By Advait Praturi
Dr. Asim Khwaja, associate professor and economist from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke at IICAS about the state of education of children in Pakistan and the Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools (LEAPS) project. As its name implies, the goal of the LEAPS project is to understand the extent of [...]
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By Claire Halbrook
“Women aren’t the problem, they’re the solution along with men.”
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, recently spoke at UC San Diego about his new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Through this new publication, he hopes to recruit new followers “to [...]
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By Ariel Lee
Forsaken is a short documentary created by a team of international students to raise awareness on the issue of Hong Kong’s elderly living in poverty. Significantly, it touches on a subject that not many know about–cage homes, a form of government housing that resembles human chicken coops. With the assistance of [...]
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