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On Monday, Michelle Obama visited Liberia to push for girls’ education in one of the world’s most underdeveloped countries. Some of the girls she met say the visit has convinced them to stay in school.
We gather the highlights of our World Refugee Week coverage, including commentary advocating for long-term rights of refugees and reporting on refugee theater troupes and resettled asylum seekers.
World Vision’s Lindsay Gladding discusses the everyday difficulties faced by parents as they try to raise their children in the refugee camps of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
Whether it’s with the Free Syrian Army or the pro-government National Defense Forces militia, ISIS or the Kurds, children across the war-torn country have consistently been recruited to fight in Syria’s war.
Liberia’s Ebola outbreak exposed huge gaps in wider health communication and education issues, particularly in rural communities. Health workers are now helping fill these gaps, sharing information about maternal and reproductive health.
Foreign tourists helped Iceland back on its feet after its economy bottomed out. Canada’s Arctic is just as stunning and culturally rich, but it still lacks easy transportation, hotels and other amenities for tourism to give the region an economic boost.
Previous estimates of groundwater in California’s drought-stricken Central Valley only looked at depths of up to 1,000ft (300m), but a new study says there’s three times as much freshwater at 1,000–3,000ft (300–900m) below ground.
The trafficking of young women is on the rise in India, but poor documentation, corruption and discrimination mean the crime is largely ignored.
For many of the mothers, wives, daughters and other relatives searching for those who disappear in conflict and crisis, life is on hold. The International Committee of the Red Cross helps them look for their loved ones and begin to move on, even as they wait.
A bark beetle epidemic driven by drought is killing off millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada as California starts another summer plagued by drought and higher temperatures.
HAKAI MAGAZINE: As the ice melts, polar bears are being forced to move on land. And they’re adapting any way they can – even if that means scavenging their next meal from people.
Syrian medical staff with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) discuss what it’s like working at Al Salamah hospital in the Syrian town of Azaz on the Turkish border.
Residents of Maarat al-Numan in rural Idlib have been protesting against the rule of al-Qaida’s Jabhat al-Nusra for more than 100 days – one of the longest protest campaigns since 2011.
Rights activists say the religious councils work as a parallel legal system that discriminates against women. But supporters say they simply offer guidance on Islamic law and often help women escape abusive marriages.
In 2014, California voters passed a $7.5 billion water bond – nearly 80 percent of which has now been appropriated. Here’s a look at where that money is going, and which key areas are yet to have funds awarded.
With cities across Europe continuing to attract the majority of the continent’s refugees, mayors struggling with insufficient budgets are helping each other and calling for increased E.U. funds to integrate new arrivals.
Kenya’s November deadline to shut down camps and repatriate Somali refugees leaves a community living in dangerous limbo, with some contemplating escape to Europe.
Maternal disorders are the leading cause of death for young women. Experts say teaching children about sexual health and reproductive rights can help reverse that trend and contribute to gender equity.
During times of conflict, access to reproductive healthcare can mean the difference between life and death for a woman. With medical equipment and social support, UNFPA Yemen helps women and children stay safe amid the country’s civil war.
A bill in the California Legislature aims to improve water supplies by restoring key watersheds in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges. Critics say that’s an important step, but the bill needs to go further.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, recently arrived in Switzerland as a refugee, where she is struggling with her first pregnancy and the potential breakup of her family.
A posting to Jan Mayen island in the North Atlantic is a dream come true for some. “Meet the North,” a series that ventures into the lives of some of the 4 million people who call the Arctic home, learns about love and isolation in a community of 18 souls.
In Nigeria, where most pregnancy terminations are illegal, a women’s reproductive health organization called Ipas is harnessing the power of the police to expand abortion access. Hauwa Shekarau, the group’s Nigeria country director, explains how.
After spending five years with the students of a revolutionary girls’ boarding school in Paraguay, documentary filmmaker Samantha Grant says this model for education can change lives as it protects the forest.
HIGH NORTH NEWS: Issues related to education and social well-being affect all Arctic nations and must be given more importance in discussions about the future of the Arctic region.
In Afghanistan, media coverage of women’s issues is often left to foreigners and men. But a new journalism program is giving Afghan women the skills and connections to tell their own stories to the world.
Over the past two years, bombs and shelling have made it too dangerous for students to attend official schools in Aleppo city, so a group of volunteer teachers decided to open their own.
To mark International Yoga Day today, we explore how the ancient mind-body practice is helping women and men escaping conflict to heal some of the emotional scars that they carry with them.
Bringing together underprivileged adolescents on the soccer field, Yuwa co-founder Franz Gastler gives the girls of rural Jharkhand a chance to get an education and avoid a future of early marriage and inequality.
The water sector use 19 percent of California’s electricity. If more clean energy is used, this presents a big opportunity for the state to move toward meeting its climate goals and for water utilities to realize new economic benefits.
When her family fled Syria, Muzoon Almellehan worried she would never get to finish her schooling. Now living in the U.K., and preparing for her final exams, she has become a campaigner for the right of all refugee children to go to school.
As part of our special coverage for World Refugee Day, we mark the importance of resettlement by gathering first-hand accounts of refugees from Iraq, Syria, Congo, South Sudan and Myanmar on an interactive world map.
After 16 years of drought in the Colorado River Basin, Lake Mead has hit its lowest point ever. Here’s a look at what impact this will have on the 19 million Californians who depend on the water supply.
Adolescent girls who have fled Syria find continued risks in refugee camps: early marriage, abuse and lack of education. Photographer David Brunetti turns his lens on their diverse lives – and how they are finding renewed hope in camps where UNFPA provides support.
Strict abortion laws criminalize obstetric emergencies that end in stillbirth or miscarriage. This is one reason the U.N. and NGOs say such laws discriminate against women and should be changed.
Natasha Hall of the Center for Civilians in Conflict discusses enhanced protection mechanisms and ways to put survival in Syria back in the hands of civilians themselves.
In this final part of our World Refugee Day special series on the experiences of men and women from around the world who resettle in America, we speak with Shadi Ismail who fled Syria because of his sexual orientation and feels that his life has finally begun in Idaho.
A latest UN report reveals “enslavement” of hundreds of thousands of Eritreans through forced conscription by the country’s military dictatorship - a driving reason for their flight.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier is one of the toughest, most influential Inuit activists in Canada. Her perspective on the effects of toxic chemicals and climate change on the Arctic have transformed the issues of science, politics and economics into those of human rights.
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, recently arrived in Switzerland as a refugee, where she is struggling with her first pregnancy and the potential breakup of her family.
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