Opinion: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, former Pakistan ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan. "...Given the...
AFGHANISTAN: Time for Pakistan to walk the talk on Afghanistan
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ON THE MEDIA: In West Bank, Witnesses To Conflict Are Using Video To Document What They See, NPR
This week, Israel will sentence a soldier convicted of killing a wounded Palestinian man last year in Hebron. A Palestinian shoemaker recorded a...
HAITI: Poem – i want to talk about haiti.
Poem of the Day: quaking conversation BY LENELLE MOÏSE i want to talk about haiti. how the earth had to break the island’s spine to wake the world...
ON THE MEDIA: The View From Room 205
Can schools make the American Dream real for poor students? ON THE MEDIA: A powerful radio documentary on the appalling state of US education in...
HAITI, ON DEVELOPMENT: How This Social Entrepreneur Is Moving Haiti Away From Aid Toward Trade
Haitian social entrepreneur and impact investor, Daniel Jean-Louis, is working on multiple fronts to reduce Haiti's reliance on aid and increase...
HAITI: The Case for Haitian Reparations | Jacobin
Haitians are asking the French government to return some of what was stolen. For a brief moment recently, Haiti dominated the news cycle. As always,...
AFGHANISTAN: Thanks to this Afghan woman, 6,000 imams have taken gender-sensitivity training – CSMonitor.com
Jamila Afghani, who has battled discrimination since childhood, uses Islam to empower women in Afghanistan. She is committed to continuing the work...
ON DEVELOPMENT: How successful were the Millennium Development Goals? | Brookings Institution
John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen examine if the Millennium Development Goals made any difference by comparing the trajectories of MDG indicators...
ON THE MEDIA: Declaration of Dependence – The Local News Lab
Communities and news organizations working together will transform local journalism. Here’s how. Source: Declaration of Dependence – The Local News...
HAITI: Want to Help Haitians: Support Haitian Led Orgs… | Mark Schulle
1) Support the initiatives led by Haitian people and groups 2) If we contribute aid to a foreign agency, demand they post their decisions...
HAITI: 7th anniversary of earthquake: An Inconvenient Truth | Haiti Support Group
...Haitians did not powerlessly watch Matthew wash through their land, waiting for foreign aid to appear. They have banded together – families,...
ON THE MEDIA, HAITI: Interested in Haiti? Read this book: Why Haiti Needs New Narratives by Gina Athena Ulysse
Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of...