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Decades after the country introduced quotas, phantom candidacies and political deals still stifle women’s representation.
Months after an informal settlement’s demolition, the site is under development as displaced residents grapple with ...
The issue doesn’t affect Kyambogo University alone. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, in October 2019 security ...
Women who lived through Indonesia’s anti-communist terror blend art and protest to block government plans that would honor ...
United by grief, they’re fighting to make the former president answer for extrajudicial killings during his campaign against ...
The short-lived sale is just the latest example in a long line of inconsistent policies, says Ithiel Mavesere, a lecturer in ...
A 2019 change in funding to prevent fraud has hampered universities' abilities to update equipment and to offer certain programs. Medical programs are particularly affected.
Hai Rembulan practices Jaipongan, a Sundanese traditional dance from West Java, with visitors at Kongsi 8 in East Jakarta. Rembulan, who spent time with her father’s family in West Java, says dance ...
SHEEMA, UGANDA — Evangelista Kanohili sits on a mat on the earthen ground outside her tin-roof mud hut in Bwayegamba, a rural parish in western Uganda. Her dusty bare feet are stretched in front of ...
In Nepal, local schools are encouraged to offer instruction in the first languages of their students. But even in linguistically diverse regions, the only words they still hear and read are in Nepali.
Dharavi, Asia’s largest informal settlement, is home to over 1 million people. Narrow lanes, exposed electrical wires and closely packed homes define the neighborhood. Its location between two major ...
Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe Joice Mujuru, a veteran of Zimbabwe’s fight for independence, hopes her decades in government leadership are enough to convince voters that she should be her country’s next ...