Human trafficking - hidden in plain sight

The media globally tends to have a bias to negative, sensational and headline grabbing stories and events and this certainly applies to reporting related to human trafficking in the third world. With the abundance of stories around sweat shops, massage parlours and organ trafficking networks happening 'somewhere else', the West...

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Promoting individual actions on climate change

Following the nearly two week-long UN Climate Change Conference COP24 held at Katowice, Poland on December 02-15, prospects of any significant progress in coming up with the 2015 Paris Agreement "rulebook" do not seem very bright although some deliberations took place on the issue. Though the loggerheads between different developed...

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Christian revivals prompted less by churches, more by politicians

Christmas is invariably the time for a grouch that neither Christ nor mas(s) feature much in a festival meant to rededicate Christian believers to the worship of the son of God. Materialism, especially for children, swamps, on this view, any reflection on the meaning of a Christian - or religious...

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