Drafting new constitution, Libyan civil society speaks

January 26, 2015

Democracies are founded on the will of the people. But in al-Bayda, Libya—where members of the Constitutional Drafting Assembly have been working since April 2014 to create the framework for a democratic Libya—the voice of the people had been largely absent....
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Holding out Hope for Children and Youth

By Magdalena Fulton

January 20, 2015   |   0 comments

As I safely tuck my 6-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter into bed, I am still thinking about the 2015 UNICEF report on the State of the World’s Children that I read this morning....
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Experts: Mideast youth radicalism is “public health crisis”

January 16, 2015

In refugee camps across Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and other countries, more than 3 million Syrians live in limbo. Especially for those in their teens and twenties, their life plans—education, careers, marriages and families—are suspended while a violent civil war at home rages into its fourth year....
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