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Migrants are becoming more vocal, for instance rallying against Qatar’s ­neglect of labour rights during the 2013 High Level Dialogue in New York.

Migration

Touchy issue

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by Stefan Rother
Civil-society engagement in Mozambique: Demonstration against a law on new privileges for members of parliament in Maputo in May.

Civil society

Cooperation, not ­instrumentalisation

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by Friedrich Kaufmann
by Winfried Borowczak
Old man in Bor, South Sudan.

Human rights

The road to mass starvation

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Italy’s coast guard comes to the rescue of a refugee boat near Sicily on 19 May.

Comment

Fortress Europe

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by Samir Abi
Netizens demonstrating against limiting online liberties in the Philippines in 2012.

Civil society

Protective encryption

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Women’s shadow councils lend their support to municipal councilwomen.

Gender

Women’s shadow councils in Palestine

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by Reham Alhelsi
by Petra Schöning
The churches are present at the grassroots level: Dioulatiedougou in Côte d’Ivoire.

Faith-based activism

Essential matters

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by Hans Dembowski
Binyavanga Wainaina, a well-known Kenyan writer, has come out about being gay.

Interview

“We need advocates from the West”

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All hopes rest on a son.

Repression

Government control of fertility

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by Astrid Lipinsky
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