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What do dictators sell?

Posted by IWR Editorial Feb 1, 2010

Who is investing in Burma or Sudan; who is wearing the soft cotton t-shirt that is stained with the blood of 200,000 schoolchildren of Uzbekistan; who is driving on Saudi oil; who is buying gas from Turkmenistan; who considers Morocco an economic partner.

Forgotten heroes, forgotten walls

Posted by IWR Editorial Nov 21, 2009

We are tempted to use this occasion to remember a few other heroes of peace.

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Blood in the washing machine

Anti-Slavery International and Environmental Justice Foundation demand that H&M and Zara boycott cotton from Uzbekistan, following an investigation that links Uzbek cotton to products from both companies.

Censorship fatwa

A group of enlightened white men and women - who were playing the champions of freedom of expression and campaigning against censorship until recently - censored their own magazine.

Ingushetia

The republic has become the most dangerous place in the Russian federation. It is a cycle of bloody atrocity and counter-atrocity that seems to have no end.

Forgotten people, forgotten stories

Some of the most under-reported if not unreported stories of 2009 – ignored or not covered or noted in the margin by the international media.

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