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Participants in NGO meeting ahead of the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in 2008.

Multilateral affairs

Unequal partners

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by Antonio Tujan Jr.
Rural South African grandmother.

Social security

African pension patterns

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by Hans Dembowski
Mohammed Fahmy is one of three Al Jazeera journalists who were sentence to three years in prison in late August.

Comment

Press freedom restricted

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by Ingy Salama
An activist stands at the COPINH office in La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras. The civil-society organisation defends indigenous rights.

Human Rights

“For us, there is only death”

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
During the West African Ebola epidemic in 2014, the INGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assumed a major role in health care: MSF-centre in Foya, northern Liberia.

International NGOs

Experts, advocates and activists

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by Charlotte Dany
by Andrea Schneiker
Tens of thousands of NGOs help people in India to fight for their rights. These women in Uttar Pradesh fight for women rights and against violence of men, corruption and police arbitrariness.

Repression of NGOs

New Indian authoritarianism

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
The seats in Lebanon’s parliament are allocated in proportion to the religious communities' share of the general population.

Lebanon

Faith-based parliament

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
“My uterus, my decision”: Thousands demonstrate in Santiago de Chile in early July for a reform to Chile’s abortion law.

Comment

Women’s lost right

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by Cadima Tania
Sunni Saudi Arabia is home to the most important place of pilgrimage for all Muslims, the Kaaba in Mecca.

Confessionalisation

Shiites and Sunnis in political Islam

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by Thomas Birringer
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