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This was the first time I bought something on the black market. Yet I would have expected to have to enter a semi-legal market for purchasing other items than a perfectly ordinary SIM card. But when the Myanmar government stopped issuing temporary SIM cards in July 2013, the only way […]

We cordially invite you to our public discussion, an event held within the initiative Globalization and the Internet, lead by Internet & Society Collaboratory and the blogger project FutureChallenges.org of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The event – to be held mostly in English – will deal with the interactions between the Internet, trade and […]

“I know it’s sinful, but sometimes I feel like committing suicide” are the words of a 66 years old woman I went to interview for this article in Skopje, Macedonia. Mona* suffers from hyperlipidaemia, heart problems, bronchitis and chronic sickness of the uterus. She has no way of paying for […]

  Abstract: Mrs. Creuza Maria Oliveira is the face of the struggle for labor rights of domestic workers in Brazil. President and leading activist of the FENATRAD (National Federation of Domestic Workers), Creuza has played a central role in the process of drafting the new constitutional law, approved last May by the […]

Poverty and unemployment are chronic ailments that afflict much of South Africa’s scattered township population. These townships, known as shanty towns in much of the rest of the world, comprise a large percentage of the overall population of the country and therefore any conversation about South Africa’s future cannot be […]

Although Nepal has a rich and ancient culture, the country has become more famous as an adventure playground for tourism, especially mountain tourism. The Everest range and the Annapurna circuit –mountaineering’s most prestigious venues – are beloved of mountaineers and have generated substantial amounts of income for the country and still continue to […]