Development & Education

July 24, 2018

Former President Robert Mugabe promised radical change and improvement for education in Zimbabwe, but his 37-year rule bequeathed a system that still leaves most students unable to pass state exams. Candidates in the July 30 presidential election are offering a broad spectrum of policies to raise the quality of education in Zimbabwe.

Technology

A tech startup called OMG wants to revolutionize cash for hundreds of millions of 'unbanked' people in Asia

GlobalPost

July 19, 2018

Bangkok-based OmiseGO envisions a world where cash is digital and free-flowing, stored on blockchains, accessible by smartphones and effortlessly zapped across borders. It's a human right, they say. And they're starting with Asia's farmers, merchants, migrants and factory hands, who are now quite likely to own smartphones but may not have bank accounts.

Health

Reactions after US tries to weaken UN breastfeeding measure: Breastfeeding is already 'pretty damned hard'

PRI's The World

July 10, 2018

A resolution endorsing breastfeeding became the latest political lightning rod when the Trump administration threatened some countries with a withdrawal of aid if they didn't support a more watered-down version that caves to the infant formula industry.

Conflict & Justice

Berlin's first Arabic-language public library aims to redefine refugee integration

GlobalPost

July 06, 2018

As anti-refugee blowback forces Chancellor Angela Merkel to close the country's doors, an Arabic-language library and cultural center in Berlin seeks mutual understanding.

Changes to French public university admissions leaves more than 150,000 without a spot this fall

PRI's The World

July 03, 2018

In France, the dropout rate at public universities is high — only 40 percent make it past the first year. That's one reason the French government is overhauling its rules on higher education, but some say the changes "break the way universities work."

Health & Medicine

Scientist Pajau Vangay used to make 'pretty code.' Now, she studies guts.

GlobalPost

June 21, 2018

For Vangay, the Immigrant Microbiome Project isn’t just about advancing scientific discovery in an ivory tower lab. It’s about social justice and making science more inclusive.

Immigration

Family separation under ‘zero-tolerance’ policy could leave lasting trauma in children, pediatric doctor says

The Takeaway

June 19, 2018

It has become a hot-button topic in American politics. But beyond the numbers of children being separated from their parents at the border are very real, long-term effects from toxic stress, one expert says.

Conflict

In northern Uganda, these women move past insurgency by baking cakes

GlobalPost

June 15, 2018

Today, the group has 61 members — women who are HIV-positive, widows, single mothers, women who face domestic abuse, former abductees who lost their limbs or still live with bullet wounds and women whose children were abducted during the conflict, with some of them never returning.

Technology

Sweden's #Teknisktfel movement exposes sexual harassment in the tech industry

GlobalPost

June 11, 2018

Inspired by the #MeToo movements that spread around the world last fall, #Teknisktfel is a petition, hashtag and website run by seven women in Sweden’s tech industry dedicated to chronicling the harassment and discrimination that women in the field face every day.

Conflict & Justice

Nearly half of Afghan children are out of school. Most are girls.

Reuters

June 03, 2018

Nearly half all children in Afghanistan are out of school due to conflict, poverty, child marriage and discrimination against girls, the number rising for the first time since 2002, humanitarian organizations said in a report on Sunday.