Tag: Featured Politics
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Bodies For Growth: From Fields To Offices, How Climate Change Is Forcing Indian Women To Pay With Their Health
India’s climate response, embodied in various national policies, often overlooks the subtle and cumulative impacts of climate stress on women’s health, particularly reproductive health. While substantial efforts have been made to enhance climate governance, the focus has predominantly been on acute events and tangible losses, sidelining the gradual accumulation of stress experienced by women. This…
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Dropping The Olive Branch From the Hand: Who Killed Yasser Arafat?
Under the ever-tightening grip of the Israeli forces that had bombed and raided his offices several times since 2002, Yasser Arafat suddenly fell ill at the dining table and thus started the biggest mystery of the modern-day Middle East. With more than seven countries involved in this mystery, the setting is no less than a…
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Uterus For Money: India’s Medical Scandal Forcing Poor Women To Give Up Wombs
Menstruation is always considered a taboo in India and this problematic issue continues as a large majority of the women population who belong to poor class families, have no educational status and are forced to make choices under constraints that have a long-term irreversible impact on their health and lives. Poor women in India, who…
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No Day Shall Erase You: Unknown Stories of September 11 2001 Attacks
was a watershed moment in the history of the world.
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: He Who Chose Shadow
Philip Mountbatten married then-princess Elizabeth in 1947 and their marriage became the longest royal union in the history. Just as the Queen is the longest-serving monarch, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh was the longest-serving Royal Consort in British history. He did not have any role in his wife’s official duties, but he provided her…
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Skies Over the Middle East: The Showdown of the Big Air Carriers of the Gulf
3 major airlines of the world. Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways & Qatar Airways with diversified strategies and a single aim- Global Aviation Dominance. A commentary on their growth, sustainability, global aviation hubs, and post-pandemic outlook.
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Human Rights Tossed? UN elects Russia, China for Human Rights Council
This membership can be easily leveraged by the two nations to justify the impeachment of human rights in their own respective countries. What’s laughable is that Russia and China are both communist countries who see human rights as a threat to their existence. This decision obviously brings the UN Human Rights Council’s credibility at stake.
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Ner Shel Shabbat: A Nazi who saved 1200 Jews and Generations
Itzhak Stern, a Jewish clerk said this to a fleeing Oskar Schindler as World War II reached its sunset and the Allied forces liberated Nazi torture and extermination centers. Schindler is often credited for using his wealth, connections with top Nazi Party members, and position of power to save at least 1200 Jews and the…
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Secrets of the Sahara: Mauritania’s Dark Side
Lost in the magnificent sand dunes of the great Sahara desert lies a country on the Western Coast of Africa. The time seems to have stood still here for the last 200 years. Desert is the country’s most treasured possession but this desert holds some of Mauritania’s darkest and deepest secrets: Human Slavery.
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Mohamed Morsi: Egypt’s President Who Couldn’t Govern All
A modern-day Julius Caesar plot was hatched in Egypt following the 2011 Arab Spring movement. In the center of the plot was the country’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi was abandoned by most of his loyal people in the government, his own security force, and the executive branch of the government. Mohamed Morsi went on a trial in…
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