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Environment & Society

ENVIRONMENT

Belgium’s Repair Cafés. Where you can recycle your favourite objects while making new friends

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/belgium-repair-cafe

CLIMATE CHANGE

“We need to become the hope”, Eskimo shaman Angaangaq on the spiritual significance of climate change

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/angaangaq-angakkorsuaq-interview

Climate change is flooding Jakarta: Watch the documentary

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/ciliwung-river-jakarta

Rethinking Urban Planning in a Changing Climate: Case study on Flood-Prone Jakarta

http://www.newcitiesfoundation.org/rethinking-urban-planning-in-a-changing-climate-case-study-on-flood-prone-jakarta/

A flood of tweets is helping a megacity deal with extreme weather

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/petajakarta-etienne-turpin

CONSERVATION

Akagera welcomes lion cubs as part of a successful conservation initiative

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/akagera-lions-cubs-born

Colobus Conservation, restoring Kenya’s coasts to protect monkeys

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/colobus-conservation-monkeys-kenya-forests

The conservation success story of the sacred forest in Kenya

http://www.lifegate.com/people/lifestyle/conservation-success-story-kaya-kinondo-sacred-forest-kenya

Rwanda welcomes the return of the black rhino after a 10-year absence

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/rwanda-black-rhinos-reintroduced-akagera

SOCIETY

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Some say the poor can’t save: Rwanda’s Abarikumwe women prove otherwise

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/rwanda-abarikumwe-women

Mama Mbogas feed Nairobi local, fresh food ordered with a SokoText SMS

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/kenya-mama-mbogas-sokotext

HandUp: technology and human kindness to end homelessness

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/handup

The young Indonesian Gamal Albinsaid trades waste for health care

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/garbage-clinical-insurance

From picking rags to the riches of waste management: this is I Got Garbage

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/i-got-garbage

how safari tourism is impacting communities around akagera national park

http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2015-08-25/191867/

Safaris support Rwandan communities under the king of the savannah’s watch

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/akagera-community-freelance-guides

African beauty queens make children with cleft smile

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/smile-train-cleft-east-africa

MIGRATION

Refugees in Armenia: An unexpected “homecoming” for Syria’s Armenian Diaspora

http://theeuarmeniafriendshipgroup.com/872-2/?preview_id=872&preview_nonce=9b5bca5a04

Efficiency of the Policy and Practice of Integration and Empowerment of Refugee Women in Armenia

http://ichd.org/?laid=1&com=module&module=static&id=742

NEWS

Religious intolerance grows in Indonesia

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/eviction-repatriation-reeducation-gafatar-members

THE RWANDAN REFERENDUM HAS SPOKEN, KAGAME CAN STAY. LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/rwandan-referendum-kagame-reconfirmed

Armenia will be part of the Eurasian Transport Corridor connecting India to Europe via Iran

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/armenia-iran-north-south-transport-corridor

Fighting in the Caucasus. Tensions between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan resume

http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/fighting-resumes-nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan