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Outside OX1 Week 5: Chagos, Myanmar and Venezuela

by Daniel Burns, Isolde Sellin and Devika Manish Kumar May 31, 2025May 31, 2025
ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) A woman waits her turn at the Pacific Partnership community health engagement in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)
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Bougainville: A Long Wait for Independence Continues

by Devika Manish Kumar May 29, 2025May 29, 2025
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Outside OX1 Week 2 – South Korea, Mali, Kashmir and Gaza

by Daniel Burns, Tom Barrett, Devika Manish Kumar and Elana Roberts May 10, 2025May 10, 2025
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WHO Members Conclude Negotiations on Pandemic Treaty

by Devika Manish Kumar May 5, 2025May 5, 2025
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Outside OX1 Week 1: Canada, Kashmir, Conflict and Crackdowns

by Daniel Burns, Elana Roberts, Tom Barrett, Isolde Sellin and Devika Manish Kumar May 3, 2025June 13, 2025

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Devika Manish Kumar Jan 22, 2026 11 min read
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“As a person of colour and granddaughter of an immigrant, if these experiences and the “good” immigrant rhetoric has taught me anything, it is that…

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Image by Jason Manning, used with permission The Oxford Union has unveiled its much-anticipated termcard for Hilary Term 2026. This comes after a longer-than-usual delay…

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