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Are human rights just the window dressing of global oppression?

When former Labour Party leader EAMON GILMORE helped spearhead Ireland’s successful national referendum on same-sex marriage, the 2015 Global Thinker hoped the vote might serve as a symbol of progress for queer people in countries where their identities invite persecution. Novelist SALEEM HADDAD wonders, though, why LGBT communities should look to the West for inspiration. The 2016 Global Thinker’s debut novel, Guapa, explores alienation and community in the Middle East through the eyes of

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