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Watch Great Women on TV, but Follow Real Examples for Life
Written by Yohana de Andrade
More than ever, many filmes and series on TV portrait women’s work. The American TV shows Homeland and The Good Wife are good examples of that. However, who are the women in real life in Brazil that could change their own lives and others with their work?
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Aye and G’day, Ready to Break Away?
Written by gj.lyons
From Syria to Tunisia to Scotland, people seem to be taking political processes into their own hands. Are we shifting from a heavy reliance on those who once ruled and held complete power to building governance from the bottom-up? If given the opportunity to do the same, would Australia take […]
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Cuba in Transition, Will the US Respond?
Written by Samuel George
The United States’ embargo against Cuba is like the war on drugs – everyone in Washington realizes the policy is shortsighted and ineffective, yet nobody steps forward to change it. The Soviets appear increasingly unlikely to use Cuba as a conduit to spread international communism throughout the Americas. Anyone worth […]
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Britain’s welfare state – an outsider’s view
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
High numbers of pensioners, young people’s drive for education and prosperity and the growing gap between the young and the rich are all changing the British landscape. The welfare state which provides assistance to all of its citizens is slowly dying and being replaced by a new way of thinking: […]
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La pronta justicia como base del contrato social: el caso del juicio por genocidio en Guatemala
Written by vlemus
Abstract: Guatemala is to hold the first genocide trial in Latin America in March 2013. A former president and some other high-rank Army generals and colonels will be also facing trial under the accusation of ordering a series of massacres against Mayan population between 1982 and 1983. But since the […]
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Open and Connected: Impressions from the Social Media Week Hamburg and Paris
Written by Mario Wiedemann
This year, Social Media Week celebrated its fifth birthday. Ten cities all over the world were hosts of this truly global conference. The organizers marked this milestone with a unifying global theme that explored openness in a connected and collaborative world. Future Challenges first got in contact with Social Media […]
