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Dubbed the โLianghuiโ or โTwo Sessionsโ, Chinaโs annual plenary sessions of the National Peopleโs Congress and the Chinese Peopleโs Political Consultative Conference were held in Beijing early this March. As one of the major focuses of the sessions, Chinaโs growth target for 2016 and new agenda for economic reform were...
The arrest of eight suspected human traffickers in March this year in Zimbabwe has exposed how entrenched the crime has become in the country. Zimbabwe, a country weighed down by the serious economic meltdown, high unemployment rate and crippling droughts, has become a fertile hunting ground for human traffickers...
Chinaโs recent โnew normalโ growth and ongoing economic reform is destined to hurt the interests of rural migrant workers. In response to that, what Chinese government proposes is to let them go home and become self-employed without fully understanding the difficulties for them to start up businesses. Time to go home ย Chinaโs...
Diamonds, they say, are a girlโs best friend, but rough diamonds in Marange, Zimbabwe seem otherwise. The diamonds have brought a myriad of problems to more than 100 000 people living around Marange diamond fields. The diamonds which were discovered in 2006 brought hope to the poor Marange...
In Zambia, street vending is transforming cities and towns such as Lusaka, Livingstone, Ndola and Kitwe. To many, this does not look like a big story. Here, this is not just one among many other social phenomena: street vending epitomizes a lack of political vision. Back in 2011, after...
In 2015, more than 1 million people fleeing conflicts and persecutions arrived in Europe. Now, in countries like Greece, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia, increasing border controls and scrutiny of targeted checks keep the majority of migrants that do not come from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq at the borders. This...
What makes good drug policy? A commitment to deterring drug use and cultivation through sanction, prohibition and other punitive measures? Or perhaps a leaning towards damage-limitation, as exemplified through needle exchange programmes and opioid substitution therapy? With media outlets reporting this month that all the men in an Iranian village...
โNo Outlaws in the Gender Galaxyโ (Zubaan, 2015) documents the social, economic, spatial, physical and emotional experiences of being persons assigned gender female at birth (PAGFB). The book is the result of detailed interviews with 50 PAGFB in India conducted over a year starting 2009 by LABIA โ A Queer...
Surrounded by dozens of goats in the shape of a herd, Tari a widow in her mid-forties came to her hovel amid a noisy bleating of goats in a scorching heat. Living in the Tharparkar desert, Pakistan where the life has been much harder due to regular droughts hitting every...
Itโs no secret that Egypt has been suffering from a myriad of problems over the past few decades, including a broken education system, environmental problems related to waste management and energy generation, the infamous sexual harassment issue, a deteriorating health sector and a struggling economy, to name a few. ...
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