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The world once more celebrated the United Nations International Day of Peace, marked as every year on 21st Sept. Yet the world is far from peace as civil wars, religious conflicts, growing insurgencies and the economic downturn bring ever more hardship to people in many countries. And Cambodia is no […]

It’s been almost fifteen years since the end of the civil war and the landowners on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are discussing the return of the mining giant Rio Tinto. Rio’s infamous Panguna mine, owned by its subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) was at the […]

Who’s afraid of fearless art? by Manouchehr Shamsrizi FRSA Any postmodern arts scene has the éclat in its DNA, but in Berlin we can (readily?) see the impact of a re-politicisation and re-moralisation in the arts. This is happening at the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, organized by KW Institute for Contemporary […]

Over the past few months a worldwide protest movement has arisen with the aim of stopping various planned legislative moves for tighter regulation and control of the internet. Opponents of these proposed laws believe they endanger freedom on the internet. Yet the debates waged on this matter have also made […]

Latin American famous artists send messages defending the right to education in Puerto Rico. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftvw5gYSb6E&NR=1