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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. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. and in its schools.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. History when they reach high school. For the study of U.S.

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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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Black athletes can teach us about more than just sports

The Hechinger Report

Throughout history, athletes who exhibit heroism on the field have joined forces to combat hatred off of it. Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the black power salute during the 200-meter medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, in protest of global segregation and human rights violations.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023.

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

The Hechinger Report

It’s an accident of history that allowed all of these same issues in the United States to emerge in South Africa at such a pitch.”. Black Lives Matter movement, and which ended successfully in April 2015 with the statue being carted away to a warehouse — “Rhodes Must Fall.”. The South African protests began as something else entirely.