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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
Chinese construction companies are active on many continents: road project in Ethiopia.

Comment

New silk road

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by Hans Dembowski

Public transport

Deadly boats on Nile River

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by Basma El-Mahdy
Ennahda supporter during a rally before elections of the constituent assembly in October 2011.

Middle East

Vicious cycle of radicalisation

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by Thomas Birringer
Refugees in a boat on the Mediterranean Sea.

Summer special

Longing for a better life

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by Dagmar Wolf
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