Stories from the World Vision Report

Series produced by World Vision Report

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Individual stories from the weekly World Vision Report.

Individual stories from the weekly World Vision Report.


148 Pieces

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Benghazi Newspaper Editor
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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After the Libyan revolutionary movement began in Benghazi, journalists from the city, who had not been able to report freely before, suddenly were ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:10
Leiderman Ortiz
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Colombia, security has improved since the government began demobilizing paramilitary groups seven years ago. But the country is still one of the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBEZ, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 3
Exiled Somali Journalists
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. Eleven reporters have been killed in the last two years alone and man...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:37
Bloggers in Tunis
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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This year the organization “Reporters Without Borders” gave its special Netizen award to a group of Tunisian bloggers. The award – sponsored by Go...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
Cross Border Help in Libya
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The international community is scrambling to ship humanitarian aid to refugees who fled the fighting in Libya – and those who remain in Libya. The...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
Hainan Gender Gap
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Some of the discontent in China is a result of their one child policy. Adopted 30 years ago, it was an attempt to curb china’s exploding populatio...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Sidi Bouzid
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The small Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid is where the pro-democracy rebellion in the Mid East and North Africa began. It was here on December 17th, ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:58
Poverty and Recruitment in Libya
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi has vowed “to fight to the end, to the last man, last woman” to stay in power. The rebels are relying on defectors from C...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:52
Arabian Knightz
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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For years under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, musicians and writers were forced to censor themselves. Or be harassed by the secret police. Now, fo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Organ Grinder
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Mexico City is a noisy place most of the time, partly because of the musicians standing on busy intersections playing music on street organs. You k...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
Culion Island
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Culion Island is a remote chunk of land in the Philippines that once housed the world’s largest leper colony. At its peak, 16,000 patients lived t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Jailed Kurdish Children
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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During the turmoil of the last few weeks, Turkey’s been held up as a model of a democratic Muslim country. But Turkey’s got problems of its own. J...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 1
Koushary
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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When the massive pro-democracy protests in Cairo began in late January, restaurants and stores around the city’s center closed their doors. Tahrir...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
Stilt Girl
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In India, 40% of the population lives on less than $2 a day. To pay for food and other essentials, people have to come up with out-of-the-ordinary...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
Casas por Cristo
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Drug violence continues to claim lives in Mexico. Just last weekend more than 40 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez - ground zero in the drug war...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 2
Refugee Keepsakes
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Libya is close to Italy – and not just geographically. 100 years ago, Italy invaded the north coast of Africa and set up a colony in what is now L...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:40
Runners of Iten
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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If you’ve ever watched the end of a long-distance race on TV or in person there’s a good chance it was a runner from Kenya leading the way. For ma...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Line Dancers
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Americans around the country are struggling in this recession. But in southern West Virginia, coal-mining communities have been living with econom...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
Male Circumcision in South Africa
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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There are no simple solutions to the AIDS crisis in Africa. But researchers have known for several years there is one thing that greatly reduces t...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 3
India's Milk
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Danielle Nierenberg highlighted the importance of storage to prevent food from being wasted. The World Vision Report’s Cynthia Graber has one poten...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1

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