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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe volunteers risking their lives to secretly educate Afghanistan’s girls
Nine months on from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, teenage girls remain deprived of their right to education
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Published in: Home: NewsHackney schoolgirl strip-searched by police breaks silence
‘Child Q’ was wrongly accused of having drugs and subjected to a humiliating search while on her period. Her family...
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: More London children speak out about horrific police strip searches
Young people and youth workers will picket a Hackney police station over the ‘state-sanctioned sexual assault’ of...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureLGBTIQ students kicked out of school in East Africa are fighting back
Homophobia, religion and the legacy of colonialism are hurting gay and lesbian school students in Kenya and Uganda –...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCulture wars: It’s the Right that is trying to cancel free speech
While the powerful try to silence those who speak back to them, working-class cultures all over the world are...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy I created the hashtag #ExposeChristianSchools
Private Christian schools in the US take public money to push a ‘religion-centred, anti-science, anti-multicultural...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe Afghan woman activist still determined to educate girls
With the future of women’s rights and girls’ education in doubt under Afghanistan’s new Taliban regime, Zarlasht...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureThe ‘helpers’: the Yemeni students doing homework for the Saudis
Amid war and a COVID-19 lockdown, some students in Yemen have found a new market, selling academic services to their...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor young Syrian refugees, education and employment cannot remain apolitical
Why is it that despite the huge efforts invested by donors and UN agencies, do young refugees continue to struggle...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesThe future of international students in Australia hangs in the balance
Health, economic, and political conditions will determine the fate of international students in Australia.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionFrance: the flea becoming the boss
The sole beneficiary is the far Right leader who helped turn laïcité from a fine democratic value into a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Academic freedom in the context of France’s new approach to 'separatism'
From now on, academic freedom will be exercised within the limits of the values of the Republic. Or not.
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Published in: openIndia: OpinionIndia has deprived thousands of Kashmiri students like me of an education
Students have been shut out of schools for over a year in Kashmir in violation of their human rights.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Post-pandemic university, or post-university?
We need to defend the cooperation that comes only with face-to-face dialogue, or risk the further undermining of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their education
Racism, xenophobia, and corruption rendered hundreds of thousands of Syrian children “a lost generation”.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhy is the Brazilian right afraid of Paulo Freire?
The Bolsonaro administration has used a misleading caricature of the educator to justify its assault on public education.
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Published in: HomePolice states, pandemic, and the end of the university
“One of my roles is to be in the classroom with my students come September, because coming together to think in real...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesInternational students are vital to Canada’s economic recovery after COVID-19
Support for international student mobility is crucial for our knowledge networks and economic growth.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesStuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
For long, international students were not included in most migration debates because they were seen as temporary...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe first step to combat inequality is to understand it
Promoting the study of economics enables citizens to understand why inequities are generated and how equity and...