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IN SOLIDARITY.

We often draw lines amongst ourselves via geographic location and class labels such as “first world” versus “third world.”

The political, socioeconomic and environmental issues we face globally however, are not so keen to these distinctions. One country’s problems spill into another, and trying to solve one issue is like pulling at the loose end of your headphones after they’ve been sitting in your pocket for an afternoon.

Our perceptions of other countries are often surface level — Europe doesn’t exist only through the frame of the world’s premiere backpacking destination, and Africa isn’t the macrocosm of humanitarian disasters.

Each flag on this piece was chosen to call attention to an issue that may otherwise have been glossed over. It is by no means an exhaustive list but, we encourage you to look into these and other issues in greater detail.

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RUSSIA: Edward Snowden's asylum sparks government vs personal privacy debate.
UKRAINE: Civilians displaced due to RUSSIA’s annexation of Crimea region.
MEXICO: Record high U.S. deportations continue to displace families.
USA: Violent outbreaks swell as social and political ideologies polarize the country.
CHINA: Censorship remains on the forefront in it’s growing contemporary society.
JAPAN: Raised tensions with CHINA over South China Sea dispute.
UK: Brexit now threatens a potential collapse of the European Union.
FRANCE: Terrorism forces intervention in the Middle East.
SYRIA: Millions flee country in fear of oppressive Asad regime
ISRAEL: Violence continues over ongoing territorial conflict with Palestine.

IRAN: Iran bans travel to Saudi Arabia for Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
SAUDI ARABIA: Clashes between religious sects escalate within neighboring countries.
IRAQ: Destabilization in the war-torn region gives rise to ISIL.
GERMANY: Open its arms to approx. a million refugees and asylum seekers.
N. KOREA: Threaten global security with proliferation of it’s nuclear arms.
S. KOREA: Possibility of violent conflict with North Korea is ever present.
CUBA: Increasing presence of foreign interests pose risk to Cuban culture.
CANADA: Takes steps to reduce the national footprint on global climate.
PALESTINE: Conflicts ensue over the establishment of their own nation-state.
HONG KONG: Protests and civil unrest over election and democracy silenced by CHINA.

LIBYA: Mass insurgencies and lawlessness have taken form following its civil war.
TURKEY: Pres. Erdogan aims to reshape country as a single monotheistic nation.
INDIA: India has approx. 18 million plus forced laborers, more than any other country.
AFGHANISTAN: Number of disenfranchised grow due to the last decades of conflict.
GREECE: The understatement of its deficit played a large hand in Europe’s debt crisis.
BRAZIL: Pres. Rousseff suspended of power in wake of a controversial political coup.
YEMEN: The death toll of children both engaged and caught in warfare continues to rise.
PHILIPPINES: Actions by pres.-elect Duterte pose a threat to the country’s future of human rights.
MYANMAR: Buddhist extremists continue persecution and genocide of local Muslims.
S. AFIRCA: Xenophobia begins to breed tensions over issues of immigration.

PAKISTAN: Remains an epicenter in the region to military and religious insurgencies.
HAITI: Struggles to combat widespread incapacitating disease and poverty.
AUSTRALIA: Home to mammal soon to be made extinct by human-driven climate change.
ITALY: Faces pressure both domestic and from EU to reevaluate its pro-immigration stance.
NETHERLANDS: Found liable to reparations after discovered links to Srebrenica massacre.
UGANDA: Hostilities towards LGBT groups increase as discrimination becomes legalized.
S. SUDAN: Deadly fever outbreaks with unknown origins sweeps over nation.
FINLAND: Temperatures climbing faster than anywhere in the world due to global warming.
KIRIBATI: Climate change has altered sea levels rendering an island now uninhabitable.
BURUNDI: A failed coup leaves country stagnate in face of necessary changes.

LIBERIA: Resurgence of ebola virus once again rattles the population.
VIETNAM: US embargo lifted in hopes of urging labor and environmental reforms.
TIBET: Unrest remains high over human rights violations by CHINA towards separatists.
PERU: Livelihood of indigenous inhabitants threatened by deforestation in the Amazon.
ARGENTINA: Relations with BRITAIN still troubled over Falklands Island territories.
PUERTO RICO: Foreign debt paralyzes the country forcing basic facilities to be closed.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Haitian migrants expelled in acts of ethnic cleansing.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis challenges religious approaches to evolving social issues.
SINGAPORE: Begins to face a host of socioeconomic issues as population ages rapidly.
TAIWAN: Discussions over culture and identity create talks of sovereignty from CHINA.

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