Increase in global child trafficking – UNODC
27 per cent of all victims of human trafficking officially detected globally between 2007 and 2010 are children, up 7 per cent from the period 2003 to 2006. Girls now … Continue reading
Freedom & Diversity
Timothy Garton Ash – Painful though this will be to those who have expended their academic careers on multiculturalism, the term should be consigned to the conceptual dustbin of history. How, … Continue reading
Preventing displacement
Preventing displacement is obviously a worthwhile objective. Being displaced puts people at a higher risk of being both impoverished and unable to enjoy their human rights. Such a situation is … Continue reading
Second Hand Spaces – Recycling Sites Undergoing Urban Transformation
At vacant sites, second hand spaces draw on the atmosphere, the traces, the remains, and the history of their previous uses. Their actors develop an individual aesthetic out of such … Continue reading
Remittance investment and knowledge-sharing can help lift poorest nations
The Least Developed Countries Report 2012 addresses the issues of remittance flows to LDCs and the potential role of diasporas in LDCs’ development. It argues that with the right policies and … Continue reading
Thailand: A strategy for democratic change
Marc Saxer Even if the elites manage to settle the political conflict with a Grand Bargain, this will not suffice to overcome the deeper transformation crisis. Thailand’s traditional political, social … Continue reading
Post-2015 and the Front Line
Lord McConnell – The MDGs encouraged schools for girls, but they have not attacked the sexual violence and rape used as weapons of war. They have delivered vaccines for children, but … Continue reading
