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Global justice and the social

Miriam Temin and Ruth Levine and Sandy Stonesifer (CGD): Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health. Frank A. Pasquale (Seton Hall): Access to Medicine in an Era of Fractal Inequality. From Ethics and International Affairs, Sridhar Venkatapuram (UCL): Global Justice and the Social Determinants of Health. From the International Journal of Conflict and Violence, a special issue on Collective Memories of Colonial Violence, including Chris G. Sibley (Auckland): The Dark Duo of Post-Colonial Ideology: A Model of Symbolic Exclusion and Historical Negation; and Keri Lawson-Te Aho and James H. Liu (Wellington): Indigenous Suicide and Colonization: The Legacy of Violence and the Necessity of Self-Determination. From International NGO Journal, Amanda Murdie (KSU): The Impact of Human Rights NGO Activity on Human Rights Practices. From Diversities, a special issue on the human rights of migrants. A world ever more on the move: Pick almost any headline in the news, and between the lines, there is a chapter in the story of global migration. A revolution in global aid to the poor: Here's a radical idea to tackle world poverty — give money straight to the poor (and more). The BP crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has laid bare the harm caused by the plunder of natural resources, but a new approach could finally reap benefits for the world’s “bottom billion” people. Honesty for Hire: A few countries have found a way to stop graft and foster political stability — hire foreigners to collect their revenue. A review of “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die”: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor by Geoffrey Robinson. From Freedom House, a look at the least free places on Earth. From UN Dispatch, what will it take to enroll every child in school in the developing world?