by Priyanka Bhardwaj –India– Every afternoon 8-year-old Raj Kumar and his younger sibling trudge along the ten kilometer expanse of Golf Course Road to take free classes at a school ensconced in a posh pocket of Gurgaon in the Indian…
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India Surges Towards An Education Democracy
Tagged with: Economic Inequality, Education, India, Policy
Posted in Economy, Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in Economy, Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Advocacy Tours Transform Local Development Issues into Tourist Spectacles
by Katie Palmer –Canada– Recently I partnered with a colleague from OneChild, a children’s rights organization, to travel throughout Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand for several weeks to investigate prevalent social issues affecting children and youth in the region. Such issues…
Tagged with: Economic Inequality, NGO's, poverty, Southeast Asia, Tourism
Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES
Borei Keila Evictions Highlights Economic Hierarchy Among Poor in Cambodia
by Michelle Tolson –Cambodia– On January 12th, 2012 I traveled 45 km outside of Phnom Penh with a group of human rights workers and journalists to a relocation site for the evictees of the Borei Keila slum, which had been…
Tagged with: Cambodia, Displacement, Economic Inequality, human rights, Politics, poverty
Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES
Another 5 years of Karzai: An Afghan-American Perspective from Kabul
by Wazhmah Osman – Afghanistan/USA – I was born in Kabul, Afghanistan during the good years, in the early seventies. Among my fondest memories is walking to and from school holding the hand of my stylish mother who was then…
Tagged with: Afghanistan, Economic Inequality, Economy, Karzai, Middle East, Politics, Taliban
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
