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Almost five decades after Nixon infamously declared drug abuse as "public enemy number one" in the United States, the efficacy of the War on Drugs as a policy measure is clear to many. For Ethan Nadelmann, who founded the Drug Policy…
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The nearly three months of demonstrations by Palestinians along the Israel-Gaza border under the banner of the “March of Return”, which turned violent and has remained as such as of this writing. This provides another manifestation of how…
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What is Sustainable Development? A quarter of the world’s population lives without electricity. More than three billion people survive on less than $2.50 a day. Even in most high-income countries, the wealth gap has been widening. It’s…
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Ever since 2014, Yemen has been engulfed in a brutal civil war between the Yemeni government, backed by the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Houthi rebels backed by Iran. In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah…
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EaglePulse is a Montreal-based student startup that is dedicated to making local Montreal news more digestible by mapping them out on an interactive map of the city. Started by Concordia University software engineering students Mohammad…
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In 2001, Portugal took an unorthodox approach to address its drug crisis. Instead of waging a costly war on drugs and targetting users and dealers, it decided to decriminalize all drugs. In this podcast, Director-General João Castel-Branco…
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Located in the picturesque Central American isthmus, the Republic of Nicaragua rests upon a land with the same immensely rich pre-Columbian past shared by all Latin-American nations. However, since April 18th, this country of jungles,…
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       The argument that states have obligations to non-citizens is hardly novel. This has long been recognized by international refugee law, the laws of war, and other standard features of the international legal regime. Unfortunately,…
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"This is a bitter tragedy, to see how the struggle against a dictatorship in the 70's brought with it the germ of another dictatorship just as bloody." Latin and Central America has found itself infested with a series of hybrid,…
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Twenty six years ago, Imran Khan captained Pakistan to its first ever World Cup championship after narrowly beating England 249/6 to 227/10, having scored a decisive 72 runs and taking the last wicket of the game. Since then, Khan …
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