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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish. An estimated “1.8

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

As a staff member at the ASDC explained in 2015 in reference to the Israeli military operation, “Not all families were able to use sign language to explain the reason behind the brutality.” These communication limitations are compounded by the complexities of the war on Gaza and Israeli occupation.

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Black athletes can teach us about more than just sports

The Hechinger Report

Social bullying, which includes deliberately harming someone’s reputation or relationships, according to a government website , followed at 54 percent. government accountable for transnational militarism and domestic racism by refusing to be drafted for the Vietnam War in 1967. We need a team. Muhammad Ali held the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

Both have seen their governments investing less in higher education and students and families struggling to pay more, with many of the poorest ending up at campuses with low success rates while those who are wealthier and white have access to the best universities. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee.

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Maxine Waters chastises for-profit colleges and DeVos Leadership

The Hechinger Report

former Secretary of Education; Wade Henderson, former president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; and Fail State’s director, Alex Shebanow. Leave this field empty if you're human: Waters is featured in the documentary as someone who has long fought for tighter regulations of these institutions.

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Put more gender studies in schools’ sex ed courses

The Hechinger Report

Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. The 2015 call from a number of national groups proposes just that. People are dying at the intersections of ignorance, gender, race and sex.