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Advocacy Tours Transform Local Development Issues into Tourist Spectacles

Posted on April 13, 2012 by katie palmer — No Comments ↓

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…

Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country

Posted on October 2, 2009 by jessica mosby — 1 Comment ↓

by Jessica Mosby – USA – Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a closed country, literally. Since the 1962 military coup, few outsiders have even entered the Southeast Asian country. News reports are scarce and often unreliable because the news…

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