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In a bid to reconcile strict gender-segregation laws with a desire to increase employment opportunities for women, Saudi Arabia is planning to construct a new industrial "city" exclusively for female workers, Russian news agency RT reports. The idea is mind-blowing to say the least. More women would be able to be a part of the workforce and move freely about women-only cities in Saudi Arabia than they could in 'regular' cities. Question to ponder: would the implementation of this idea represent a cultural step forward for Saudi Arabia towards gender equality or would it be a step that further isolated women and is repressive? What do you think of the idea given the ingrained gender norms of Saudi Arabia?
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On October 16, about 50 Palestinians joined by international activists blocked Apartheid Road 443 (known as Modi'in, which passes on West Bank lands, connect...
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"A pesar de que la esclavitud no es legal, hay millones de personas que viven en esclavitud. Uno de los lugares e industrias que propician la mano de obra esclava está ligada a la producción del cacao". El líder mundial de producción de cacao es Costa de Marfil y el sucio secreto de la esclavitud es un lugar común en las plantaciones de cacao en este país del oeste de Africa. Los niños son pasados de contrabando desde países como Mali, Nígel y Burkina Faso y llevados a lugares remotos a plantaciones aisladas del resto del mundo. Mientras que las estadísticas son solo aproximadas, este video afirma que el 35% del chocolate del mundo está producido por mano de obra esclava (y hemos visto estimaciones aún mayores). ¿Qué es lo que nos lleva a esta horrible situación? ¿Es una cuestión geográfica?
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Oct 8, 2012 Continuous updates of new photos during the season Olive harvest season in Palestine has begun. Immediately, Israeli colonists illegally residing in the occupied territories as well as ...
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A United Nations report cites widespread shortages of food, water, electricity, jobs, hospital beds and classrooms amid an exploding population in an area of Gaza. While most slums are symptomatic of issues that would be addressed by an economic and urban geography analysis, the slums of Gaza are different. Many slum issues are tied to city politics, but in Gaza these slums are also connected to some of the larger geopolitical issues of the region. Tags: Political, urban, squatter, poverty, MiddleEast, economic, place, unit 4 political, unit 7 cities.
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I'm a huge fan of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's artistic aerial photography. This image of Rio de Janeiro and the favela is a striking one. I am also posting this to show the how easy the website justpaste.it is to use. Students with no website creation training can produce sharable materials online. Now this isn't the most professional outlet, but I envision some middle school or high school students producing a class project that can be transformed into something that reaches a bigger audience as it is shared with a broader community. Tags: remote sensing, images, art, worldwide, K12, edtech.
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1. Prohibición de las guerras. 2. Maximizar la eficiencia y la conservación = simplicidad voluntaria. 3. Superar el uso de combustibles fósiles. 4. Convertirse a las energías renovables. 5. Promover la agricultura orgánica comunitaria, urbana y hogareña. L 6. La transformación de las empresas y organizaciones. 7. Asegurar una democracia social participativa. 8. Potenciar el rol de la Mujer y promover el (auto)control de la natalidad.
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The News in Pictures Click the thumbnails to watch the full albums Palestine Palestine 2010 Palestine 2009...
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President pardons a number of political prisoners who were arrested during the revolution in 2011.
One of the focal points of the protests raging in Zuccotti Park and around the world is the sizable gap between the rich and everyone else. Yet as the below graphic shows, there are many different levels of wealth among even the richest of the rich.
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This article is a classic; one of the most well-cited articles from the Journal of Geography. Tags: Geography Education, Geography, Unit 1 GeoPrinciples
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Interesting map about farming land lending to other countries in Africa. Impossible to find the original source, but is attricuted to the Financial Times. Here is a link to the image (in low res) without political content (UN related): http://new.uneca.org/lpi/africanlandrush.aspx ; Tags: Africa, agriculture, unit 5 agriculture.
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Following the big Mother Jones release of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney'shidden-camera comment on the "47 percent" of Americans "who will vote for the president no matter what," my colleague at The Atlantic, David Graham, posted an article Monday looking at the real "47 percent." Using the Tax Foundation's data on 2008's income tax non-payers (people who filed a tax return but did not actually owe federal income taxes), he found that the states with the highest rates tended to be traditionally Republican states. Graham writes: Romney's statements are a little unclear, but it appears that the 47 percent figure represents all of those who pay no income tax, rather than the Democratic base. His problem is that those people are disproportionately in red states -- that is, states that tend to vote Republican...One important note about these numbers: This measures only those Americans who filed for taxes with no liability. Millions more didn't even file; it's those millions, added to the estimated 52 million here, who combine to make that 47 percent.
Zionist pressure bordering on blackmail and bribery goes on every day.
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