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“People need hope, people need loving  People need trust from a fellow man  People need love to make a good living  People need faith in a helping hand…” So sang Abba a few decades back. Sadly, hope, trust, love and faith are all in short supply. Well, so are jobs, […]

The tremors of the world’s economic crisis are never fully resonated in Australia, a country with an advantageous tectonic and fiscal position.

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 […]

When I was a kid, I could play this game for hours: staying in front of the mirror, moving my left hand to see whether the person on the wall would move her right hand… And I was incessantly expecting she’d move her left hand, just like myself. I had […]

  Abstract: The government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrilla in Colombia started dialogues for peace, after a war that has meant more than 40 years of bloodshed for Colombian citizens. Ex president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who helped Santos winning the elections, is nowadays the main opponent […]