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On Kenya’s Coast, a Struggle for the Sacred

By Miriam Gathigah
Travel into the heart of Kenya’s southern Coast Province, nearly 500 km from the capital city of Nairobi, and you will come across one of the planet’s most curious World Heritage Sites: the remains of several fortified villages, revered by the indigenous Mijikenda people as the sacred abodes of their ancestors.

Instead of Scaling up Funding for Education, Major Donors Are Cutting Back

By Valentina Ieri
Despite commitments by the international community to achieve universal primary education by 2015, funds for education have been decreasing over the past ten years, according to a report released Friday by the global advocacy campaign ‘A World at School’.

In Bangladesh, Gender Equality Comes on the Airwaves

By Naimul Haq
Judging by how often they make headlines, one might be tempted to believe that women in Bangladesh don’t play a major role in this country’s affairs.

U.N. Water Report Not “Doom And Gloom”, Says Author

By Josh Butler
The lead author of a United Nations water report has spoken out about media depictions of his findings, denying the report lays out a “doom and gloom” scenario.

Indian Girls Break Taboos on Menstrual Hygiene

By Stella Paul
Fifteen-year-old Nasreen Jehan, a student in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, proudly flaunts a yellow and red beaded bracelet encircling her wrist. This humble accessory, she tells IPS, is her most treasured possession.

Scarcity Reveals an Inaccessible Excess

By Miriam Gathigah
For decades Zakayo Ekeno has walked Turkana County’s arid land, herding his livestock, and his father’s before that. Yet nothing about the persistently drought-stricken land in northern Kenya could have given him an indication of the wealth beneath it.

‘Missing Melody in the Tune of Sustainable Development’

By Amy Fallon
It is 10.26 am in Kampala and a Ugandan woman is airing her gripe about the opposite sex on the airwaves.

Sacrificing the Reef for Industrial Development

By Neena Bhandari
Mining and port development coupled with decreasing water quality along Australia’s north-eastern coast are threatening the continent’s World Heritage-listed tourist drawcard, the Great Barrier Reef.

Israeli Students Vow to Eradicate Malnutrition

By Pierre Klochendler
At the Gymnasia Herzliya School in Tel Aviv, 20 ninth and tenth graders are testing the simplest, cheapest and fastest way to solve the problem of malnutrition among their peers around the world.


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