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Category: International

Bogota

Quarantined in Bogota

April 6, 2020 Christopher Burke Coronavirus, International One comment

A friend asked me on Whatsapp today how my cats were doing. They’re doing just fine. Early on, I fretted about having enough food

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colombia protest

Reporting from Colombia as nationwide protests continue

December 5, 2019 Christopher Burke Activism, International One comment

On November 21, 2019, Colombia became the latest country in Latin America to take to the streets. Following protests in Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador,

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Colombia

The complicated, ever-evolving, nitty-gritty of peace in Colombia

June 24, 2019 Christopher Burke Corruption, International One comment

In November 2016, then-Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos signed peace agreements with the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,) Colombia’s largest guerrilla group

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Colombia

9 things I’ve learned in 9 years in Colombia

June 1, 2019 Christopher Burke Cities, International One comment

In 1971 after graduating college, I left Ireland. The zeitgeist and personal choice led me to the US, first to Ohio and then to

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Venezuela

A country in ruins: A mother’s death in Venezuela

April 30, 2019 Eduardo Ponce International One comment

I don’t want to leave, but I have to. When I left, I didn’t want to go. But in Venezuela, there was nothing more

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UN resolution

US attempts to abort UN resolution on conflict-related sexual violence

April 25, 2019 Renee Shur Civil Rights, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Another day. Another outrage by the Trump administration. This time the outrage happened on the floor of the United Nations. While the attention of

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Changing Pakistani women’s lives, one sip of tea, one bike ride at a time

March 28, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Immigration, International, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

Sadia Khatri is determined to change the lives of women and girls in Pakistan—one tea-sipping, snacking, strolling, bicycle-riding excursion at a time.  The story

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Togo: another country I know nothing about

March 6, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Democracy, International Leave a comment

Togo is not Tonga. I had not thought about either of those tiny nations until, literally, yesterday, when I wrote a post about a

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Tonga

What I learned by sending school supplies to Tonga

March 4, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, International One comment

Where’s Tonga? That’s a question I had never before asked, until a young woman I know joined the Peace Corps, was assigned to the

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FridaysforFuture

15-year-old Swedish student sparks international Fridays for Future movement

March 3, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Climate Change, International, Protest/Resistamce Leave a comment

Sometimes it takes just one person to spark a movement. Swedish student Greta Thunberg is one such person. In August 2018 the then fifteen-year-old

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