Campaigners fear little will remain bar the old facades once extensive redevelopment is over. By Teo Bichikashvili – Protests against the redevelopment of Tbilisi’s Gudiashvili Square have failed to stop builders moving into one of the Georgian capital’s most picturesque old neighbourhoods. Since the end of last year, non-government organisations, cultural figures and others […]
Democratic Republic of Congo: Clandestine Abortions on the Rise in Goma
Written by Passy Mubalama · Translated by Georgi McCarthy [Testimonies for this post were collected by email or face-to-face interviews in French and all links forward to French articles] Illegal abortion is a common practice in several provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly in Goma, Nord-Kivu, where the number of deaths recorded as […]
Iraq: Sectarian Violence Fears in Diyala
By IWPR contributor A bout of violence in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala has prompted fears of a resurgence of the kind of sectarian conflict that once wracked the country. On April 26, a double bombing hit a cafe owned by a Shia man in the village of Abu Garma in northern Diyala, killing […]
How Reliance Retail led the revival of co-operative chain ‘SahkariBhandar’
<p>‘A neighbourhood store-turned-super market’ is how one will describe the 40 year old co-operative chain, Sahkari Bhandar. Such a description is not common to a neighbourhood store which sells regular grocery and household items, but Sahkari Bhandar has been able to shore up its standing to match up to the levels of new-found super market […]
The Tunnel Vision of Ideology in the US
Part 1 of a series on Ideology versus Principle and how its shaking the foundations of civil society I have a friend who is legally blind. The disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, restricts his vision to a narrow cone of 19 degrees. Most of us get to use 160 – 170 degrees to the edges of our […]
The Tunnel Vision of Ideology
Part 1 of a series on Ideology versus Principle and how its shaking the foundations of civil society. Although written for a US audience – just change the names of the ideological groups affecting your society and the issues they dramatise and see if the observations remain true… I have a friend who is legally […]
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