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Yemen: Anger at Expansion of US Drone War
Image shows US Air Force General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Image by Flickr user james_gordon_los_angeles (CC BY-NC 2.0).
In the International Museum of Women, the current online exhibit is all about mothers. MAMA: Motherhood around the Globe explores the different aspects of motherhood through video interviews to women in Nigeria, Kenya, Afghanistan, USA, Colombia, Hungary, China and Norway.
Nigerian Finance Minister and former World Bank Managing Director, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, the only African and woman running for the World Bank presidency, has lost the race to Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American physician.
Should this have been the time for global governance values to triumph over the long-standing tradition of an American leading the institution?
What has killed 3,000 of Peru’s dolphins so far this year?
Of Haitian parentage, Melissa Beauvery was born in the United States. Growing up in Brooklyn, she was surrounded by the lilt of Creole; the language was very much a part of her everyday experience. Her new spoken-word CD, “My Grandmother’s Tongue”, which the video highlights, depicts her experience as a Haitian-American woman.
Research by Dr. Taylor Owen revealed that the total amount of bombs dropped by the United States in Cambodia between 1965-1973 was five times greater than previously known.
This boy is trying out a pedal powered maize mill.
Maya Pedal is an organization in Guatemala that specializes in bringing progress through secondhand bicycles. Those that they can repair, get a new life as inexpensive means of transportation in the streets of Guatemala and those that aren’t usable as bicycles anymore get turned into pedal powered machines to help in daily work such as pumping water, grinding corn, blending, shelling nuts and making roof tiles.
A video titled “Candombe and Llamadas - Carnaval Uruguay,” with video footage of the parades and photos by Flickr user Adriana Cabrera Esteve.
Footage from a documentary on the problems within the penitentiary system in Brazil, including overcrowding.
The video is in Portuguese with English subtitles.
The decision to eliminate the Mexican-American studies program from public schools curriculum, which had been implemented in Tucson, Arizona, in 1998, has caused outrage.
“You can’t censor books”, street art from Tucson, AZ. Photo by Flickr user crjp. Published under CC BY-NC-2.0 Licence.
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