Focus on Social Media Mobilization: Facebook wars in Libya
As rival factions continue to decimate Libya’s capital and combatants take up assault rifles and grenade launchers, a new kind of street fighter emerges – the keyboard warrior.
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Focus on Social Media Mobilization: Myanmar’s genocide
Once one of the least connected countries in the world, Myanmar was eager to catch up to the ever-connected, globalized world when it emerged from decades of military rule in 2011.
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Focus on Miracle Workers: The Christ of the Nuba Mountains
Dr. Catena opened the 435-bed Mother of Mercy Hospital in the hamlet of Gidel, where he alone treats a population of one million for everything from childbirth to leprosy and pediatric kidney cancer.
Read MoreFocus on Miracle Workers: The Surgeon of Madaya
26-year-old dentistry student, Muhammad Darwish, took matters into his own hands when the Syrian civil war launched him out of his profession and into a new one – a surgeon.
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Focus on Miracle Workers: The Barber of Larkana
Pakistan has an epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of children vulnerable and alone. Bandits known as “dacoits” kidnap children for ransom money, and in rural provinces like Larkana, local law enforcement is practically powerless.
Read MoreFocus on Miracle Workers: The Shadow Doctor
Known in the humanitarian medical relief world as the “Indiana Jones of Surgery,” David Nott is a renowned British surgeon who has made a name for himself volunteering in chaotic war and disaster environments.
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Focus on Honor Killings: Pakistan
In Pakistan, where religion is inextricably tied to culture and tradition, “honor” killings carried out in the name of a family’s reputation have become normalized and are on the rise.
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Focus on Honor Killings: Israel
Israeli media continues to paint the murders of Arab-Israeli women, dying at the hands of their own family members, as a uniquely “Arab” problem and fail to address the larger societal flaws at work.
Read MoreFocus on Honor Killings: India
India’s history of honor killings exist in an already vast context of gender-based violence.
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Focus on Honor Killings: Jordan
Despite being considered the most progressive Arab nation in the Middle East, Jordan maintains one of the highest rates of honor crimes in the world.
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