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a year after it began, has #metoo become a global movement?

For decades, the very word has been scorned by average Russian women, who saw it as a Western-derived attack on their notions of femininity. Women’s rights movements have often felt superfluous in Russia, where women gained many freedoms during the Communist era — such as the right to vote and..

the two-state solution is neither

Is Two-State Solution now the zombie of Western political-thought dead, yet still walking the landscape, with bits of it rotting and falling off, while reason and history shoot holes in it, and it keeps staggering on, infecting the discourse. ..

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TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the western countries for continued support for the terrorist groups, those. ..

open forum: october 6, 2018

Interestingly, voter turn out in European democracies, already high by comparison, has increased in the years since the immigration crisis, which may account for the rise of alternative parties in just about every significant western European polity and the success of nationalists in Hungary and..

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the many dangers of being an afghan woman in uniform

It’s a dangerous label, one that points to Afghans viewing women’s empowerment in the security forces and elsewhere as a Western-initiated and funded endeavor. ... CreditKiana Hayeri “So much money is spent,” laments one Afghan women’s rights advocate who asked not to be named out of fear..

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