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Take away what people need to live - food, water, shelter and gasoline - and there's bound to be trouble. The government of Nigeria has learned this the hard way after it decided to end fuel ...
Although the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been widely contested, incumbent President Joseph Kabila was sworn in on Tuesday after he claimed to have won the Nov. 28 election in ...
After 40,000 Russians faced freezing temperatures and snow to protest on Saturday, President Dmitry Medvedev called for a probe into election fraud, which demonstrators allege took place during December's parliamentary elections. Despite Russian ...
Since the 1980s, a Ugandan rebel group calling themselves the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been raping and murdering civilians and turning young children into killing machines in an area of Africa that includes ...
Russian protestors took to the streets in Moscow over the past three days in Arab Spring-like protests alleging election fraud in Russia’s parliamentary elections, which took place on Sunday. But instead of Russia’s ...
Vittana was born out of the belief that education is about connecting people to opportunity. In the developing world many young people are earning from $3 to $5 per day and can’t afford to ...
Earlier this month Edit Schaffler, Executive Director of Women Without Borders, came to New York City to tell the world that mothers can stop terrorism in its tracks: “We see potential change coming from the ...
Toshi Nakamura and Ewa Wojkowska worked for the United Nations for a decade in Indonesia, Sierra Leone and across Asia. Although they saw some very interesting projects and important initiatives, they also saw a tremendous ...
It looks like Palestine’s hopes for being granted full membership to the United Nations may be dashed. A UN admissions committee could not reach a consensus and get the nine votes the Palestinian Authority ...
“In Mexico journalists are becoming an endangered species,” said Adela Navarro Bello as she stood on stage in New York to accept a Courage in Journalism Award from The International Women’s Media Foundation. Navarro ...
The World Bank’s recently released 2012 World Development Report on gender equality and development has some encouraging news and some not-so-encouraging news. First, for the glass-half-full perspective: The report found that in all developed ...
The last several years has seen an abundance of attention focused on the education of – and investment in- girls and women to end cycles of poverty and improve the health of communities. Think Nike’s ...
When Liberia’s Leymah Gbowee and thousands of her countrywomen spent two years peacefully protesting the war in Liberia, they knew they were following in the footsteps of women who had gone before them. Gbowee ...
The Special US Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern, said he is “not pessimistic” about a climate change conference scheduled for later this year but he warned that the US will back a revised Kyoto ...
When actress Meryl Streep stood up and read the words of Zarcquona, an Afghan woman, at the Women in the World Foundation gala launch in New York City, she embodied everything that Daily Beast and ...
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