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Posted on November 18, 2011 - in Conflict Resolution, Gender, Youth
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In Chorku, a small community in the Isfara district along Tajikistan’s border with Kyrgyzstan, Robiya is changing attitudes about girls’ education. In this area, only 42% of girls...

2011 IREX Annual Report

Our work today reaches and helps more people than ever before in our history. These stories highlight just a handful of the 300,000 people IREX has helped this year.

Posted on November 4, 2011 - in International Education, Education, Gender
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Mufara Hamidova provides legal assistance to women in Tajikistan on issues ranging from domestic violence to early marriage. As a manager at the League of Women Lawyers of Tajikistan, she...

Posted on October 26, 2011 - in International Education, Education
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During her recent tour of Central Asia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with dozens of current or rising leaders in civil society, government, and the private sector in Tajikistan....

The Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) team is very excited to share some more impact news from the program in Tajikistan!

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...

Posted on September 22, 2011 - Anne Johnson in Conflict Resolution, Gender, Youth
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Faroiz Makhamova

Last year, there were no girls enrolled past the 10th grade at Faroiz Makhamova's high school in Chorku, Tajikistan. This year, there are 20. 

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Sixty-four motivated community leaders from 21 countries arrived in the US recently to kick off the 2011 Community Solutions Program. ...

Posted on August 18, 2011 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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2011 Global UGRAD Fellows

143 young leaders from Eurasia and Central Asia arrived to begin academic and cultural fellowships at undergraduate institutions across the United States.

Posted on August 17, 2011 - in International Education, Education
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A new class of Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellows arrived in the US recently to kick-off their...