Sep 04, 2015

Brittany: Bilingual School offers Monolingual Classes

On 2 September 2015, the Agence Bretagne Presse reported that a school in Brittany which has been offering bilingual stream in Breton and French since 2003, will reform its educational structure. Under the new policy, younger children will have bilingual teachers on a half-time basis, while older kids will be taught full-time in French only. This contradicts the law from 2013 on the Refondation de...

Sep 04, 2015

Brittany: Bilingual School offers Monolingual...

On 2 September 2015, the Agence Bretagne Presse reported that a school in Brittany which has been offering bilingual stream in Breton and French since 2003, will reform its educational structure. Under...

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Sep 04, 2015

Crimean Tatars: Activists’ Bodies Found near...

On 30 August 2015, the bodies of two Crimean Tatar activists were found in the village of Bogdanovich, near Simferopol. The Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Tatar People's Assembly, Mr Nariman Celalov, has...

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Sep 04, 2015

Chittagong Hill Tracts: Full Execution of CHT...

On 4 September 2015, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh, Mr Robert D. Watkin, stated that the peace and stability in CHT requires the Peace Accord to be fully implemented. The envoy...

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Sep 03, 2015

Oromo: HRLHA Releases Statement Condemning A...

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa has released a statement condemning the arrest and arbitrary imprisonment of hundreds of Oromo citizens, and calling on readers to write to the Ethiopian authorities...

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Sep 03, 2015

Mapuche: Open Letter Written by Mapuche to Chilean...

This week representatives of the Mapuche community in Temuco wrote an open letter to Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, asking her to remove Chilean military forces from Mapuche territory, and to restore...

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Sep 03, 2015

Taiwan: ‘Color, Way of Love’ Project Introduced...

Nippon Paint China’s project ‘Color, Way of Love’ – a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative –  has been launched all across South-East Asia. As part of the project,...

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Sep 03, 2015

Somaliland: A Success Story Unrecognized

After self-declaring statehood in 1991, Somaliland’s path has been in a completely different direction than that of Somalia. A great example of autonomous recovery, Somaliland rejected foreign aid...

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Sep 03, 2015

Chin: Mudslide Strikes Tonzang Township

Tuikhingzang, a village within the Tonzang Township was submerged in thick mud in the early hours of Friday [28 August 2015]. This mudslide follows a wave of natural disasters hitting areas of the Chin...

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