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UNESCO looks at education, especially for girls, under attack
Afghan girl reading
A new report by UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, examines how dangerous it has become for many young people to get an education. Bernard O'Malley, the author of the report, says the types of attacks include gunning down of groups of school children in Afghanistan, targeted assassinations in Thailand, for example, where individual teachers are targeted by assassins riding up behind them on motorbikes and shooting them, and abduction and kidnapping in places like Haiti and the Philippines. But that's not all.
Upcoming elections in Burundi put into sharp relief the needs of women.
In order for women in office to make a real difference, experts say, there needs to be enough elected leaders so that they form what is often called a critical mass. In Burundi, which is preparing for presidential elections in June, and before that, local elections, there are many challenges to reach the goal of 30 percent quota of women in government and Parliament. Michelle Carter, the director of Care International in Burundi, describes to IRIN Radio's Louise Tunbridge the political environment ahead of the elections.
A Pacific Islander's desperate plea to save her islands
Ursula Rakova
Ursula Rakova comes from the Carterets, a series of tiny islands that are part of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. The people of Carteret Islands are the world's first climate change refugees. Rising sea levels have cut one of the small islands in half. Vegetable gardens and drinking water supplies have been contaminated by sea water. Rakova's work involves relocating people from the island to the mainland and helping them make a new life for themselves. Because land there is passed down from mother to daughter, she had hoped to pass on to her daughter(s) the land on her island. At a meeting on climate change and women last year, she made a heartfelt plea for help to save her motherland.
Producer: Diane Bailey
Duration: 14'00"
