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Mexico’s Abducted Students: Where Does the Country Go From Here?
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- October 20, 2014
by Claude Denis How does one write about Mexico today? The country is in full crisis mode after 43 students from the Ayotzinpa teachers’ college in rural Guerrero were kidnapped by the police on September 26, and six other people were killed, as they were organizing to travel to Mexico City for a demonstration commemorating
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Inside and Out at the Human Rights Museum
- Analysis
- 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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