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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Angelika Albaladejo A "witch hunt against poor women": Across the Americas, abortion laws are harming health and securityRestrictive reproductive policies in El Salvador, Colombia, the U.S., and elsewhere are pushing women toward unsafe procedures. Journalist Angelika Albaladejo argues...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 90–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
... 22.18 to read: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” By changing the word “poisoner” to “witch,” he made women the primary target of persecution. Perhaps more than any other line of sacred text, this biblical edict has been used to justify horrific human rights violations and fuel the epidemic...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 March 2005
... misogyny of the Christian West’s obsession with witches.
Curiously, it was not during the Dark or Middle Ages, but during the Renaissance and
Reformation that the obsession with witches raged through Europe, beginning with Pope
Innocent VII’s notorious papal bull in 1484. During the next three...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 92–94.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 C #D A
“Regime Change” and Other Enigmas
At press time, we cannot be sure whether Saddam Hussein’s witching-hour offer of unre
stricted inspections is meant seriously, or if the Security Council in any case...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the Soviet Air Forces. These “night witches” terrorized the Germans, flying over 30,000 stealth mode missions between 1941 and 1945. (The Dutch didn’t allow women to serve in combat roles until 1979, and the Germans waited until 2001.) Between 1917 and the late 1960s, when elite American universities...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 25–34.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., the outcome, after eliminating the papal inquisition, was a Protestant inquisition. It doesn’t mean you have a bright future. You may end up hunting for Salem witches. You cannot just create a new, perfect world. And yes, removing all these dictators—the Mubaraks, Qaddafis, Saddams, Assads—will most likely...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the ballot box.” To compare the Rousseff impeachment trial to a witch trial, with the sexist imagery and fear of powerful women this metaphor conveys, is not to overstate the point. The most indelible scene from the impeachment process came after the Chamber of Deputies, a body in which women occupy...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 108–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of the men’s faces, lives ruined almost instantly. Following the Egyptian military’s ouster of democratically-elected president Mohammad Morsi in the Summer of 2013, Egypt has embarked on a well-publicized witch hunt of men who have sex with men (who may or may not identify themselves as gay) and male...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 43–50.
Published: 01 June 2003
... of genetically could improve yields in developing coun
modified StarLink corn approved only for tries have remained on laboratory shelves
animal feed in supermarket taco shells. because the profits have been elsewhere,
Zambia’s refusal of U.S. food aid pushed mainly in North America. In Africa, witch...
