Posted on February 25th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
From Pacific island nations to the U.S. - The number of people migrating because of concerns about global warming is growing and threatening to impact politics and cultures worldwide. Some of the “ecomigrants” are moving to higher ground before their nations are deluged, others seek to avoid hurricanes and other violent weather conditions.
In [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Ethiopia has legislated a new NGO law that prohibits operations aimed for the support of human rights, crisis management, and the rights of children and handicapped people. The new NGO law applies to all international NGO’s working in Ethiopia. Furthermore local NGO’s who receive more than 10% of their funding from a foreign source are [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Iranian women are increasingly challenging social and legal mores that make them subservient to their husbands. While women have had some individual successes, the system remains heavily tilted toward males.
Confronted with new cultural and legal restrictions after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, some young women turned to higher education as a way to get away [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Women are becoming high-level managers in Europe, entrepreneurs in Asia and mechanics in Africa. The more globalization changes the world, the more it liberates women from traditional roles.
Across the world, women are stepping into new roles as politicians, business leaders and advocates as a result of globalization. Progress is uneven and fraught with potential pitfalls, [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Teenage girls in blue and green burqas pour into the schoolyard, where they pull off their coverings, stuff them in their book bags and head to class. It almost seems as if the acid attacks never happened.
But though classes have resumed, the students, their parents and the school’s principal remain on edge two months later. [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by ChangeMaker
The World Health Organization has declared the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe a “worst-case scenario,” with 60,000 infected and at least 3,000 dead.
Most population centers suffer from poor water supply, and a collapse of the nation’s sanitation system has led to uncollected waste throughout the country — factors that contribute to the emergence and spread [...]
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