can Win
- Analysis
- October 10, 2014
Published in iPolitics, October 7, 2014 For starters, let’s stop calling them Islamic State. As President Barack Obama has pointed out, the mass murderers in black cutting a bloody trail through Iraq and Syria are neither truly Islamic nor a state. Second, let’s recognize that the fight against ISIS is less about bombs and bullets
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An Imperfect Election and New Government Offer Only Glimmers of Hope for Afghanistan
- Analysis
- October 8, 2014
The formation of a National Unity Government (NUG) in Afghanistan, ending the long 2014 presidential election process, has been hailed by international leaders as a peaceful and democratic transfer of power. Objective analysts, however, question the merits of such a view. The ethnically divided second-round election in Afghanistan raised concerns about potential armed violence between
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