Stories: Leaders
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Speaking Out For Justice in Haiti: Evel Fanfan
Evel Fanfan is a Haitian human rights lawyer and activist. He is the co-founder of AUMOHD [Association des Universitaires Motivés pour une Haiti de Droits) or Action for Human Rights in Haiti founded in 2002. Despite constant intimidation, Fanfan continues to speak out against worker exploitation and human rights abuses of the poor and...
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The Growing Evangelical Population in Latin America
I have been living in a small town in Guatemala’s Highlands for the last few months, and fireworks at night are common. Yet around noon last Wednesday, I heard loud explosions and saw the tell-tale hanging smoke cloud indicating somebody was setting off rockets. As I walked to the center of town for lunch, I could hear the...
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“Nothing For Us, Without Us”: Women Rise in Afghanistan, Malawi, Nepal, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Ghana
From countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Ghana, Nepal and Zimbabwe, participants faced a similar challenge – how to overcome the exclusion of women from political and public life. Despite their different contexts, cultures and political systems, the women highlighted some common problems and common solutions. Women’s voices must be heard from every corner and at every level....
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Poor Countries Listen to Their Elderly Citizens; We Should Too
The Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, has given an interview to the New Statesman in which he essentially dismisses the views of the elderly. He told the magazine that ‘every cohort is in favour of gay marriage apart from the over-65s'. I hope he now sincerely regrets this implication. No matter what the subject,...