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  • Agents for world peace -- inside the United Nations International School (People's Daily)
    posted on November 20, 2009 at 04:30:56 am
    A cultural institution that gives students an access all areas pass to the world, the United Nations International Schools (UNIS) gives students a trip around the globe in just a stroll down the school hallway. "We've got over 60 countries represented among the staff and that diversity of cultures from within the teaching staff brings about perspectives that can only really be achieved here ...
  • Kids own cultural passports at UN International School (People's Daily)
    posted on November 18, 2009 at 04:43:00 am
    Every Child attending the United Nations International School (UNIS) in central Manhattan, New York City, has a cultural passport at her/his fingertips. Students can explore Latin America through special foods, visit Japan through friends' hometown memories, or read an epic French story in language classes -- where they have so many opportunities to appreciate different cultures from all over ...
  • Diversity brings children together at UN International School (People's Daily)
    posted on November 17, 2009 at 02:58:33 am
    Students at the United Nations International School (UNIS) in central Manhattan, New York City (NYC), may have to face all daily battles that kids elsewhere do as they struggle to fit in with their classmates from all over the world. But with 120 different cultural backgrounds converged at this building, dynamics is created among the 1,550 students here. "The differences here are wide so ...
  • Poet Sarah Jones explores need for cultural arts, diversity through characters (The Muskegon Chronicle)
    posted on October 26, 2009 at 02:38:34 am
    Chronicle/Megan Lange Sarah Jones changes roles during her "You and Me" skit at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Muskegon on Sunday. The skit comically discussed national issues with diversity and stereotypes, as well as the importance of the arts through several characters.
  • Anti-Poverty Fight Needs More Than Money (MalaysiaNews.net)
    posted on October 18, 2009 at 06:39:45 pm
    NEW YORK, Oct 18 (IPS) - "Investing in children and securing their rights is one of the surest ways to ending poverty," U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told 1,500 students at the United Nations Int...
  • But Does He Do Laundry? (New York Times)
    posted on October 18, 2009 at 06:21:02 am
    The real estate broker of Alexei Ratmansky, the Russian dancer and choreographer and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, took his efforts to help his client to a new level.
  • Ishmael Beah, former Sierra Leone child soldier, to host book talk at CSU (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
    posted on October 14, 2009 at 02:35:30 pm
    Ishmael Beah, a human rights activist and author of "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," will give a book talk at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at Columbus State University.
  • Poet, actress, activist bringing her message to Muskegon (The Muskegon Chronicle)
    posted on October 11, 2009 at 11:14:51 am
    MUSKEGON — She fought and beat efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to censor her poetry.She’s a Tony award-winning playwright and performer and UNICEF spokeswoman for “Violence Against Children,” an international effort aimed at bringing awareness to the problem.Contributed photoThe...
  • 'Boy soldier' to speak at Ball State tonight (The Star Press)
    posted on September 15, 2009 at 07:26:04 am
    MUNCIE — Ball State University will host author Ishmael Beah at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Emens Auditorium.
  • Stars in alignment (The Australian)
    posted on July 31, 2009 at 02:00:00 pm
    ALEXEI Ratmansky has just moved to New York but he's quickly adopted the protective colouration of the busy New Yorker. Just wear black. Crop your hair short. Attract attention only in the workplace.

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