As the training of the Afghan National Police Force continues, statistics show that women currently make up only 9% of Afghan police recruits, even though women represent half the population of Afghanistan. Many male officers...
North America US put pressure on Iranian oil exports and nuclear programme The US has put further pressure on Iran to end its nuclear ambitions, by granting China a six-month reprieve from financial sanctions for buying Iranian...
We all hear about the rate of youth unemployment around the world, but when it’s all laid out in front of you, the numbers seem even more staggering. 75 million young people, that’s 12.6%, around the world are unemp...
Monk Ashin Sopaka came from a poor family. This meant that as a child he spent a lot of time walking from one place to another. What started out as a side effect of poverty slowly translated into a movement for peace and freedo...
When the Arab Spring revolutions first broke out, artist Keffah Ali Deeb was one of the first people in Syria to protest outside the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan embassies. She joined other activists in standing up against S...
Dictatorships throughout the Arab world were quashed under the force of the revolutionaries that fought against them. The unrest gained momentum as more countries followed in Tunisia’s wake; people projected their voices...