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By Meggie Ambrose-Dempster, BA World Philosophies Our Streets Now is a grassroots, student-led, nation-wide campaign striving to end Public Sexual Harassment (PSH) through legislative and cultural change. With a new Higher Education ambassador scheme launched on 22 February, Our Streets Now is now being represented in 17 Higher Education institutions
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By Artemis Sianni-Wedderburn, BA Politics and Arabic Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on lives, health and the economy. This is reflected through the stock of English football team Manchester United (MANU on the New York Stock Exchange) and the positive correlation between key Covid dates (lockdowns, death toll milestones and vaccine
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SOAS Afghan Society The SOAS Afghan Society is a cultural society that seeks to express the plethora of Afghan culture and affairs through the hosting of events. Given the current climate of pandemic, we are still trying to come to terms with hosting events online as we enjoyed a number
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By Luke Thomas, BA Politics and African Studies Barcelona icon Lionel Messi has revealed he is looking to play in the United States upon his departure from Spain. In an interview with Jordi Evole for La Sexta, Messi discussed his fallout with Barcelona, managerial relationships, and lingering ambitions in unprecedented
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By Frances Howe, LLB Two-time world champion Tyler Wright has made surfing history with her recent Maui Pro win at Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. The event was the first time that the World Surf League Women’s Championship Tour has held a competition final at Pipeline. The Maui Pro began
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SOAS Painting Society We are an ever-growing society made up of beginners and professional artists with a passion for painting. Our zeal for painting was not impacted by the pandemic, as our love for creativity and learning about art continued. Even though we cannot meet in person, we have used
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By Kat Brown, MA Chinese Studies The coronavirus pandemic has brought to light many equality gaps in our society. For many, the gap has continued to widen as job losses are at an all time high with furlough schemes extended through until 30 April 2021. Schools in the UK have
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By Georgia Goddard, BA International Relations & Mala Dutta, MA International Studies & Diplomacy The birth of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, today the largest humanitarian network in the world, can be traced back to a battlefield in Solferino, Italy, in 1859. It is here that its
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By Artemis Sianni-Wedderburn, BA Politics and Arabic Northeastern China is home to the theoretically autonomous Xinjiang province, with a Turkic-Muslim Uyghur cultural and religious minority since the province’s 1949 incorporation into the People’s Republic of China. As one of the 55 nationally recognised minorities, they are legally endowed
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By Fakhriya M. Suleiman, MA Global Media and Postnational Communications The Russian doping saga was set in motion by the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. The Games saw the host nation initially achieve 33 medals – 13 were later expunged amid the federation’s doping scandal. The following year, however, the
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Netball Society We’re the Netball Society! Before lockdown, we’d aim to meet and train twice a week, and we hope to be back on the courts when we can. We are an all-inclusive society and encourage students of all abilities to join us, whether you’ve played before
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SOAS MENA Society: Our society has, for the past few years, come in and out of existence and hasn’t had the strongest foundations. However, as of 2019 a team of students, including myself, decided we wanted to make a properly functioning society that would represent the MENA in SOAS