Drone strikes: Are they legal or not?
Drones are becoming more and more common in our daily lives, from dji to amazon delivery drones. However, drones are not only used to take aerial photographs; in recent years, they have been used as military weapons. So, if they are being used in war zones, why do we rarely hear about them? A man walking past a graffiti painted on a wall in Sanaa, denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen (source: KHALED ABDULLAH/ REUTER) Drones have not been in use in war for long, but it h
Security vs. liberty: China's Orwellian dystopia?
Described by The Economist as ‘the digital totalitarian state’, China’s social-credit system may well be run on a national scale by 2020. Whilst the Chinese government believes that it will help solve food safety problems, crack-down on corruption and academic dishonesty, critics of the system call it the ultimate Orwellian dystopia. With the advance of technology, governmental use of big data and surveillance ‘to protect the interest of the people’ is entering a grey area, b
Drop Earrings Not Bombs
Since the beginning of the Syrian Crisis, Turkey has accepted around three million Syrian refugees, more than any other country has. Germany, second to Turkey in this respect, has accepted just over 1.8 million, and is seen as one of the most generous European countries for its acceptance of refugees. Small Projects Istanbul ‘Small Projects Istanbul’ (SPI) is an NGO based in Istanbul, run entirely by volunteers and donations. It aims to provide financial aid and support for r
February 2017 Monthly Goodreads
Welcome to our February 2017 Monthly Goodreads! Articles Melinda Gates: I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Today Without Contraceptives (Fortune) London Stock Exchange/Deutsche Boerse merger in doubt (BBC news) Hundreds' of US Jewish graves attached in Philadelphia (BBC news) Yemen: Art, love, bombs and bans (Al Jazeera) US: Remembering Japanese internment camps 75 years on (Al Jazeera) Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library (Al Jazeera) 100 days of demonetisation: Sto
