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Iran's IRGC Looks To Recruit Child 'Combatants' As Young As 12
4+ hour, 44+ min ago (12+ words) Iran's IRGC Looks To Recruit Child 'Combatants' As Young As 12rferl.org...
Students Join Iran Protests As Unrest Grows Over Economic Crisis
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (72+ words) Students Join Iran Protests As Unrest Grows Over Economic Crisis'Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Iranians staged a third day of protests over a dire economic situation driven by high inflation and the national currency trading at record lows. Students at…...
Central Asian Schoolchildren Caught Up In Russia's Crackdown On Migrants
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (792+ words) Aizura and her 10-year-old daughter arrived recently in Russia from a visit to Kyrgyzstan and planned to rejoin their family. They got as close as a Moscow airport. Then Russia's widening crackdown on Central Asian migrants, who face growing harassment,…...
Back To School In Serbia? Universities Seek To Break Student Boycott
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (503+ words) NOVI SAD, Serbia -- Serbian universities are hoping to reopen their doors in September following months of student boycotts, but Jelena Stankovic is adamant: "I will not return to my studies." Stankovic is a student at the Academy of Arts in…...
Ukrainian NGO Accuses Russia-Controlled Luhansk Of Operating 'Child Trafficking' Database
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (452+ words) A Ukrainian NGO has accused Russia of "state-sponsored child trafficking" after a group of administrators in Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine published an online catalog of what they called Ukrainian orphans. Mykola Kuleba, the head of Save Ukraine, said a database…...
Pakistan Doctor Fights To Bring Neonatal Care To Remote Villages
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (83+ words) Dr. Shazia Khpalwak says her patients in rural Balochistan lack clean drinking water, have poor nutrition, and don't have access to vaccines. Khpalwak works to improve lives by getting medication and advice to struggling mothers. Dr. Shazia Khpalwak says her…...
Silent Deportation: Russia's Crackdown On Crimean Tatars Echoes Soviet-Era Expulsions
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (827+ words) As Ukraine marks the anniversary of Stalin-era deportations of Crimean Tatars more than eight decades ago, members of the ethnic minority group living on the Russian-occupied Black Sea peninsula are enduring a renewed campaign of repression. May 18 is known in…...
No More Ukrainian Classes In The Parts Of Ukraine Under Russia’s Thumb
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (347+ words) Rights groups say Moscow is seeking to erase the Ukrainian identity and Russify the parts of Ukraine it holds. The Kremlin is set to take a step in that direction come September: Under a draft directive, the study of Ukrainian…...
Freed From ‘Reeducation Camp,’ Ukrainian Teen Describes Pro-Russian Indoctrination
11+ mon, 3+ day ago (607+ words) There was absolutely nothing Ukrainian. It was a very large pro-Russian machine." That's how one Ukrainian teenager described a camp in Crimea where he was sent against his will and subjected to months of military-style training in Russian language and…...