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Editors' Picks

FairPlanet’s Editors’ Picks offers weekly commentary on globally relevant topics, chosen by our editors to provide fresh insights into the stories shaping our world. Whether inspired by breaking news or themes explored in our podcast and video series, these commentaries bring global issues into focus with a local perspective.

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06.Jun
June 06, 2014
Snowden: one year on
editor:Vanessa Ellingham
One year has passed since media outlets first began publishing details of NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations, exposing an uncomfortable picture of mass [...]
05.Jun
June 05, 2014
Bowe Bergdahl Release Video: Don't Come Back to Afghanistan
editor:Murat Suner
Footage released by the Taliban allegedly showing the handover at the weekend of their captive US army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to the American military near the Afghan border with [...]
04.Jun
June 04, 2014
600,000 stateless in Europe
editor:Vanessa Ellingham
"Everyone has the right to a nationality" - this is the cry of the European Network on Statelessness which reports that at least 600,000 people are currently stateless in Europe. To be stateless is [...]
03.Jun
June 03, 2014
Tiananmen crackdown: Repression intensifies on eve of 25th anniversary
editor:Murat Suner
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Amnesty International has documented a further 30 activists that have been persecuted as the [...]
02.Jun
June 02, 2014
Turkish constitutional court bans shutdown of YouTube
editor:Murat Suner
Last week Turkey's highest court ruled that the country's two month-old ban on YouTube violates constitutional rights to freedom of expression [...]
02.Jun
June 02, 2014
Meriam Ibrahim's husband not informed of expected release
editor:FairPlanet Editorial Team
A Sudanese official told media over the weekend that Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death for abandoning Islam, will be freed from prison in [...]
30.May
May 30, 2014
French riot police expel migrants
editor:Vanessa Ellingham
Riot police in the French port town of Calais have begun expelling people living in migrant camps there, many of them Syrian asylum seekers. French authorities have said the camps must be cleared to shut down an [...]
28.May
May 28, 2014
Malaysia deports UNHCR refugees
editor:Vanessa Ellingham
Malaysia has flouted its international obligations, deporting three Tamil migrants back to Sri Lanka where they are at risk of torture. Despite being protected by the UN refugee agency UNHCR, [...]
27.May
May 27, 2014
Meriam Ibrahim sentenced to death for apostasy gives birth in Sudanese prison today
editor:Murat Suner
Today, 27 year old Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy, has given birth to a baby girl in the Khartoum prison where she [...]
26.May
May 26, 2014
Yemen’s Torture Camps. Human Rights Watch reports about the abuse of migrants by human traffickers in a climate of impunity.
editor:Murat Suner
The report, released yesterday, documents harms suffered by migrants, most from the Horn of Africa, who try to travel through Yemen on their way to [...]
23.May
May 23, 2014
International community’s shameful failure to fully fund the UN relief programme in Lebanon causes medical disaster for Syrian refugees
editor:Murat Suner
A severe shortfall in international support has left many Syrian refugees in Lebanon unable to access crucial medical care, according to a new report [...]
22.May
May 22, 2014
Climate change poses severe risks to global food security
editor:Murat Suner
The study "Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of a Changing Climate", released today on a high-level in Washington D.C., is the first to examine the effects of the [...]
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