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New UN Appointments Signal Big Move Towards Gender Parity | AWT

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Under new leadership, the United Nations is finally taking measures to redress its long recognized failure to promote women’s leadership of the institution. Antonio Guterres, who assumed the role of Secretary-General on January 1st, campaigned as a champion of gender equality and upon taking the oath of office promised to make gender-parity within the 44,000-person Secretariat a priority. Meet some of the women he has appointed to top positions so far.

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#OrangeVest Sends SOS for Refugees | AWT

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Of the million refugees, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan, who arrived in Europe since the beginning of 2015, over 85 percent entered Europe through Greece. According to the U.N. refugee agency, they continue to arrive at a rate of almost 5,000 per day, but they are slipping from the grasp of the world's fickle attention. Georgia Lale, a 26-year old artist from Greece launched #OrangeVest a performance art project designed to remind us their struggles are far from over.

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Rejected By The World: A Refugee's Story | AWT

Added on by Alana Chloe Esposito.

Until recently, Thair Orfahli, a convivial Syrian just shy of his 27th birthday, had little to worry about save a tough exam or the travails of young love. Today, while waiting out the lengthy asylum process in Germany, he lives in a dormitory for refugees, but exists mainly a liminal space between the nightmare he has survived and the bright future he is determined, but not yet able, to forge. 

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