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Food has become more of an interest after I moved to the United States. I’ve struggled with my weight all of my life so food was certainly in my mind, but nowadays I’m thinking of food beyond the calories, or rather, about food in other ways. Whether it is about the giant portion sizes at restaurants, the great variety of food available or the great waste of food that is seen as normal here I’m still grasping to understand the food culture in my new country.

The Australian education discourse is a largely urban one. Families in the capital cities have an abundance of schooling options to choose from, with the major consideration being the merits of public vs. private education. The biggest gap in Australia’s education system, where the ‘right to a good education’ is hardest […]

Land means different things to different people and different countries handle the problem in very diverse ways. While it is a fact that land rights are extremely important in South America, in Bolivia they are an issue that has taken our government over 60 years to address. However, in Bolivia […]

On the November 24th 2011, Amnesty International launched its report on “Eviction and resistance in Cambodia: Five women tell their stories,” in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where an estimated 10% of the city’s population has been evicted since the 1990s. The report features the first-hand testimony of Hong, Mai, […]

The questions in Ulrike Reinhard’s article about democracy´s challenge in taking action to lessen the impact of climate change are targeted at those countries that actually have policies on CO2 emissions. Bolivia, as a very much smaller producer of CO2 is not addressing this particular problem and, as it is […]