Syria: We Don’t Have Rights, But We Are Alive
A gay soldier in Syria's army speaks about his experience.
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A gay soldier in Syria's army speaks about his experience.
Garissa University was intended to bring opportunity to long-marginalized northern Kenya when it opened in 2011. Its reopening after Al Shabab's 2015 attack provides a second chance to get it right.
Can technology cause children to lose focus in school? And how has it affected an isolated community in Costa Rica?
As young adult men leave for foreign employment opportunities, how is a Nepali village transforming? And how is the absence of young adult men affecting those who are left behind?
One in five children in sub-Saharan Africa die before their fifth birthday and 10 percent of all sub-Saharan Africans are disabled. What are the causes?
At a college in Kurdish Syria, Rojava tries to train its future leaders.
"We're trying to create a new normal." The struggle in Niger to help girls avoid early marriage.
By struggling to feed her family, Sipapei Lekisamba and her fellow Maasai women are disrupting the very foundations of their patriarchal society and earning a right to financial independence.
Women in Tanzania's Oltukai Village are teaching each other how to "wake up" to their own potential—reaching for financial independence in a typically patriarchal society.
Maasai women provide for their families while uniting to fight harsh stigmas against businesswomen.
Can school sanitation help eliminate open defecation in India?
Irish is the official language of Ireland, but its use is in rapid decline, and UNESCO lists it as an endangered language. A community of Irish speakers scrambles to revive their cultural treasure.