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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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South African students take the lead in protests over college costs and equity

The Hechinger Report

As in the United States, where activists have called on colleges and universities to strip the names and likenesses of slaveholders and segregationists from campuses, South African students started in 2015 to demand the removal of relics of earlier times. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. million to nearly 18 million.