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Literacy in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
UNESCO: Ensuring lifelong learning opportunities for all involves ensuring that diversity – including ethnic and linguistic diversity – is no cause for exclusion. Respecting cultural and linguistic rights will be essential for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Wednesday 22 February 2017India: regional language stories and counting — observing International Mother Language Day with YourStory
The state of Indian languages Official numbers state that 122 languages remain in India. However, if we go by acclaimed literary critic Ganesh Devy’s exhaustive study on Indian languages, People’s Linguistic Survey of India, there […]
Wednesday 22 February 2017Given Away as a Child Bride, Afghan Woman Describes 24 Years of Abuse
The Law, Patriarchy & Religious Fundamentalism: Women’s Rights in Pakistan
Torture; Asia and Global perspectives
The long read The Very Quiet Foreign Girls poetry group
Former lover of the poet known as Iran’s Sylvia Plath breaks his silence
50 yrs after Forough Farrokhzad’s death, Ebrahim Golestan talks about his affair with the giant of Persian literature. “In every culture you have cultural icons, like Shakespeare in Britain. Farrokhzad was like that”.
Tuesday 14 February 2017Tajikistan’s population may reach 11.5 mln people by 2030
THE MILLENNIALS OF AFGHANISTAN HAVE NEVER KNOWN A WORLD WITHOUT WAR. SO WHY ARE THESE KIDS SO HOPEFUL?
Many millennials in Afghanistan are extraordinarily resilient, even hopeful. “The future of Afghanistan is going to be very bright,” says Zhala Sarmast, 17, a member of groundbreaking women’s cycling group that biked across the country to promote female independence.
Friday 10 February 2017
