There are countries where going to school isn’t a burden but a dream. UNICEF has compiled a ranking of the top 10 countries with the highest proportion of children missing out on primary school.
Murtaza Ahmadi is a 5-year-old Afghan boy, lives with his family in the Eastern province of Ghazni, Afghanistan, and is famous for being the biggest fan of Messi, Argentinian football player at Barcelona and crowned FIFA Player of the Year – Ballon d’Or five times. One day, while he was playing wearing his striped plastic bag shirt
Could a seemingly innocuous object like a bicycle contribute to triggering a revolution? This is the question that the website of the documentary Voglio una ruota (I want a wheel) is asking itself, because the invention of bicycles, besides facilitating the right to mobility, encouraged women’s emancipation between the nineteenth and twentieth century. Voglio una ruota is
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) still haven’t been achieved. Much progress has been made but, only nine months from the deadline, accomplishing them remains out of reach. What are the MDGs. They are the most ambitious targets ever set by the United Nations to improve living conditions for the world’s population. They were drafted
One of the best ways to understand how a woman feels with a burqa on is wearing one. This, according to a man who marched on Thursday 5th March in the streets of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, wearing a cobalt blue burqa under a dull grey sky. The demonstrators, who were about two
