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Traditional authorities resolve inner-community disputes in Bolivia’s Potosí District.

Legal pluralism

An intercultural model

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by Peter Strack
Civil war crimes often go unpunished: a refugee camp in North Darfur.

Global Governance

Misguided criticism

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by Kai Ambos
Programmes to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS can also be used for the prevention of teenage pregnancies: project in Accra, Ghana.

Teenage pregnancy

Right to childhood

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by Barbara Mayrhofer
Lawyers' celebrating Iftikhar Chaudhry's reinstatement as chief justice in March 2009.

Separation of powers

Ambiguous ambitions

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by Maryam S. Khan
In rural areas, justice is administered according to tradition: a village chief in Cameroon.

Legal and judicial systems

Lawyers for the poor

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by Lothar Jahn
Global reach: Amnesty International activists demonstrated against Egyptian security-force violence in Seoul in September.

Civil society

Global reach

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by Helene Wolf
Young man reading headlines at a news stand in Dakar in 2009.

Media

Severe sentence

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by Abdou Lo
Donor governments do not feel up to the daunting challenge of enforcing peace in the huge DRC: UN peacekeeper in Goma in 2012.

Genocide

Protection from atrocities

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by Floreana Miesen
Sinhalese Buddhism ceased to be a non-violent doctrine long ago: sculptures on sale near the eastern coastal city of Trincomalee in 2010.

South Asia

Still estranged

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by Bettina Meier
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