Education

Colombian farmers combine agriculture, ecology to solve economic, health woes

September 11, 2019

Carlos Osorio has an honorary degree in agroecology from the University of California, Berkeley, and uses his farm to train a new generation of local farmers — and bring city-slicker Colombians and foreign visitors to the farm to tell his story and reconnect them to the land.

Displacement

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

The World

September 11, 2019

Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.

Gender

'Intersex' is counted in Kenya's census — but is this a victory?

GlobalPost

September 10, 2019

Activists hope this will set a precedent for intersex rights in Kenya, but intersex inclusion is still far from reality.

Facebook wants to create a 'Supreme Court' for content moderation. Will it work?

The World

September 05, 2019

Updated

09/17/2019 - 4:00pm

Every day, Facebook has to make difficult and consequential decisions about what should stay or go on its platform. Now, it's turning to outsiders for help.

Refugees

Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia

GlobalPost

September 05, 2019

Mohamudul Hasson and Tobarik Huson, both Rohingya from Myanmar, met in Malaysia after taking arduous journeys to escape persecution and stagnation as stateless Muslim minorities. Neither Myanmar nor neighboring Bangladesh recognizes them as citizens.

Community

For these Latvian Americans, summer is for learning about their roots

The World

September 02, 2019

A new academic year is kicking off around the world, but for some American teens, the end of summer brings a close to a different school experience — learning their immigration history and family language in heritage summer schools.

Migration

Sicilian school helps migrant teenagers overcome their fear of the sea

The World

August 27, 2019

The risk of migrants dying in the Mediterranean Sea is higher than it’s ever been — 15% of migrants who boarded boats in North Africa bound for Italy in the first six months of this year drowned.

Global Nation Education

Iranian students in US scramble as sanctions ratchet up tuition costs

The World

August 26, 2019

Iranian students studying in the US are feeling the effects of escalating tensions between the two countries — from difficulties paying tuition or rent to the inability to focus on their studies

Singapore will no longer rank children based on exams

The World

August 22, 2019

The Singaporean government said incoming fifth and sixth graders won't be ranked based on test scores anymore after reports of suicide and overwhelming stress

'Willful amnesia': How Africans forgot — and remembered — their role in the slave trade

The World

August 20, 2019

Ghana’s “Year of Return” is changing how the history of the slave trade is remembered in Africa.

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