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Thirty women from war-torn countries discussed the role of women in peace building Wednesday as a part of a four-day program aimed at bringing women leaders together to shape public policy. “We share a common goal, which is that security isn’t about tanks and soldiers, it’s about the ability to go to school, to get help, to get food,” said Wazhma Frogh, a gender and development specialist in Afghanistan. The panel, titled “Engendering Peace: Security Through an Inclusive Lens,” featured...
...prosthetic foot made of flexible materials that offered mobility for villagers accustomed to walking barefoot and sitting on the floor. First used broadly for land-mine victims in Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion, the $30 Jaipur foot has aided millions of patients in more than 25 developing or war-torn countries. Sethi...
DOOR-TO-DOOR DATA Because of the lack of reliable death and hospital records in Iraq, researchers resorted to individually surveying 9,345 households across the war-torn nation to come up with a snapshot of health that will help make new policy and restore social services...
...time from 2001, when Putin began a state takeover of the national television news, to more recently, when he tightened rules about how parties can win seats in parliament. But whatever implausible returns there were--like the 99% turnout with a 99% vote for Putin's party in war-torn Chechnya--Putin won because he is, undeniably, deeply popular...
...down. Gannon journeys through the tragic modern history of Afghanistan, beginning in the 1980s with the fall of the Soviet-backed communist regime and moving through the Taliban years into the twenty-first century. Along the way, she chronicles the shifting alliances and sentiments that plagued the war-torn country. Her cogent analysis and engaging narrative provide a window into a country so often obscured and, she argues, outright ignored by the West. Gannon’s narrative arc spans social and political divisions, with interviews that range from the most senior-ranking government officials in both the mujahideen...