When they said “Revolutions go not backward”, they certainly did not imagine Syria. In the four and a half years of conflict, around 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives while another 11 million are displaced as refugees across the world. The Pro-democracy Protests The pro-democracy protests, which began in March 2011 in Deraa as an […]
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Politics Around the World is a collections of well researched articles in slides format related to politics.
Donald Trump’s Chicago Rally: Protests and Undercurrent of Racism
When media came to know that Donald Trump was outraged because his freedom of speech was violated on Saturday night when his rally in Chicago had to be called off due to protests, they responded by saying that his “fondness for free expression is highly selective.” That was perhaps the drift of the event that […]
Facts about Ted Cruz you should know
Ted Cruz is fast emerging as the man to watch out for in the 2016 US presidential elections. He already has seven wins in his pocket and has begun to give a steady competition to front-runner Donald trump. The Texas Senator, who has his eyes firmly set on the Florida primaries, is currently busy rallying […]
Women Rights Activists the World Must Remember
“I am not going to die, I am going home like a shooting star.” These were the words of a notable African American lady who became the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white man to save her son from slavery. When she passed away in 1883, she had already built the […]
Can Ted Cruz Stop Donald Trump’s Run?
It was only last week when Donald Trump thundered during one of the press conferences, “”I would love to take on Ted Cruz one on one.” This might sound like a man confident of his prospects, but deep within Trump knows that even before he can go into a battle with Hillary Clinton for the […]
The Grim Tale of El Salvador
There are several countries which are plagued with violence and killings, but El Salvador with approximately 6.38 million population, is a lone country where deadly gang war has turned it into the most violent corner of the world. According to the Institute of Legal Medicine in El Salvador, the country reported 6,656 killings last year. […]
How do Drug Networks of Africa Fund ISIS Terrorism?
The rise of ISIS in Africa is inextricably linked with the expansion of drug trafficking networks across the region. A major contributor to this has been the cocaine trade that occurs along the southern coasts of Europe. The militants, in the 2000s, used the route along the North African coast to smuggle cocaine into Europe. […]
Pollsmoor Prison and Criminal Justice in South Africa
“It’s the truth of Oscar Wilde’s haunting line about the tent of Blue that prisoner’s call the sky”. Nelson Mandela quoted Oscar Wilde when he described the conditions at South Africa’s Pollsmoor prison. Officially known as the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, it is where some of the most dangerous criminals are dumped. It is located […]
Will Guantanamo Prison Finally Close?
Guantanamo Bay – the name is enough to send shivers down the spine of even the most hardened terrorist who would otherwise not flinch while murdering thousands of people. The brutal torture techniques applied on detainees made it one of the most feared prisons in the world. But, now, after being in operation for around […]
Why is ISIS Recruiting Children ?
The face of the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq & Syria) is transforming. Its fresh recruits are not only young men from across the world, but its new members also include women fighters, adolescents and children aged anywhere between 8 and 16. The dramatic change in the demography of the ISIS soldiers was initially compared […]