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UN official looks at US housing crisis

anna @ November 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The economic crisis has hit American homeowners and renters especially hard. You can read the impact on the faces of the homeless and in the yard signs that say foreclosed. Now a UN official is seeing it for herself on a tour of the United States. Reporter Anna Sussman went along for the ride in [...]

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Rwanda on Trial

anna @ November 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

How does a country recover from a genocide? In Rwanda, the government has implemented a traditional system of justice and reconciliation known as the Gacaca courts. The courts are expected to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people accused of participating in the 1994 genocide and promote reconciliation between genocide perpetrators and survivors. Jonathan [...]

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Burmese Crackdown Continues

anna @ March 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Despite the military government’s promise to hold multi-party elections in 2010, Burmese refugees, monks and resistance fighters say the crackdown on dissent in far from over. Jonathan Jones and Anna Sussman report for Current TV.
Same Same but Mae Sot
An unknown future for the monks at the forefront of the Saffron Uprising. [...]

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Female Guides Gain Ground in Nepal Mountains

anna @ November 3, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Anna Sussman writes on the rise of women in the traditionally masculine field of mountain climbing, accompanied by a short video of a female led ascent to Annapurna Base Camp by Jonathan Jones.

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Slow march of women’s rights in Uganda

anna @ June 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Anna Sussman writes on adultery laws and women’s rights in Uganda, and the struggle for girls’ education.
Ugandan Adultery Law Curbs Effects of Polygamy
Ugandan Science Scholarships Tilt Against Women

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