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Conductor on a Citi Hoppa bus.

Vocational training

Front-face customer care

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by Judy Thuo
by Hans Dembowski
Miners who witnessed or personally experienced violence showed more mental-distress symptoms than those who had not: inside a Bolivian mine.

Mental distress

Workplace violence

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by Manuel Parra
A village destroyed by Boko Haram near Maiduguri in Nigeria: The terrorist militia contributes to the destabilisation of the Lake Chad region.

Lake Chad region

Nexus makes sense

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by Fabian Böckler
Increasingly, even villagers want their daughters to learn: girl doing homework in Madhya Pradesh in 2007.

Social inclusion

The parents’ burden

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by Roli Mahajan
Library of a private college in São Paulo State.

University system

Efforts towards inclusion

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by Mariano Laplane
Students rallying for education rights in Colombo in late 2017.

Private education

“Fierce competition”

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by Sivali Ranawana
by Hans Dembowski
Overcrowded state-run primary school in Kisumu.

Inequality

Dissatisfaction with “free” public education

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Affirmative action does not mean that students of colour have an easy path to university degrees.

Education

Overrated model

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by Cema Tork
Bolivian working children and youths rally for their rights in 2007.

Children’s rights

Bolivia bows to international pressure

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by Manfred Liebel
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