Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • The Right to Water, an Egyptian Perspective. Click to see full size. Credit: the author (CC-by 3.0)

    Egypt: The Right to Water

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    Water is indispensable to human life. As a basic need, it is highly vulnerable to exploitation and has been recognized as a human right in several international human rights treaties and declarations. Addressing the right to water in terms of sustaining life highlights how important proper policies are for securing […]

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    Heartbreak by the Nile

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    Globalization has great benefits and great side effects. When the global economy is doing well, a lot of people try moving to the developed world for a better life while an ailing economy also forces people to find jobs elsewhere. Economic knockdown is perpetuating bad labor practices both in the […]

  • Secretary Clinton met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit on February 12, 2009 at the U.S. State Department. By U.S. State Department [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

    Us and the U.S.!

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    Here in the Middle East, people always point to the United States whenever they have any kind of problem. They either blame the U.S. for intervening in their countries national affairs, painting the U.S. as a criminal responsible for tragedies all over the world, or they praise the way the […]