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Emergency funding: an important step toward change
19 March 2008

Joanna Bourke describes her relief that Harriet Harman, Minister for Women has announced £1 million

UK Politics
Rape myths past and present
10 March 2008

Popular prejudices estimate about half rape victims are lying, but research shows just 3% of rape al

Books
When killing had to stop
07 February 2008

For centuries Europe was a prickly landscape of heavily armed nation states. Now the continent has l

Books
An orgy of inhumanity
19 June 2006

The War of the World: history's age of hatred

Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, the

International Politics
Silence in the face of slaughter. The US and Britain have been attacked both for ignoring genocide and for intervening to stop it. After the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the massacres in the Balkans and the wars in Rwanda, are we any closer to the ri
21 July 2003

A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide

Samantha Power Flamingo, 656pp, £9.99

Books
Willing executioners
21 January 2002

The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution

Mark Roseman Allen Lane, The

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