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“Release the yellow butterflies,” young people set sustainable goals

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Colombia is an enchanted land of magical realism and contrasts. It’s a country in which millions of creatures coexist in peace, making it a true paradise of biodiversity. Yet despite the country’s growing wealth, inequality in Colombia has also grown, and rural areas are the most affected. Indigenous people and Afro-Colombians… Read more →←
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For every girl: Empowering adolescent girls is investing in a brighter future

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There are 600 million adolescent girls in the world, most of them living in the developing world. 600 million adolescent girls who each overflow with the potential to become an entrepreneur, a scientist, a visionary change-maker, or the leader of her country. But so many of these girls face daily, arduous barriers that prevent them from… Read more →←
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A child is a child

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Her name is Mary*. She’s from Benin City in Nigeria. When she was seventeen, Mary tried to escape a life with no prospects to work in a restaurant in Italy. Instead, she was set up to be trafficked into the sex industry. Her story is a story that UNICEF has heard again and again. It is a byproduct of a huge industry that has grown up… Read more →←
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Life on the edge in eastern Ukraine

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“My cats eyes were so wide, he was also very afraid,” Diana tells us matter of factly. The 10-year-old is explaining what happened during a recent day of intense shelling in Avdiivka, her hometown on the frontline of east Ukraine’s more than three-year-old conflict. This is where you hear first-hand the violence that continues… Read more →←

Building peace on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border

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Tairbek Abdilashim uulu, 22, lives in a village in south Kyrgyzstan, a few hundred meters from the Tajikistan border. “It’s so close, but until a couple of years ago, we didn’t interact with our neighbors; we didn’t even say hello,” the 22-year-old recalls. Things have changed since then. Tairbek has built his own network of… Read more →←

A Syrian refugee is the first student in three generations

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Last week I was welcomed by Sidra’s family into their home in Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Her family fled the conflict in Syria in late 2013. Sidra lives with her parents, grandparents, two uncles and their families, one aunt, and six siblings. The three-room house is unfinished, with unpainted walls, no locks and only one… Read more →←
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Education helps Hadiza and Mustapha look to the future

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Mustapha loves meeting his friends for a quick game of soccer before class starts in the camp he now calls home. His mother and siblings fled there after Boko Haram militants destroyed their home, killing his grandfather and later his father when he returned to salvage things from their shop. When Mustapha, who is now 12, arrived in the… Read more →←

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