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Indonesian Women and Virginity: Requestioning Structural Challenges and Human Rights

Authors: Lamtiar N. S. M. Nababan, Larasati Primaputri, Talitha Nurhaliza* Virginity testing towards women has been seen as something outdated and irrelevant, as virginity is...

The “Feminist” Label Trap: Factors Contributing to Sweden’s Abandonment of Their FFP Agenda

In 2014 Sweden established their FFP or its Feminist Foreign Policy, the first of its kind, an agenda that aims to bring feminism into...

Not All Viruses Are Created Equal: The Case of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) vs. COVID-19

Viruses have always had a strange way of capturing the imagination. They’re not simply biological entities; they have become cultural symbols. When a virus's...

Driving Transformation: The Crucial Role of Youth in Promoting the SDGs

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the 17 global objectives that have been instituted by the United Nations in its 2015 Agenda for the...

The Global Crisis of Bullshit Culture and Media Manipulation

The American philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt's 2005 book, On Bullshit (originally an article from 1986), offers a theory of bullshit that defines the term...

The Truth in Crisis: Navigating the Post-Truth Age

In an age where information is available at the touch of a button, the world finds itself facing a crisis of truth. The rise...

2024: We Are The People

2024 was a strange transitional year replete with  paradoxes and contradictions. It has been the year, in incredible unsettling global and societal ways, the...

The Rise of Echo Chambers in a Connected World

Human society has experienced major changes throughout history, from the agricultural revolution to the industrial and digital eras. Each of these changes has deeply...

The Heat of Violence: Climate Change and Gender-Based Abuse

According to the UN data, women constitute a staggering 80% of those displaced by climate change and face a 14-fold higher risk of death...

Holiday Lessons from a Dog, a Rat, and a Wasp … Will You Play with Me?

There is nothing quite like the joy of playing fetch with an exuberant dachshund thrilled at the sight of a new toy.  Or the...

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