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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 118–123.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Sophie Bader Across the border in Nepal, the methods employed to force toilet use are not as extreme, but they are controversial. Until the 2015 earthquake that killed 9,000 people derailed government efforts, Nepal had been diligently working toward declaring the country open defecation free...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 56–57.
Published: 01 June 2017
... [ ] access to press/legal system Bed Foldable Bed Closet Desk Window Toilet Sink Bucket SUMMER 2017 57 Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., the anthropologist, conducted a survey that found that 30 percent of the camps had no toilet facilities. Another survey found that the average of number of people sharing a toilet in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area was 273. Toilets are often set apart from camps, and at night men often hide inside or near...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 108–118.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of the compounds where the Soviets housed foreign journalists and news bureaus, guarded by uniformed KGB and carefully isolated from the Russian people. “I never believed again in the myth of Soviet power and invincibility,” he would tell everyone after that experience. “Any country that can’t make a toilet...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 26–36.
Published: 01 December 2015
... to the country’s most vulnerable citizens. But the price controls have led to widespread shortages, ballooning inflation, a thriving black market for hard-to-access goods like toilet paper, shampoo, and diapers, and at supermarkets, looting, fighting, and lines that span blocks. Producers of goods face insolvency...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 85–96.
Published: 01 December 2014
... folk songs,” Misha said. “On the one hand, it was totally absurd. On the other hand, it probably saved us. You don’t know what day it is. You’re starving all the time, don’t know how long you’re going to live. You go to the toilet maybe once a day, [and] the smell is overwhelming.” “you have one...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., Russia’s RT, Iran’s Press TV, and Venezuela’s teleSUR), creating an international ideological coalition that attempts to veil strategies of oppression. This explains why, at the same time there is a shortage of toilet paper in Venezuela, the state owns and manages two satellites in space (and will launch...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 19–24.
Published: 01 June 2016
... expanded Dharavi’s infrastructure. The area lacks basic civic amenities like toilets and sewage disposal. But where people could have a modicum of control—for example, when residents could make their own homes and design the interiors—they excel. It is remarkable how schizophrenic the experience...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 18–22.
Published: 01 December 2016
... detained at least nine of the organizers for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” an ill-defined charge that’s difficult to contest. I had heard of a few of the activists before. I was vaguely familiar with their “Occupy Men’s Toilets” protest that advocated for more women’s restrooms...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 107–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... accepting a union arranged by parents. They are the first generation to adopt the custom of bringing the toilet from the outhouse into the middle of the home. They are the first to give their toddlers tricycles and blow-up plastic pools to splash in and let them watch Tom and Jerry cartoons on TV; the first...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 108–115.
Published: 01 September 2014
... was forced to import everything from bread makers to toilet paper and clothing. Trade imbalances, such as these, ultimately crippled the country. By the end of 2008, it had become virtually impossible to import much-needed commodities, such as bread and eggs, and provide critical amenities, like...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 30–37.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of story, having inaugurated the protest by pouring onto it waste from the leak-prone tanks of the portable flushing toilets many black residents in the townships around Cape Town live with in their homes. And they did not back down from their demand, even when the consensus opinion at the time...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 71–78.
Published: 01 March 2006
... blogger wrote: place within Iranian society, where the “I’ve been paying attention to the graffiti in righteous and pious are being marginalized the office toilet recently: Death to the Mul­ and mocked by an elite that has been cor­ lahs’ ass lickers, Death to the Mullah pimps, rupted by the West...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 59–67.
Published: 01 June 2012
... worried about his children’s stalled education in the camp. He complained about the lack of privacy, the cold tents during winter, the overcrowding. “In Reyhanli, you had to walk 300 feet to the toilet. You had to walk 300 feet to the bath in the cold.” Moreover, they were all but out of touch...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 78–87.
Published: 01 September 2013
... with the beds all stacked together with industrial workers sleeping like fish in a can,” the former secondary school teacher says. “The ratio could be one toilet for 20 people. There’s no ventilation, and the heat is unbearable in the summertime. It’s very easy to become sick.” Colds, diarrhea, high fevers...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 June 2016
...: An estimated 330 million people are scrambling for secure, clean drinking water; unwatered crops are withering; coal-powered plants are shutting down without water to power them; and plumbing systems have run dry, forcing people to abandon toilets en masse. The government is setting up armed guards at dams...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 100–112.
Published: 01 June 2014
... that is not reprocessed. So far in Japan it has been mostly stored at the domestic nuclear plants in spent fuel pools and dry cask storage. These storage areas have been filling up fast. One insider suggested not dealing with the nuclear waste issue in the industry was like “building a house without a toilet...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 55–64.
Published: 01 June 2001
... toilets smell of disinfectant. In the but all employees of the Patriarchate must refectory, the benches are arranged around also be Turkish citizens. “When there is the table in a neat horseshoe shape. In the good will,” says Tarasios, “the state makes a cavernous library, not a single leather-bound...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 21–33.
Published: 01 June 2011
... are modest; more than a hundred people share a common toilet. Saye Guinkpa has just returned home from central Monrovia, where he earns $250 a month working as a trainee at the Ministry of Justice. In a white T-shirt and khakis, the 30-year-old emerges from the two-room unit he shares with his girlfriend...
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