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10 Surprising Celebs With Honorary Degrees
World  (tags: Celebrities, Degrees, Education, College, Resources )

Katie
- 17 days ago - onlineschool.net
Though celebs are often most admired for their financial success from their singing, acting, entertaining and sports careers, many of them are actually pretty talented, and hard-working. Here are 10 surprising celebrities with honorary degrees.
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10 Historical Speeches That Every Student Should Listen To
World  (tags: History, Speeches, Lectures, Education, Internet )

Katie
- 25 days ago - accreditedonlinecolleges.org
You can listen to great speeches from world leaders and those who have changed our ideas and our laws about war, civil rights, space exploration, peace, progress and beyond. Here are 10 historical speeches that every student should listen to.
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Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid's Legacy
World  (tags: South Africa, government, education system, teachers, Post-apartheid, students, human rights, education, jobs, dreams )

Dee
- 48 days ago - nytimes.com
KHAYELITSHA, South Africa-Seniors here at Kwamfundo high school sang freedom songs and protested outside the staff room last year because their accounting teacher chronically failed to show up for class.
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Sign Petition: Empower Women and Girls in Afghanistan
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, women, children, human, rights, freedom, education, literacy, vocational, training, empowerment, protection, sexual, abuse, trafficking, abduction, exploitation, healthcare )

Tom
- 81 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Afghan Women Empowerment Act will protect women and girls against sexual and physical abuse, abduction, trafficking and exploitation, and give them a chance for a better life through literacy education, vocational training and health care services.
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Sign Petition: Tell Congress to Help Afghan Girls
World  (tags: world, afghanistan, usa, war, troops, obama, politics, military, government, americans, girls, rights, freedoms, culture, family, education, health, food, protection, medicine, safety )

Tom
- 128 days ago - thehungersite.com
Schools torched. Classrooms hit with poison gas. Acid thrown in their faces. Girls risk life and limb to learn even as attacks by insurgents mount. You can help: The Afghan Women Empowerment Act would fund educational opportunities and keep them safe.
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~Take Action~ 25,000 Children Are Forced Into Marriage Everyday
World  (tags: children, abuse, corruption, crime, culture, education, government, humans, rights, sadness, safety, society, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', world )

Barb
- 158 days ago - care2.com
Building on the conference's success, our goal now is to make sure every member of Congress becomes a supporter of the child marriage law. Please, send a quick note to your elected officials encouraging them to stand up for girls' rights. That action...
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ICAHK Action Alert: CANADA: Stop the Deportation of Roohi Tabassum
World  (tags: 'honour' killings, horror, death, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', Pakistan, society, humans, violence, adultery, crime, culture, discrimination, education, family, gender discrimination, killing, murder )

Madalena
- 200 days ago - stophonourkillings.com
Roohi Tabassum faces deportation to Pakistan in just seven days, where she is at risk of so-called 'honour' killings, as was reporetd recently in the Toronto Sun. Roohi's supporters are asking you to contact the following people and organisations and tel
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Playing For Change...Join the Movement!
World  (tags: culture, society, rights, ethics, freedoms, interesting, humans, news, internet, philanthropy, world, activists, arts, education, GoodNews, HumanRights, humans )

Kat
- 221 days ago - playingforchange.com
Playing For Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music...
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Poland Embraces New Effort to Fight Anti-Semitism
World  (tags: World, Poland, anti-Semitism, discrimination, education, human rights, school, books, Catholic, history, Middle Ages, World War II, Nazis, SS, Holocaust, Jewish, Polish )

Tom
- 242 days ago - google.com
Poland is the fifth in a group of 12 countries adopting such workbooks, after Germany, Ukraine, Denmark and the Netherlands. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe guided the project as part of an overall effort to fight anti-Semitisim.
2 comments
Al Jazeera - Focus - Ending Violence Against Women
World  (tags: World, International Women's Day, CEDAW, discrimination, women, rights, freedom, poverty, violence, honor killings, stoning, lashing, slavery, crime, safety, oppression, voting, work, education, health, families, children )

Tom
- 243 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
In many countries women are active participants in the political process and have made progress toward economic equality. However, women's rights to life, to physical integrity, to health, education and freedom from violence, remains largely unfulfilled.
1 comment
International Women's Day: Crisis of Poverty and Violence
World  (tags: International Women's Day, women, rights, freedom, poverty, violence, crime, safety, oppression, voting, work, education, health, families, children, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India )

Tom
- 244 days ago - straitstimes.com
While women from Australia to Liberia gathered to hail achievements and to campaign on issues such as work equality, voting rights and abortion access, there was little to celebrate for the female population in many parts of the world.
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Desperate Plight of Nepal 'Slave Girls'
World  (tags: world, children, slavery, girls, orphans, poverty, rape, cruelty, money, education, human rights, freedom, nepal )

Tom
- 248 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In the undergrowth, 13-year-old Junu Shrestha hacks away to gather fodder for her landlady's cattle. When she has collected a pile bigger than herself, she hoists it on her back and fixes it with a headband. She trudges back to the house, 20 minutes away.
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Female Genital Mutilation Among Israel's Negev Bedouins Has Virtually Disappeared, Study Suggests
World  (tags: Bedouin tribes, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', Female genital mutilation, education, freedoms, health and safety, Israel )

Kit
- 254 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A follow-up study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva has determined that the once prevalent custom of female genital mutilation (FGM) among Israel's Bedouin population in the Negev has virtually disappeared.
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What President Barack Obama Means to the World
World  (tags: Barack Obama, human rights, equality, civil rights, leadership, education, social justice, government, leadership )

Blue
- 291 days ago - thenation.com
On November 4, 2008 ...America had a black leader, and suddenly everybody else wanted one. Or at least they wondered how they could get hold of one.
2 comments
Bharathi Youth Organization Is Improving Lives of the Children of Alamarathupatti Everyday
World  (tags: India, Children, Education, literacy )

Michele
- 490 days ago - bharathiyouthorg.googlepages.com
Bharathi Youth Organization is improving lives of the children of Alamarathupatti everyday.With your support much more can and will be accomplished. Please consider joining our sponsorship program.
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