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Residents of the seven villages of Imider — mostly Amazigh people, an indigenous group across north Africa also known as Berbers — have been protesting a nearby silver mine for years, saying it has contaminated their water supply. (Beth Murphy/GroundTruth)
Rights

Far from COP, indigenous Moroccans challenge silver mine in years-long protest

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Democracy

Democracy is an inside job

If you take the medicine prescribed by your doctor and your condition only worsens, you know you need...

Nov 01, 2017
Female Students in Technology
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Female tech students from around the world share their stories

ORLANDO, Florida — Thousands of students flock to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing each year...

Oct 10, 2017
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Democracy

How one programmer used her disability to her advantage

ORLANDO, Florida — When Chieko Asakawa was young, she wanted to be an Olympian. Now, she’s an IBM Fellow,...

Oct 06, 2017
Rights

Why the tech industry needs people with disabilities — and vice versa

ORLANDO, Florida — For the roughly one billion people with disabilities around the globe, new technology can be...

Oct 05, 2017
Rights

From northeast India to Harvard, a gender imbalance in tech

ORLANDO, Florida — Melinda Gates handed Mehul Smriti Raje an award for her work supporting other women in...

Oct 05, 2017
The GroundTruth "Crossing the Divide" reporting team near Pikeville, Kentucky (Photo by Ben Brody/GroundTruth)
Democracy

On a mission to listen and report in Appalachia

PIKEVILLE, Kentucky  —  Listen to people who live here in the heart of rural Appalachia and it doesn’t...

Sep 27, 2017
Democracy

In a time of division, what does it mean to be an American?

Editor’s Note: “Common Ground” is a place for reported columns on issues that are bringing Americans together at...

Sep 25, 2017
Dancers in national costumes wait in the wings to perform for E.U. Day. Moldovans find their country in a tug of war between Russia and the E.U. (Carolyn Cakir/Medill/GroundTruth)
Rights

Moldova: Caught in a dangerous tug of war

CHISINAU, Moldova — In November 2016, an incredibly divided country voted for its next president. The candidates seemed...

Aug 18, 2017
Girls in Chisec, Guatemala, receive bicycles from an initiative started by GroundTruth's Lauren Bohn, SchoolCycle. Bicycles allow girls to more easily travel to school, and give them autonomy over their own movement. (Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)
Rights

Bicycles give poor girls autonomy, but a decision in D.C. could change that

One blistering Guatemalan afternoon in February, 86-year-old Candelaria gathered with three generations of women in her family to...

Aug 16, 2017
Democracy

The Charlottesville attack and America’s state of emergency

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia —The governor had just declared a state of emergency when the silver Dodge Challenger ploughed into...

Aug 13, 2017
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