A campaign aims to address the state of education in South Africa, where only seven percent of public schools have functional libraries.
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Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth
Topics: Hamza Aktan, schools, Soccer World Cup, South Africa
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Singer Annie Lennox joins HIV/AIDS leaders and activists in Vienna this month to call on governments to protect the human rights of vulnerable groups worldwide.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: Annie Lennox, Austria, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Paul Silva
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While many countries use UN World Drug Day as an occasion to persecute--and even execute--drug users, some organizations took the opportunity to emphasize the need for honest debate about drugs and for policies which seek to treat, not punish.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Equality
Topics: Alexandra Kirby, Brazil, China, death penalty, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, Iran, Vietnam
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An eye-opening documentary follows two attorneys as they attempt to prove the innocence of a young man wrongfully accused of murder, taking viewers behind the scenes into Mexico’s prisons and courtrooms.
Posted in: Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: criminal justice reform, Denise Tomasini-Joshi, Mexico, pretrial detention
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