Development & Education

January 17, 2019

Syrian refugees will never go back home if their towns can’t offer the basic services they enjoyed before the war. A lack of basic civil services leaves a perfect vacuum for extremist groups like ISIS to exploit by taking control of essentially ungoverned territory.

Development

This old Malaysian house renovation builds on the spirit of its original women owners

GlobalPost

January 15, 2019

The women-led organization is revamping the place and plans to use it as a home base as well as an ecotourism draw.

Global Politics

In post-conflict Colombia, imprisoned ex-combatants help maintain a fragile peace

GlobalPost

January 15, 2019

Adriana Cómbita, 27, sees herself as part of a new generation of peacemakers who are enlisting ex-combatants, both FARC and ex-paramilitary, to their movement. Her workshops in prisons coincide with Colombia’s new judicial process that encourages those charged with war crimes to confess everything in exchange for lighter sentences.

Sexuality

Muslim women chart their own path in #MeToo era

GlobalPost

January 04, 2019

HEART Women & Girls, whose sex educators are all Muslim, raises awareness about sexual health and violence within the community.

Le Pen’s niece opens grad school to train new generation of French far-right leaders

PRI's The World

January 04, 2019

Marion Maréchal — previously known as Marion Maréchal Le Pen — quit politics last year and dropped her famous last name, but she hasn’t dropped her focus on giving the far-right a boost. Maréchal's latest endeavor has been to start a school aimed at training the ultra-conservative elite in France.

Global Politics

Will China’s moon landing launch a new space race?

The Conversation

January 04, 2019

China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on Jan. 2. What does this mean for the future of space exploration and relations between the US and China?

How higher ed will be a battleground for immigration debates in 2019

PRI's The World

January 03, 2019

Higher education institutions in the US are stepping into some of the nation's most pressing immigration policy debates.

Will Brazil's women writers lose progress under far-right President Bolsonaro?

GlobalPost

January 03, 2019

Many literary groups across the country focus on contemporary women authors. Newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro has spoken disparagingly about women, though, and some in the literary community worry about what that means for female writers.

Global Politics

Latin America grapples with migrant exodus that looks set to worsen in 2019

Thomson Reuters Foundation

December 27, 2018

The crisis in Venezuela is threatening to overwhelm Colombia and other countries in South America and is likely to test their good will in 2019 as migration and asylum claims from other Latin America nations pick up.

Conflict & Justice

Has Kazakhstan forgotten about its Polygon test survivors?

PRI's The World

December 19, 2018

In the nuclear arms race against the US, the former Soviet Union performed more than 450 nuclear tests in an area known as the Semipalatinsk Test Site — also known as the Polygon — from 1949 to 1989. Winds blew the nuclear fallout and radioactive dust into neighboring villages, affecting anywhere between 500,000 to 1 million people.

Development & Education

Garbage collection in Syria is crucial to fighting ISIS

This old Malaysian house renovation builds on the spirit of its original women owners

In post-conflict Colombia, imprisoned ex-combatants help maintain a fragile peace

Muslim women chart their own path in #MeToo era

Le Pen’s niece opens grad school to train new generation of French far-right leaders

Will China’s moon landing launch a new space race?

How higher ed will be a battleground for immigration debates in 2019

Will Brazil's women writers lose progress under far-right President Bolsonaro?

Latin America grapples with migrant exodus that looks set to worsen in 2019

Has Kazakhstan forgotten about its Polygon test survivors?

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