Overseas ballots: Canadian Tamils vote from afar
Canadian Tamils of Sri Lankan descent have expressed their support for the creation of a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka through a novel approach: a national referendum.
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Steven Haggblade's "Forgotten Farmers" (Fall 2009) included multiple grammatical errors that were introduced ' during our journal production through no fault of the author.
Maintaining vitality in exile: the Tibetan refugees in South Asia
In the December 20, 2001 issue of The Economist, the magazine carried an article, "Home Thoughts From Abroad: Governments in Exile," an examination of the two dozen or so
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A Universal mandate to protect: the challenges of refugee protection
The global presence of refugees is one of the hallmarks of the modern era. On every continent people are being forced from their homes, communities, and countries of origin
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Hostile relations India's Pakistan dilemma: Shivshankar Menon was India's Foreign Secretary...
The neuralgic reactions in both India and Pakistan to the Sharm Al Sheikh joint statement of July 16, 2009 are a measure of the sensitivity and irrationality that dog attempts to
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Guinea foul: challenging Camara's Coup
On September 26, 2009 over 20,000 people crowded the streets in Labe, Guinea to protest the visit of Moussa Dadis Camara, screaming "No to Khaki Power!" For Camara, who currently
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Foreign "Invaders": genetically modified crops and plant diversity
My struggle with weeds over the years has made me aware of the damage they can inflict in gardens, farms, and native ecosystems.
Black, blanc, beur: France debates counting its minorities
Ethnicity, according to one British commentator, is to the French what sex was to the Victorians. It is Yazid Sabeg's job to change all that.
Demystifying defense: exposing myths about US military expenditures
The most serious impediments to a serious discussion of defense spending are the myths that surround it.
Freedom house presents ... civil society under threat bureaucratic strategies of the new...
After several decades of consistent progress, the state of global freedom has entered a period of stagnation and possibly even decline.
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