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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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An Editor’s View - China’s environmental issues
Peter Thomson is the environment editor for “The World” on BBC/PRI. In this video Thomson discusses his impressions of China's vast population and the effects on the ...
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An Editor’s View - Christy George
Over 50% of Chinese live in rural areas, farming the land. Runoff from fertilizers, pesticides and animal waste is polluting China’s rivers and contaminating produce. A few ...
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IRP Gatekeepers’ Fact-Finding Trip to Liberia
The 24th and current President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf photo by: Jonathan Ernst, 2001 IRP Fellow November 7-18, 2010 The International ...
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IRP Fellow film premieres on PBS’s POV July 6
Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen’s incisive Promised ...
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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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Brazil water protection a $100 Million Market?
São Paulo state's Atibainha Reservoir feeds the Cantareira water system, one of Latin America’s biggest. Water ...
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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 ...
