Special Issue
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Religions and movements for gender equality have often followed different, if not opposite, trajectories. In societies like India, where secularism is a pillar of democracy and in which pockets of religious radicalism resist and are influent in the ongoing allocation of opportunities, a reflection on the relation between religion and...
Egypt is experiencing a youth bulge. One in five Egyptians is between 15 and 24. Half of the population is below 25. Youth, one may continue, boosts economic growth and prosperity. Well, this is not the case. According to a 2015 report issued by the Central Agency for Public...
Hormonal contraception methods have enjoyed many more lives than a cat. While doctors and lab technicians toil in search of the perfect way for women to avoid unwanted pregnancy-and side effects, it seems that these forms of contraception are popular among such a large number of women around the world...
A court decision in the Netherlands that allows a Nigerian farmer to sue oil giant Shell could trigger liability and compensation claims by citizens in developing countries against multinationals in Europe. In December, a Dutch court ruled that there is a basis to hold Shell liable in the Netherlands...
2015 is perhaps one of those year that France would like to forget. The two terrorist attacks that hit Paris have marked the year and will definitely influence political actions in the coming one. A walk in Place de la Republique gives a sense of things that have been...
On the 30th of July, 2014, the Secretary General of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), Botswana’s main opposition party, was involved in a fatal car accident just ten weeks before what was “billed to be Botswana’s most contested election.” The death of Gomolemo Motswaledi sent shockwaves through the opposition...
Controversial or polemical topics have a better chance to go viral on social media. Unfortunately, articles that deal with these topics are often also the ones that tend to omit the necessary fine prints to appropriately interpret them, or the ones that use overgeneralization. Scientific articles that go viral are...
Being a woman in Egypt involves going through the torturous experience of sexual harassment on almost daily basis. According to a research done by UN Women, 99,3% of Egyptian women reported to have been sexually harassed at least once in their lives. Several NGOs started working against this epidemic,...
In his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker sustains that violence has dramatically declined in the last century. Mexico is going the other way round. Violence (understood as murders) has been raising since 2007 (figure 1). Mexico is living an internal conflict with the dimensions of a...
The health of Mexican democracy is under menace. Just a quick look at the regional Latinobarómetro’s database on satisfaction with democracy shows that Mexico is in its lowest historical levels of popular support to democracy. Despite many institutional changes and transformations in the last three decades, it does not seem...
