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An international convention devised after the second world war is ill-suited to the refugee crises of today\u2014and countries are increasingly unwilling to meet their obligations. Vancouver\u2019s proposed response to a spate of drug overdoses is a sweeping decriminalisation; we ask whether the plan would work. And the bid to save a vanishingly rare \u201cclick language\u201d in Africa.

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