by Claire Ji | 4 Dec 2018 | Human Rights, Podcasts
Venezuelan citizens scrounge for food and medicine while prices soar. Where is the formerly prosperous oil exporter, now in crisis, headed? In the grips of the worst economic recession in the Western hemisphere, Venezuela has spiraled into a full-blown...
by Christine Fernando | 2 Jul 2018 | Americas, Asia, China, Education, Indiana University, Personal Reflections, Student Posts, United States, Youth Voices
Chinese students flaunting luxury cars and designer clothes fuel a stereotype that ignores the harsh reality for many compatriots on U.S. campuses. Chinese high school exchange students act out skits during their orientation near Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 August 2017...
by News Decoder | 25 Jun 2018 | Human Rights, King's Academy, Middle East, Student Posts, Women, Youth Voices
By Muna Matouq New feminist movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp may be shaking up the Western world, but in other countries, women still live without the legal protection the West takes for granted. Jordan is a prime example of this, with one of the worst rankings in...
by News Decoder | 21 Jun 2018 | Americas, Education, Indiana University, Student Posts, United States, Youth Voices
By Emily Isaacman After the 2016 presidential election, Tom Lewis, interim director of the Intensive English Program at Indiana University, said his class of foreign students felt amused, not concerned. “I think they feel that their experience here has been very...
by Nelson Graves | 20 Jun 2018 | News Decoder Updates
By Nelson Graves Three schools on three continents have agreed to join News-Decoder, expanding our network of academic institutions as we prepare to launch a revamped and beefed-up program for young people around the world. Herlufsholm School in Denmark, Middlesex...