Stories: Social Issues
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In India, Stigma Of Mental Illness Hinders Treatment
In India, people with severe mental illnesses often turn to temples and shrines, not to doctors. Some social workers are trying to change this by focusing their efforts on India's ...
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India’s Mentally Ill: IRP Fellow reports for NPR
Resident exorcist Muthalama at the temple at Hanumanthapuram in rural Tamil Nadu claims she can purge the possessed of evil spirits. She uses the ...
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Kenya film Togetherness Supreme
Photo courtesy of PRI's "The World" Kenyans went to the polls Wednesday to vote on a draft constitution. The new constitution was introduced in the ...
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Worldview: China’s new generation
The woman in a red tunic and black leggings, like others of China's sophisticated younger generation, strides down a pedestrian shopping street in ...
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Worldview: A chance to talk to Chinese
SHANGHAI, China - The mammoth World Expo 2010, which just opened here, offers a terrific opportunity for U.S. public diplomacy - reaching out to millions of Chinese via our ...
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China is still working to recover from 2008 quake, and from years of ecological abuse
Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik is in China on a Gatekeeper Editors trip organized by the International Reporting Project, an independent journalism program based in ...
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Censorship hasn’t stopped the Internet from becoming a force in China
Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik is in China on a Gatekeeper Editors trip organized by the International Reporting Project, an independent journalism program based in ...
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IRP Journalists Report on “Loose Nukes” Issues
The spread of illicit nuclear materials, or “loose nukes,” is one of the most urgent issues of our time. IRP Fellows Joby Warrick, Sharon ...
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They Fled from Our War
1. Among the many consequences of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the plight of millions of Iraqi refugees is seldom mentioned. The stories of such people as Burhan ...
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Video: ‘Voices of Kenya’s Youth’
Kenya’s youth face many challenges including poverty, hunger, lack of employment prospects and an overburdened--and underfunded--education system. Students at the University of ...
