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For decades, abortion was considered a private matter in Ecuador. Now women who terminate—or lose—pregnancies are facing prosecution and prison timehttps://mondediplo.com/openpage/ecuador-abortion …

Taiwan’s parliament has legalised same-sex marriage, making the island the first country in Asia to do sohttps://mondediplo.com/2017/12/12taiwan …

.@CameliaFard: ‘It seems that Tehran now wants a mediator to help ease tensions, while Trump prefers direct talks and transparency’https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/iran-us-two-presidents …

All Sudan’s mass movements, including the current one, were able to take shape because of recurring political combat and class strugglehttps://mondediplo.com/2019/05/04sudan 

Here’s a Catch-22: the EU’s treaties enforce austerity, encourage financial sector control of governments, and cause misery for the working class. But revising them will lead to Germany leaving, and the collapse of the eurohttps://mondediplo.com/2019/03/11europe-reform …

Volodymyr Zelensky will be inaugurated president of Ukraine on May 20. Zelensky promised to rid the Rada (parliament), police and judiciary of the influence of oligarchs. It is unclear whether he will enforce Poroshenko’s policy on the use of Ukrainianhttps://mondediplo.com/2019/05/05ukraine …

The heiress of the Choco Leibniz biscuit fortune was called out this week for claiming that, under Nazi rule, forced labourers in her family’s factories were well treated. The reality of Nazi exploitation of foreign workers is well documentedhttps://mondediplo.com/1998/01/11volkswag …

In an escalation of the US-China trade war, the Trump administration has threatened to prevent Huawei from buying parts from US suppliers and banned it from selling its products in the US. For its part, China has accused the US of industrial sabotagehttps://mondediplo.com/2018/10/03china-us …

The billionaire leader of Foxconn and Taiwan’s richest man, Terry Gou, has announced that he will run in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. How would Gou navigate Taiwan’s precarious position between China and the US?https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/terry-gou …

Angela Merkel has said that Europe must ‘reposition itself’ in order to meet the challenges of the US, China, Russia. ‘Germany, like other imperial countries, most recently the US, conceives of itself as a benevolent hegemon’https://mondediplo.com/2019/05/06eu 

For decades, abortion was considered a private matter in Ecuador. Now women who terminate—or lose—pregnancies are facing prosecution and prison time @ZoeSCarpenterhttps://mondediplo.com/openpage/ecuador-abortion …

‘It's a case of showing that feminism is a real solution, especially at a time when the far right and reactionary movements are gaining strength throughout our region’ —Alondra Carillo, Chilean organiserhttps://mondediplo.com/2019/05/09chile 

.@astradisastra: ‘Both Nishnaabeg and Haudenosaunee law dictates that leaders must take the needs of the next seven generations of their respective communities into account’https://mondediplo.com/openpage/traditions-of-the-future …

In Ecuador as in Alabama, women are being criminalised for terminating pregnancies, or even miscarrying, as the erosion of women’s bodily autonomy continues apace. @ZoeSCarpenter via our friends @thenationhttps://mondediplo.com/openpage/ecuador-abortion …

.@tgoudsouzian: ‘In many ways, Iraq is centre stage in the US policy to “push back on Iran”. ’https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/look-at-the-map-the-us-iraq-and-iran …