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A Mother breaks barriers to send her Son to School
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
Kumari Magar accompanied by her husband, Milan Kumar Magar never gave up going to different hospitals outside their village in the hopes to cure their son, Kiran Thapa Magar of blindness. Kiran was born with blindness in a remote village in the Okhaldhunga District of Nepal’s Province 1 in 2010. […]
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The Art of Speaking Truth To Power: Reflections on the C20 Summit
Written by Amanda Cahill
Just over a week ago I joined around 400 civil society representatives at the C20 Summit in Melbourne to draft a communique to present to G20 leaders for consideration in their deliberations during July and November. From the outset, tension hung in the air around the question as to whether participating […]
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Social inclusion through social enterprise: addressing indigenous disadvantage in Cairns
Written by Dominika Ricardi
Cairns is a paradise: lush, green and tropical; yet up to 1500 sleep rough or homeless each night, many of them indigenous. Homelessness is but one of the challenges indigenous people in Australia face; another is unemployment due to systemic challenges such as discrimination and poorer health and literacy outcomes. […]
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Roma in Bulgaria: a neglected abandoned minority
Written by Nikoleta Popkostadinova
At the moment Bulgaria is governed by a caretaker government appointed by the president because the ruling party GERB resigned at the end of February after a series of country-wide protests. They started innocently enough against the unexpectedly high electricity bills people were unable to pay. All that citizens wanted […]
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Egypt’s Patriotic Women: The Example of Shahenda Maklad
Written by Fady Salah
Future Challenges interviews elderly feminist and labor activist Shahenda Maklad
