Women gang in India protect the powerless
Amazing. The Gulabi Gang in India are against abusive husbands and fight to end child marriages.
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Amazing. The Gulabi Gang in India are against abusive husbands and fight to end child marriages.
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He has the guts to bury the lives of his own people to forget about them, but buries his yacht to remember it forever..
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosts the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) 10th Anniversary Celebration at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2013. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
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Enjoying fresh, clean water from a Good Neighbors well in Chad, Africa! Find out how we’re bringing clean water to thousands with our Water For Life project.
President Barack Obama just announced at the G8 Summit more than $300 million in additional USG humanitarian assistance for the Syria response, bringing total USG funding for the Syria crisis to more than $814 million. The new funding will support U.N. agencies and NGOs to provide urgently needed assistance to reach 3.2 million people in Syria, as well as Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, and Egypt. Take a look at the amazing USAID complex emergency map http://1.usa.gov/14gsciD
An Afghan family travels in the trunk of a car on the outskirts of Kabul on June 13, 2013.
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Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Dean Pittman and Director of Public Affairs and Outreach Mark Schlachter spoke to a group of graduate and advanced undergraduate students about US Multilateral Engagement this morning. The students visited the Department as a part of the Humpty Dumpty Institute’s Summer Intensive Session at the United Nations.
Indians wait at a bus stop in front of an advertisement for the city of Delhi in New Delhi on June 4, 2013.
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More than 140 people were killed when the Syrian government launched at least four ballistic missiles that struck three populated areas in the city of Aleppo (see map) and a town in Aleppo governorate on the week of February 17, 2013. © 2013 Human Rights Watch