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AFGHANISTAN Mujda means good news for schoolgirls
In a one-room mud schoolhouse in rural Afghanistan, a group of young girls are learning a new word in their native Dari: Mujda. It means good news – not a word one might think would be very useful in a place like this, where decades of fighting and natural disasters ...
Read moreSRI LANKA From untouchables to leaders
More than 150 years ago, M. Sasikala’s ancestors were shipped from India to work on the tea plantations high in the hills of central Sri Lanka. They had no rights, no land of their own, and were essentially treated as slaves – no access to the services provided to Sri ...
Read moreAFGHANISTAN Food Crisis
When I’m hungry, it feels hard in my stomach. I want to cry, and I wonder why my mother doesn’t give me more food.
Read moreETHIOPIA Fighting for the rights of girls
On the dry and dusty floor of the Ethiopian Rift Valley, the reality of discrimation is starkly apparent. For girls here, it begins at birth. When a boy is born, there is clapping, shouting and singing, and celebratory shots are fired in the air.
Read moreINDIA Sukmati realises her potential
Coming from an extremely poor family, the road to holding office in the local village council (Panchayat) was a long and arduous one for Sukmati.
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