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January: the longer view

2022-01-13T12:40:02Z

January's archives

- 2022/01 / perspective

When the women's movement went global

Kristen R Ghodsee — 2022-01-12T23:00:00Z

The story of 20th-century feminism in the communist East, and global South, is little known in the West. This was a moment when a worldwide coalition of women saw the fight for their rights as inseparable from challenging other forms of inequality and oppression.

- 2021/07 / article, 2021/07 Feminism

United States: the black hole of Guantanamo

Augusta Conchiglia — 2022-01-11T23:00:00Z

The arrest of Saddam Hussein has not solved the Iraq problem since Iraqis remain hostile to their foreign occupiers and resistance continues. Peace remains just as precarious in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are making a comeback. And no one has yet thought out what will happen to those captured in the Afghan war of 2001 and dumped since in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without any regard for human rights or for the law of the United States. For almost two years now 660 “enemy combatants” captured (...)

- 2004/01 / United States (internal affairs), Iraq, Conflicts, International Law, Human rights, United Nations (UN), Jail, halte_bio, article

Vigilantes 2.0

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues & Laurent Gayer — 2022-01-09T23:00:00Z

Vigilantes are on the rise across the world, often targeting the most vulnerable. Forget the Hollywood image of the lone wolf: 21st-century vigilantes are organised, skilled in the use of social media — and often on the far right.

- 2021/12 / article

Taliban victory sparks regional reset

Jean-Luc Racine — 2022-01-09T23:00:00Z

With the US gone, relations between Afghanistan's powerful neighbours are shifting. United by a fear of growing terrorism, new alliances are forming and old ones being tested, with ramifications that go far beyond Central Asia.

- 2021/12 / article, 2021/12 Afghanistan

Transnistria: a pro-Russian enclave in Europe

Cécile Marin — 2022-01-05T15:10:49Z

Source: Jacques Leclerc, ‘L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde', Université Laval, Quebec

- Caucasus / 2022/01 Transnistria

The Chinese take to the slopes

Jordan Pouille — 2022-01-05T14:59:41Z

China has big plans for skiing as a casual leisure activity. Today it has nearly 800 ski resorts, including indoor centres that will take 3,000 people.

- 2022/01 / article

Japanese women find their voice

Christine Levy — 2022-01-05T14:59:40Z

Japanese women are much less likely to become politicians or doctors than their western counterparts, but they're fighting back against pervasive everyday sexism.

- 2022/01 / article

The open-source world is more and more closed

Laure Muselli, Mathieu O'Neil, Fred Pailler & Stefano Zacchiroli — 2022-01-05T14:59:38Z

Free and open-source software (FOSS) has played a huge part in creating our digital world; it provided the foundations of the Android operating system. But it's increasingly been coopted by Big Tech.

- 2022/01 / article

Transnistria, relic of a frozen conflict

Loïc Ramirez — 2022-01-05T14:59:36Z

Transnistria, a pro-Russian breakaway state, wants to formalise its independence from Moldova. But in spite of its multi-ethnic national vision, its young people are tired of waiting and are leaving in droves.

- 2022/01 / article, 2022/01 Transnistria