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Mark Engler on sexual violence today in light of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Jürgen Fälchle/Alamy

1 Dec 2017 3 minute read

This article is more than one year old.

Confronting a culture of sexual violence

... assault is to become a thing of the past, we must commit to making it so. Mark Engler ’s latest book is entitled, This Is An ...

1 Oct 2017 2 minute read

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Our favourite music from the world in October

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18 Oct 2011 4 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Occupy London: this is what democracy looks like

... history of campaigning movements called ‘Counterpower: Making Change Happen’ More information about the Occupy movement ...

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5 Oct 2002 4 minute read

This article is more than 16 years old.

... Hakena are swimming against tides of hatred and creating waves of peace to carry women on to safer shores. The people on Bougainville's ...

2 Mar 2006 4 minute read

This article is almost 13 years old.

Bolivia's new politics

... public remarks warning of the danger of a MAS Government making changes to drug control laws, long a source of contention. The Bolivian ...

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5 Nov 1995 8 minute read

This article is more than 23 years old.

Rivers Know No Boundaries

... paddle, but the canoe barely moves forward into the wind and waves. Spray blows off the white caps, stinging my eyes. The wind is ... and white water. As we turn and run with the waves around the tip of a long spit jutting out into Beverley Lake, we see two ...

1 Jan 2007 7 minute read

This article is more than 12 years old.

... That evening he was swept off his trawler by lashing waves. All night he floated in the open sea until he was pulled in by the high ... says, ‘but the water never gets so dark, so fast. And the waves – I can’t even start telling you.’ In fact, no-one at the ...

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5 Dec 1987 8 minute read

This article is more than 31 years old.

21 Aug 2015 5 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

The Labour purge is underway

21 Apr 2011 7 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

The change of Cosmos

... a crenulated and feeble defence against the encroaching waves. Elevations average mere metres above the sea level. In December 2008, ... flooding houses and roads and raising health concerns as waves washed over cemeteries and mixed raw sewage into the standing water. ...

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5 Aug 1992 6 minute read

This article is more than 26 years old.

Voices Of The Sea

... the breeze from the sea and I can stop the water buffalo making a meal of that cassava. I'm slicing some rubber from ... ago my boat capsized in the middle of a violent storm. The waves were as high as a coconut tree. I remember it vividly. It was about ten ...

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5 Jun 1990 7 minute read

This article is almost 29 years old.

Guns, Idiots, Screams

... than simply silencing them. Financial leakages would shrink, making economies stronger. And populations could better ensure that money was ...

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