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The Art of Speaking Truth To Power: Reflections on the C20 Summit
Written by Amanda Cahill
Just over a week ago I joined around 400 civil society representatives at the C20 Summit in Melbourne to draft a communique to present to G20 leaders for consideration in their deliberations during July and November. From the outset, tension hung in the air around the question as to whether participating […]
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Social inclusion through social enterprise: addressing indigenous disadvantage in Cairns
Written by Dominika Ricardi
Cairns is a paradise: lush, green and tropical; yet up to 1500 sleep rough or homeless each night, many of them indigenous. Homelessness is but one of the challenges indigenous people in Australia face; another is unemployment due to systemic challenges such as discrimination and poorer health and literacy outcomes. […]
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Roma in Bulgaria: a neglected abandoned minority
Written by Nikoleta Popkostadinova
At the moment Bulgaria is governed by a caretaker government appointed by the president because the ruling party GERB resigned at the end of February after a series of country-wide protests. They started innocently enough against the unexpectedly high electricity bills people were unable to pay. All that citizens wanted […]
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Egypt’s Patriotic Women: The Example of Shahenda Maklad
Written by Fady Salah
Future Challenges interviews elderly feminist and labor activist Shahenda Maklad
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Creating a Common Future: The Asian–European Young Leaders Forum-Day 1
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
“One can be a senior leader at a very young age and a young leader at an advanced age.…so age is not a determining factor for participating in such a Forum” Indeed, the above Forum on Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, organized to see how politics and business […]
