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Moments from the trip: Perry Beeman’s reflections
If you want to write about the environment, you have to see the environment. In Gishwati Forest, I paid for my request to attempt to photograph the chimpanzees that scientists are researching by participating in a 101/2-hour hike one day....
Promised Land - “Sneak Preview”
by IRP Staff
Sunday, March 21, 8pm – 10 pm Busboys and Poets (Langston Room) 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 “Promised Land,” is a film by Yoruba Richen about South Africa’s efforts to fulfill a post-apartheid pledge to return land to blacks who were forcibly removed from their lands over decades. This beautifully shot film ...
Borderline detection
by Sharon Weinberger
The radiation alarm started wailing and flashing its red strobe light on an otherwise ordinary day last August as a car tried to pass through the Sadakhlo border crossing. The alarm itself wasn’t unusual. This remote outpost linking the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Armenia scans hundreds of cars, buses and trucks every ...
Gatekeeper Editors
Peru 2009
This IRP Gatekeepers trip focused on the political, economic, health, development and environmental issues that affect Peru, South America’s third largest country in area and fourth largest in population. Gatekeepers met with the top leaders of the country and key opinion-makers.
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IRP BLOG
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- January 08, 2010
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- by Louise Lief
Peru Journal - Part 4: The Peruvian Amazon
FROM THE FIELD
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- February 17, 2010
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- by Sean Carberry
Promise and Pitfalls in Peru
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- January 13, 2010
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- by Ruxandra Guidi
Earthquake devastates Haiti
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- November 23, 2009
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- by Amna Nawaz
Filling a gap in Pakistan’s school system