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Vote for the Winners of the 2015 Global Photo Competition

In a world saturated with media, the power of a single, compelling image can cut through the clutter. CIPE’s 2015 Global Photo Competition seeks to highlight creative and inspiring visual answers to this crucial question: How can individuals be empowered to improve their lives and contribute to t...

International Youth Day 2015: From the CIPE Fellows

CIPE firmly believes in this year's International Youth Day theme: youth civic engagement. Without young people's political, economic, and social participation, no community is truly democratic. And many youth around the world have great ideas that can transform societies for better, but simply la...

Defining Syria’s Future

Creating a Brighter Future for Syrian Youth from CIPE on Vimeo. This International Youth Day, Syrian youth face a bleak situation. During more than four years of conflict in their country, more than 12,000 children have been killed. Approximately 2 million are living as refugees, and 7.5 million ...

Property Rights, the Rule of Law, and Indigenous Rights

What do property rights and rule of law have to do with the rights, health, and well-being of indigenous people? Quite a lot. The worldwide indigenous population is estimated to be between 220 million and 350 million, spread across all inhabitable stretches of the earth. Land and the natural resou...

Rising Corruption in Karachi

Corruption in Pakistan is not a new issue, but as of late it has had a detrimental effect on the country’s economic fortunes and its ability to attract foreign investment. A 2014 report by Transparency International Pakistan found over Rs. 8.5 trillion ($94 billion) was wasted due to corrup...

Talking Trash in Lebanon

More than a week ago, the city of Beirut ceased trash collection when the landfill stopped accepting deliveries. It turns out the city's biggest landfill is, well... full. Since then, the streets of this beautiful capital on the Mediterranean Sea have been filled with piles of garbage, rotting in ...

The Trillion-Dollar Question: Financing the Sustainable Development Goals

After years of consultation, discussion, and debate, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will guide development efforts for the foreseeable future are close to becoming a reality -- meaning a global commitment to end poverty in all its forms everywhere and eliminating extreme poverty...

Protest Movement Electrifies Armenian Civil Society

The Electric Yerevan protests began on June 19, when protesters gathered on the street to express their discontent with the local power company, the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) and its planned 14 percent increase in electricity tariffs from August, the third price raise within the past two ...
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