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It seems that it just takes a couple of brave students plus one collective vision in order to awaken a society’s hunger for democracy. In the final months leading up to the Mexican presidential elections, 131 students from a private university– Universidad Iberoamericana– decided to defy the media’s allegedly favorite […]

A quick glance over a few recent government-issued stats, and one could perhaps be excused at this point for opining that this article is out of touch; that it isn’t worth the metaphorical paper it’s printed on. There are 178 women in South Africa’s 400-strong National Assembly.  Women also comprise […]

Amy Cox lives in the coastal town of Newcastle, about 2 hours north of Sydney. She witnessed firsthand the steady economic decline of the city. Walking down the central streets of Newcastle, once a bustling commercial and social district, she would feel quite disheartened to see vacant shops, vandalised buildings […]

The rapid economic growth India is experiencing seems to have  hit Indian hearts with a vengance. It’s a hard and sorry fact that many young Indians are now dying of heart attacks  even though this may not make headline news the way India’s rural poor and emaciated children do. The Indian male in his thirties […]

For years Uganda has enjoyed the advantage of providing better quality education in East Africa. Thousands of students from neighbouring countries have often sought higher education from Uganda compared to Ugandans studying in those countries. However, there is a growing fear that this advantage may soon wane. The fear stems […]