Politics + Society is our mainstay here at The Conversation Global: just over half of our coverage focuses on international relations,
inequality, gender equality, protest movements, modern slavery and other pressing political issues.
So, in case you missed a few stories along the way, today we're resurfacing some of the best political pieces that flew under the radar.
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Lina Abirafeh, Lebanese American University
Unless we’re addressing inequalities everywhere, we will achieve equality nowhere.
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‘My body does not need your opinion’.
Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
Larissa Arroyo Navarrete, University of Costa Rica
The case of a 12-year-old Costa Rican girl, who was raped by her father and denied an abortion, is dividing a nation that prides itself on its human rights record.
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War, Ford, fascism, Reaganomics, the pink tide, the EU, debt crises, rights-based activism, a fierce backlash… none of this is new.
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César Renduels Menendez de Llano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Donatella Della Porta, Institute of Human and Social sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here's what history tells us about today.
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Protesters march past the venue for the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017 meeting in Durban, South Africa.
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Fabio Andres Diaz, International Institute of Social Studies
Popular protest is on the rise globally, particularly in places with deeply entrenched inequalities.
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Lives of extreme poverty make Indonesian women and children easy prey for human traffickers.
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Karina Utami Dewi, Universitas Islam Indonesia
Human trafficking is a growing problem in Indonesia and, despite support from regional neighbours, the country isn't making much progress.
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The Merkez mosque in the Kreuzberg neighbourhood of Berlin is run by Turkey’s Dinayet agency, like 900 other mosques in Germany.
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Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, Université de Strasbourg
The religious arm of Turkey's government, Dinayet, has European authorities up in arms after leaked documents suggested the agency was engaged in international espionage.
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