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Africa

Focus on Africa: Kenya’s Education Proposition

After intense bargaining, Kenya’s treasury has finally submitted to salary increase demands, successfully bringing to an end the month long industrial action by teachers from the nation’s public schools. As the teachers lau...
by George Gachara
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 8 – East Sarajevo

As a charity of only five years, we know the value of solid, long-lasting partnerships between like-minded organisations. One of these was forged the day before in Ilidza, south-west of Sarajevo, when we agreed to work with KUL...
by James Appleby
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Africa

Youth and Environmental Volunteerism

It is clear that the world now faces multiple environmental challenges that if not addressed wholly and timely, will explode to a state of irreversibility. Some people may even argue that it has already reached a point of no re...
by Daniel Wasonga
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Europe
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Reality Show Politics

It is increasingly clear that British politics is becoming more about leadership personalities and less about party policies, this can only be a move in the wrong direction. The phenomenon has been best represented in rece...
by Oscar Isham
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Middle East
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The Procedures of Killing People Legally

Where was the world when the first 100,000 Syrians were killed? Where was the efforts for intervention when the first 2 million civilians, men, women, children and elderly fled from a conflict that didn’t care for collateral ...
by Ozlem Unat
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Politics

Politics And The Youth: Does Our Vote Really Count?

With the UK General Elections coming up soon, there’s a lot of talk about who to vote for. Will the Tories be given a second chance or will Labour steal the show? Or will the Lib Dems manage to win trust back off the public? ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Green

COP18: The curious case of intergenerational justice

Imagine if world leaders were to age in reverse. Imagine if they were born with the physical maladies of an 85-year-old. Imagine it they were just like Benjamin Buttons, Brad Pitt’s title role in The Curious Case of Benjami...
by Beatrice Yeung
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Asia
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UNICEF India Sounds the ‘Red Siren’ to #ENDviolence Against Children

A new social media campaign from UNICEF India is seeking to raise awareness and mobilize a collective effort to #ENDviolence against children, with special focus on sexual violence against girls. On 19 August 2013, UNICEF Ind...
by Aparna Ray
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Eurasia

Building peace in Georgia, step-by-step: The importance of youth participation

Successful peacebuilding depends on involving young people. Governments, international organisations and NGOs often focus on how young people are endangered by armed conflict and are at risk of taking up arms in future violence...
by Nicholas Barker
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