While Woeser and her husband Wang Lixiong were under house arrest, a delegation of foreign journalists was being taken on a stage-managed visit to Tibet. This delegation prompted Woeser’s to write about two similar delegations that had been taken to Tibet in 2008.
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Joshua Oppenheimer talks about his academy award-nominated documentary, The Act of Killing, which focuses on the Indonesian killings of 1965–1966. He also discusses interviewing the death squad leaders and the culture of violence that keeps the past hidden in Indonesia.
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Life is words in action, literature is action in words. Humans are about to destroy their spaceship Earth. Some of them are aware of this and they try to change the course of events. Will they […]
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Switzerland and migrants. The European Union has suspended talks about Swiss research and education in the EU after a Swiss vote to curb immigration.
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Though Facebook has over 1.23 billion users around the world, these 10 countries have political leaders who don’t want their citizens to have access to the site, or who have banned it amid fears that it could be used to organize political rallies.
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Close to 99% of crimes against journalists and the media are committed with impunity in Mexico. Learn more about who is being targeted and who is responsible.
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Editorial cartoonist Jehad Awrtani (Jordan) on the surge of deaths in Syria, as the Geneva talks falter.
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