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With attacks against hospitals still intensifying, Syria’s health system is barely functioning. Shelly Kittleson joins the families forced in desperation to seek medical treatment outside the country.
Christine Mahoney Director, Social Entrepreneurship Department of the University of Virginia
In the final installment of her series on barriers to advocacy, University of Virginia professor Christine Mahoney proposes advocacy campaigns that secure funds to create “social entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency.”
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.
Christine Mahoney Director, Social Entrepreneurship Department of the University of Virginia
In this second installment of her series on refugee advocacy, University of Virginia professor Christine Mahoney argues that the Western media’s famously short-term interest in displacement crises is driven primarily by geopolitics.
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