Women and Politics Author: Edwin Nebolisa NWAKAEME Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/11/2009 Category: Comment Though so many international laws exist that recognizes and gives rights to women to participate in politics like their male counterparts, women’s participation in politics is still very low in Africa. This

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Drawing on information and opinions of friends on the ground in Central Asia, Suleymanov comments on the recent Kyrgyzstan upheaval, its links to other recent revolutions in the region, and what is to be done to assure the change is a positive one.

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Climate debt anchors on the idea that wealthy nations should pay developing nations for problems arising from global warming. As an emerging discourse, Nicola Bullard defines it as the “debt accumulated by the Northern industrial countries towards the countries and peoples of the South on account of resource plundering, environmental