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Zahra Banday, BA English TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse and violence. In February of 2017 around one hundred children tried to escape Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, a state-run orphanage in Guatemala, but officials soon found them, rounded them up and took them back
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Zahra Banday, BA English TRIGGER WARNING: This article discusses rape and child abuse. It has recently come to light that the Vatican has a secret internal code for dealing with priests who break celibacy vows and father children. Vatican spokesperson Alessandro Gisotti talked with The New York Times saying, “I
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Caroline Hilgers, BA International Relations and Social Anthropology The last few weeks have stirred up big questions regarding nationality and citizenship in the UK, as the case of 19-year-old Shamima Begum has become national news. Shamima Begum was first reported on in 2015 when she left the UK with two
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Elizabeth Shwe, BA Politics – Exchange Student From Princeton On multiple nights between 15 January and 3 February, a group of SOAS students provided 24-hour library services, or “sleepovers”, at the SOAS library to show solidarity with the library staff against the proposed cuts to the library and other services as
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Gabriel Huland, PhD Media Studies After a period of discussions and consultations, the One Professional Service (OPS) restructuring process will soon enter a new phase. SOAS management has now presented to the Executive Board the revised proposals addressing the fiscal deficit currently hitting SOAS. The changes are due to take
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Alice Milton, BA World Philosophies On Tuesday 19 February, the Japanese car company Honda announced it will be closing its plant in Swindon by 2021. This will result in the direct loss of at least 3,500 jobs in the area and in the wider supply chain. It also represents
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In an attempt to shed light upon the recent events and the current geopolitical situation in Venezuela, we will provide a basic chronology and will suggest some key questions to ask ourselves which the majority of mainstream news fails to answer. The mainstream media takes a narrow-angle and one-sided perspective,
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Hala M.E. Abushama, MSc Development Economics On 19 December 2018, peaceful demonstrations broke out through the streets of Atbara, in the Republic of Sudan. Bread prices tripled in Atbara overnight, after months of struggle with long queues to purchase bread and petrol as well as to obtain cash. This
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Noor Mandviwalla, LLB Hons The Trigger: Attack on Pulwama Tensions between India and Pakistan have reached a highpoint in February, with the trigger being the attack on a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel by a suicide bomber at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. This resulted
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Caren Holmes, MA Postcolonial Studies A second Thai antiquity lacking documentation of its providential and transactional history has been identified in the SOAS collections, raising concerns that the university potentially has other looted items in its possession. The item in question is a 2000-year-old ceramic vessel from Ban Chiang, Thailand,
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Streisand Neto, MSc International Politics Ilhan Omar, a congresswoman from Minnesota, caused controversy after sharing her views American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Twitter. She stated “It’s all about the Benjamins baby”, in reference to $100 bills and the money that lobbies often bring in for supportive candidates.
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Arooj Sultan, BA Economics & Politics The Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) anti-austerity and anti-government protestors marched for the 10th consecutive weekend, on the 19th of January. An estimated 84,000 people demonstrated against the government. Government buildings were vandalised, rioting broke out at the tomb of Napoleon, and protestors hurled