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The Global Health Debate
With controversy still raging over national health reform in the United States, the media is paying little attention to an international debate on global health policy that is of major importance to t… more →
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The Global Health Debate
storypress wrote 1 month ago: With controversy still raging over national health reform in the United States, the media is paying … more →
Jailed for crying out his hunger
storypress wrote 2 months ago: An unemployed drunkard shot to fame last month in Cuba when a video of him storming a TV report to d … more →
The price to pay
storypress wrote 2 months ago: Unlike the US, Brazil doesn’t have two separate social classes, divided between whites and bla … more →
Israeli Food: It's Not Weird as Hell (Contest!)
storypress wrote 2 months ago: I love Israeli food. LOVE IT. It’s healthy, it’s delicious, and have I mentioned the veg … more →
Meeting “Abu Treika” in an Aswan Youth Centre
storypress wrote 2 months ago: As the taxi was speeding down the incredibly bumpy alley, I looked around me trying to picture the y … more →
For Life Alone
storypress wrote 2 months ago: There are snippets of conversations that cling to your memory insusceptible to the effacing effect o … more →
Poverty
storypress wrote 2 months ago: Different communities and groups of people have different ideas about what it means to be poor. In t … more →
Akkar
storypress wrote 2 months ago: Akkar is the poorest district of Lebanon: a recent UNDP report found that 63% of the families are de … more →
Who's Stealing Little Black Girls?
storypress wrote 2 months ago: Across America, young African-American girls are vanishing from homes, schools, and neighborhoods an … more →
There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
storypress wrote 2 months ago: The world suffers global recession, enormous inequity, hunger, deforestation, pollution, climate cha … more →
I know now why farmers kill themselves'
storypress wrote 2 months ago: It is a familar story. As drought sinks in, and the government realises the magnitude of the crisis, … more →
Cambodia Pushes AIDS 'Colony' Far From City
storypress wrote 2 months ago: Until recently, 40 Cambodian families with HIV and AIDS were living in the center of the country … more →
EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO BE BEAUTIFUL!
storypress wrote 2 months ago: The project … more →
Corruption and rice contracts recently.
storypress wrote 3 months ago: The Timorese blogging scene has gone slightly BANANAS over the matter of who got what rice contracts … more →
Fighting contemporary slavery
storypress wrote 3 months ago: Combate à escravidão Sugarcane cutter Brazil. Photo by Ricardo Funari, used with permission. A ONG R … more →
Cold Temperatures Continue in Puno
storypress wrote 3 months ago: The dire situation in Southern Peru continues due to the extreme temperatures in the region of Puno. … more →
Iraq: face of corruption, mask of politics
storypress wrote 3 months ago: The challenges to Iraq’s authorities following the withdrawal of United States military forces … more →
A Man for this Season?
storypress wrote 3 months ago: One of the most significant consequences of the collapse of neoliberal economics, with its worship o … more →
Creating Common Grounds
storypress wrote 3 months ago: This is a planet under severe construction, surely with no end of history. State socialism has faile … more →
