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Prisoners Hunger Strike in Palestine
Marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, and as over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners enter an open hunger strike for a series of demands, HadfNews published an interview with imprisoned (…) -
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Latin America’s Women-Led Movements and New Feminisms
Less than a week before International Women’s Day a year ago, Honduran military men trained by the Pentagon burst into her home and assassinated Berta Caceres. Feminist, environmentalist, and (…) -
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Resistance Highways; Finding a Place for Protest in the U.S.A.
“There is nothing more powerful than the sound of marching feet” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public protests arise out of the unique form of each city: the systems of governance, the character (…) -
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Kashmir: Pellet Guns, Stone Pelting and the Supreme Court
On March 28, during the fourth hearing of the J & K Bar Association’s appeal for banning the use of pellet guns in the valley, the Supreme Court apparently told the Bar Association that it (…) -
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Kashmir: The Possibilities
Kashmir needs people’s struggle, not terrorism In 2003 I interviewed the late Amanullah Khan, founder of the nationalist organization Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, for our documentary (…) -
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Why the U.S. Is a Bigger Threat Than North Korea
A few years ago, I asked a retired Iraqi Air Force officer what it felt like to be bombed periodically by the United States in the 1990s. Whenever U.S. President Bill Clinton felt irritated, I (…) -
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‘Holy Shiver’
Much of the Pakistani public, tacitly or openly, endorses violent punishment of suspected blasphemers. THE mental state of men ready and poised to kill has long fascinated scientists. The (…) -
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Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment
In a foreign aid environment dominated top-down by donors, what can we do to facilitate local ownership over the aid process? Is it possible, or is the system just too flawed? Local Leadership (…) -
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OXFAM Novib and Human Rights Organization in Niger
After eleven years of partnership, the Dutch NGO OXFAM Novib decided, on March 22, 2017 to cut off all partnership relationship with the Nigerien Association Alternative Citizens’ Spaces (…)
