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Happy Birthday To Us!

Time does go quickly! I can’t quite believe that it has been one year since I first started the IPF. For those of you who have joined us recently, the original IPF would be almost unrecognisable to you! If I’m being...
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Korean Students Speak [Pictures]

South Korea has the world’s longest working hours, worst stress indexes, and highest suicide rates, and students can be in class for up to 15 hours a day. Inside the classroom there is little opportunity for freedom o...
by Natasha Lipman
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Call for Contributors

We’re always on the lookout for new writers to join our growing team of international contributors! We pride ourselves on providing a safe platform for young people to write about the issues that are most important to the...
by Natasha Lipman
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WATCH: Access to Clean Water for All?

It’s quite simple: without water, we would not exist. It is essential to all human and economic development. We can’t live without water. Today, 780 million people (that’s about one in nine) lack access to cl...
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Human Rights

A Brutal Account of the Syrian Civil War (Warning: Graphic Content)

On Oct. 28, 2012, journalist Olly Lambert was filming an interview with a Syrian rebel leader in the village of al-Bara for FRONTLINE, a government airstrike hit barely 300 meters from where he was filming. Keeping the cameras ...
by Natasha Lipman
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WATCH: “What I Saw in the War”

 “What I see is incredibly heroic people fighting for things — like democracy — that we take for granted every single day … All I am is a witness. My role is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless … To shin...
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WATCH: My escape from North Korea

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn’t until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14 to begin a life in hid...
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Educating Women

WATCH: The Girl Who Demanded School

When she was 12, Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: she would undergo the Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high school. If she had run away Ntaiya’s father would have been s...
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Economically Empowered Girls Can Stop Poverty Before It Starts [Infographic]

Earning a safe income and having savings are just the beginning of the story. The economic empowerment of adolescent girls has a positive knock-on effect to other development areas including education, health, unemployment and ...
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