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At the Rainbow Cultural Diversity Summer Program, it’s all about tangible experiences—whether it be cross-cultural dialogues, attending panel discussions, taking part in group work with those who might be from backgrounds different than your own, or taking in performances of ethnic dance and music.
#AbroadForYes formed in a bid to connect people together and try to get as many Irish citizens home to vote as possible, especially students studying abroad who might not have the funds to get home.
...Farahnaz Osmani, a student at CTI, connected with one of our editors and together they made plans to publish some of Osmani's computer generated imagery (CGI)...
...she set up CTI “…to lessen those hardships faced by the next generation of Afghan women” as they study and/or teach technology.
The report also notes that homicides involving sex workers are unfortunately less likely to ever be solved.
H.O.P.E Outreach, an outreach group based in Kelowna, British Columbia, hopes to change the conversation on sex worker safety and perhaps help to better those odds.
The activities of Bal-e- Parwaz Library- which literally means “Wings for Fly”- fly beyond the boundaries of the walls surrounding it.
Fast forward to 2017, and studies show this trend carrying over into cyberspace, with Afghan women found to be "disproportionately vulnerable" online. Instead of remaining silent about it, a group of 15 young Afghan volunteers have chosen to strike back, using the power of the pen.
Rainbow Cultural Diversity Summer Program is the very first Summer program for Afghan school students. It was organized by five Afghan college students who have experienced such programs abroad, and was hosted by Cultural House of Afghanistan for five days.
A 2015 study...regarding incidences of violence against sex workers found that 49% of respondents “…were either ‘unconfident’ or ‘very unconfident’ that the police will take crimes against them seriously."
In August, 2015, Amnesty International voted in favor of a policy that calls for the full decriminalization of consensual sex work. Definitions of sex work will vary. This author uses the term to refer “…to the consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for money or goods"...The Amnesty vote was supposed to make it possible for proposals to be drafted to rewrite legislation in countries which criminalize the consensual sale and purchase of sex. Sex work is already partially decriminalized in the United Kingdom and Canada...Now many sex workers in the United States are wondering when they’ll get their chance to be heard, and see sex work decriminalized here. This author asked some of them for their thoughts on the subject.
In May 2006 the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), an organization headquartered in Washington D.C., asked former Canadian Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific David Kilgour and David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, to investigate the claims of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. They were able to pull together 18 pieces of evidence that point to systematic organ harvesting mainly from living Falun gong practitioners.
