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International Education Week 2005

Each year, IREX participates in International Education Week, a joint initiative of the US Department of State and the US Department of Education intended to celebrate the benefits of...

Posted on November 11, 2005 - in Media Development
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The Casablanca-based Centre for Media Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa (CMF MENA), an IREX grantee, has published a report "The Right of Access to Information in Morocco."...

Posted on October 25, 2005 - in Media Development
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After a bombing, NINA operations continued

Behind the blast walls and checkpoints that carve through Baghdad, above a street lined with long-shuttered international airline offices and dusty antiquarians, an independent Iraqi news agency...

Posted on October 11, 2005 - in Higher Education Development, Education
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John Goldrick and Aleksey Nechaev

University administrators and Ministers of Education from across Eurasia were able to gather in Moscow to discuss “Case Studies and Models for Higher Education Reform” at a...

Posted on October 10, 2005 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Gender
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IREX ventured to Yemen as part of its broader community development activities to examine the needs, obstacles and accomplishments of local programs addressing women’s participation in...

Posted on September 30, 2005 - in Media Development
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Corruption in Nigeria is crippling and damaging the country’s fragile democracy. Money has been a key tool in distorting the political process and governance of this African nation of over...

Posted on September 26, 2005 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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UGRAD

IREX recently launched the 13th year of the Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) welcoming nearly 170 undergraduate students from across Eurasia for academic study in the United...

Posted on September 19, 2005 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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Catherine Yusupov with a class of students

The sixth and final year of the Russian-US Young Leadership Fellows for Public Service (YLF) Program concluded with a reunion in Moscow, Russia, reuniting alumni and university sponsors to...

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As part of a broader trend by the Uzbek government to close down both international and local nongovernmental organizations, on September 12th the Civil Court of Tashkent ordered IREX to suspend...

Posted on September 1, 2005 - in
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IREX began its US Fellowships Program recruitment season at the American Political Science Association (APSA) conference in Washington, DC, over Labor Day weekend.