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Divorce is as common in Niger as in Norway
DIVORCE: Despite variations in bride prices, getting married in Niger can be costly, and women are obligated to repay the bride price in the event of a divorce.
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Underrepresented participants of war
CONFLICT: Fleeing one war and entering into another, the grief and uncertainty of one Syrian family beg the question: what drives a person to serve a country that doesn’t always appreciate the sacrifice?
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Humans of no nation
REFUGEES: Since 2016, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar making the Kutupalong refugee camp one of the biggest in the world.
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Can we live together?
CONFLICT: Two women navigate their lives in Beirut three decades past its civil war
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Hopeless endeavours down the supply chain
CAPITALISM: No justice in a world where Third World workers are as disposable as the cheap garments they make.
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Forty years in Nicaragua, dreaming
LIFE: Shot over 40 years, an epic about one woman’s struggle for independence requiring her to face her past in the macho-culture of Central America.
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Freedom of expression, extremism, and the role of the media
INEQUALITY: An anthology that addresses important topics such as freedom of expression, globalisation, extremism, minorities, and inequality in the world, but many of the authors try to tackle too much.
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Decolonise feminism!
FEMINISM: The message in the new and well-written book by the French political scientist Françoise Vergès is that Western feminists must lift their gaze and see that, through their own struggles, they are keeping their fellow sisters down.
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Molenbeek through the eyes of children
CHILDHOOD: Aatos and Amine are deep thinkers, bright and curious. We follow the life of these two six-year-olds in Molenbeek – a multi-ethnic suburb in Brussels – discovering different ways of thinking about god(s) and pondering about life and its aftermath.