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The series of photos below was taken to show the working conditions of more than 50 percent of the Pakistani population.

Lläufer, Sports Museum Cologne by PixelAnarchy. License: Public Domain Abstract: It is not true that in the Olympic competitions wins the best. Usually the richest wins. Well, certainly earns arguably the best: the best fed, the best trained, the best prepared. But for that you need money. And a lot […]

Civil society potentially has the power to force economic policies that change the world; but what if it’s barely keeping itself alive? Civil Society Organization laws in the Arab world are extremely restrictive, impeding the rights and powers of such organizations. A vibrant civil society arena is typically reflective of […]

  A newspaper was confiscated, its chief editor on trial at the moment, another TV channel suspended, two other media outlets being judicially pursued for “defaming the president”, and regular columnists known to be critical of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood allege they have been banned from writing. The much-respected Committee to […]

DOs and DON’Ts. We become familiar with their meaning in childhood. “Do this”, “don’t do that”. It’s a world made up of permitted and forbidden things and it’s usually others that impose the rules on us. If this is so, where is our free will? And if this is what […]

At the Olympics, every athlete is winner. Some win their share of the limelight while others live to train for the next Olympics.