Newsfeed from Afghanistan: A woman sets herself on fire in protest to a forced marriage to a man three times her age; a six-year-old girl is given as repayment for her father’s gambling debt; a daughter is killed by her …
In 2004, when asked about the state of his country, an ordinary Burundian is known to have said, ‘we can’t eat the constitution.’ Five years after the fall of the Taliban, the same sentiment echoes across Afghanistan. On the one …
Since 1974, the absolute number of democracies in the world has almost tripled. Only in the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa did this ‘third wave of democracy’ have little impact; these countries still include not one …
