Monthly Archive - September, 2011

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When I began working with journalists, editors and civil society leaders- and the public they serve- in countries where media freedom is not a given, one of the first things I noticed was the...

Posted on September 22, 2011 by W. Robert Pearson in Gender, Youth
YTP participants often address child marriage in community plays

I’ve just returned from a series of meetings in New York. With the UN General Assembly  and the annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference taking place, the energy in the...

Only a third of youth in the Arab world believe their education has prepared them to get a job, according to a recent...

Jocelyn Grange, a media consultant working for IREX in Chad, writes about two community radio stations and the dedicated journalists...

Posted on September 16, 2011 by W. Robert Pearson in Education, Media Development, Youth

Thirty years ago, I arrived in China as a young American diplomat after the normalization of relations between the two countries....

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Sarah Hennessey in Civil Society Strengthening, International Education, Education, Youth

When I think about what I want exchange students to experience during their time in the United States, grocery shopping has never made the list. Visit Washington D.C. and view the Declaration of...