CENTRAL AMERICA: Restorative Juvenile Justice and a Region’s Important Choices
November 29, 2010
CENTRAL AMERICA: Restorative Juvenile Justice and a Region’s Important Choices Orietta Zumbado and Victor Herrero discuss juvenile justice. The punitive approach to justice long applied to juvenile offenders in many Central American countries calls for zero tolerance. Simply put, this... Read MoreKYRGYZSTAN: Youth Program Makes USAID “Nation’s Key Donor Institution.”
June 2, 2010
KYRGYZSTAN: Youth Program Makes USAID “Nation’s Key Donor Institution.” Television screens across the world flashed pictures on April 7th of the young faces of Kyrgyzstan’s displaced, angry and disenfranchised who came out of novostroika squatter settlements into Bishkek’s public squares.... Read MoreKYRGYZSTAN: USAID Youth Program in Bishkek’s “Golden Circle” Yields Promising Results
June 1, 2010
KYRGYZSTAN: USAID Youth Program in Bishkek’s “Golden Circle” Yields Promising Results Life is hard in Kyrgyzstan’s novostroikas. Existing outside the legal jurisdiction of municipalities established after the fall of the Soviet Union, those living in these “new settlements” face unemployment,... Read MoreJORDAN: Teachers’ Internships Aim to Help Students Find Jobs
June 1, 2010
JORDAN: Teachers’ Internships Aim to Help Students Find Jobs Having raised literacy levels throughout the country to nearly 100 percent, Jordan is on track to meet its Millennium Development Goals, yet for the country’s leadership this is just the beginning... Read MoreGangs in Central America’s Barrios: Children without Childhoods
June 1, 2010
Some barrios in El Salvador and Honduras are incongruously known by such names as “Divine Paradise” or “Heaven’s Field.” If you walk down the paved streets of of Mejicanos, Apopa or Soyapango in El Salvador or Nueva Suyapa, Rivera Hernández or López Arellano in Honduras you will see people have water and electricity....Read More