She woke up and thought “What have they done to me?”. The ambulance left her where the road ends, 30 minutes from her home in the Andes of Peru.  She walked, recently operated, to reach home. This the story of Demetria one of the women subject to compulsory sterilization within the framework of public policy
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Which state in the world has the funny geographical shape? If I were to answer, it would be the state of Palestine or the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and looking at the map below, it is obvious why. Here is a breakdown of the West bank map as designed in the Oslo II Accord:  
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     With the start of the 20th century, America became one of the most powerful economies in the world. With an abundance of steel, iron, money and modern construction techniques, it seemed natural that the course of action was to build massive structures that would show the newly accumulated wealth.      Starting in Chicago in
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This is an article that probably should have been published on March 8th. I recently read an article in the Economist entitled “Economics is uncovering its gender problem” that intended to express a quite often encountered reality: women participation in labor force is overshadowed. Economics is not the exception, and that is the reason why
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On the 7th of May, the Room for Discussion hosted an interview with Mark van Baal, the founder of Follow This. Follow This is a group of responsible shareholders in oil and gas companies who push for action against climate change. They choose to fight against the anthropogenic climate change by putting on the companies’
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Room for Discussion is proud to announce that they will be hosting an interview with Martin Wolf – chief economics commentator of the Financial Times – on the 15th of May at 13:00 in E-hall. In 2000 Mr. Wolf was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) “for services to financial
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