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The nexus between the arms trade and forced displacement is rarely explored and the role of European arms trade policies that facilitate gross human rights violations in third countries is often absent from displacement and migration studies. Our new report joins the dots between Europe’s arms trade and forced displacement and migration.
Smoking Guns is part of TNI's Border Wars Series, which looks at the globalisation of border security, the way it criminalises refugees and those who support them, the policies that have put security above human rights, and the corporations profiting from it.
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Degrowth argues that environmental sustainability and social justice necessitate transitioning beyond growth-reliance. In order to address social and environmental issues, we have to transition towards societies that are not just smaller in size but also operate according to a different logic - a logic that is not determined by the market sphere.
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Since the February coup by the State Administration Council, conflict has spread in many parts of the country. In this commentary Khun Bedu explains why Karenni (Kayah) State is a critical example of political developments underway.
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The Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award is unlike any other award, as it is a tool for discovering Real Utopias from which to draw lessons.
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To end neoliberalism and defend energy resources, the present government of Andres Manuel López Obrador must step up and avoid at all costs the inclusion of supranational arbitration mechanisms in a renegotiated FTA with the European Union (EU-Mexico FTA), and ensure that European transnational corporations are made accountable for human rights violations in Mexico.
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As a colonial construct, the global drug control regime has undermined the rights of indigenous peoples (including the right to self determination, and to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs), obliging all states to abolish traditional uses of coca, cannabis and opium by means of crop eradication and drug law enforcement.
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The unfolding climate crisis and accelerated rush to capture natural resources have further exposed the powers pushing the economic growth mantra. While frontline communities and social movements are fighting for social and environmental justice, corporate and institutional power is being (re)consolidated in processes such as the European Green Deal and proposals of “green growth”. As part of the Degrowth Conference, activists from around the world will share their reflections in a panel on transnational movements and the relevance of degrowth in their struggles.
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About a decade ago, parts of the Arab world experienced great upheaval. The events that took place, and which continue to unfold to the present day, are not easily explained. In fact, to this day, and in light of subsequent uprisings, there is an ongoing attempt to fully understand what it is exactly that happened during what has been called the Arab Spring. Can these events be called revolutions? What is a revolution, and how does one determine whether it is successful or not?
To tackle these questions and more, TNI’s state of power Podcast presents Jamie Allinson, who is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Edinburgh University, an activist and trade unionist, and author of the upcoming book: The age of counter revolution: states and revolutions in the Middle East. Jamie is in conversation with Anthropologist, internet researcher, anti-racist campaigner, Miriyam Aouragh.
This conversation is part of a series looking at the Arab Uprisings, a decade afterwards.
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"Twenty years since 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, the United States is still haunted by Osama’s ghost."
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"A decade has passed since the Tunisian revolution. As the president takes power in a coup d'etat, is there still a future for the democracy that was pledged?"
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"Wildfires are devastating Greek forests in the worst heat wave in 30 years. Thanks to years of austerity and a right-wing government pushing through further privatizations under cover of the pandemic, even the basic services required to fight the fires are desperately lacking."
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