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Causes: Arts & Culture, Human Services, Television
Mission: Providing objectively produced international news stories to educate american public on international subjects of interest or beneficial to public.
Programs: Produced for national us broadcast on the public television flagship news program pbs newshour , in-depth, international field reports:1) reported from senegal, on the epidemic of forced child begging with the countrys traditional koranic school system. Emmy nominated report. 2) reported from indonesia, a series of three stories on the country: assessing the presidential elections and the process of democracy in the country; investigating the rise of sharia law in war-and-tsunami-torn aceh province; and marking the 10th anniversary of the tsunami with a look at the impressive physical and societal reconstruction in the region. 3) reported from ukraine, examining how the war in the east is impacting society throughout the rest of the country, in particular the western region where churches affiliated with the orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate are being forcibly taken over and re-affiliated with a pro-nationalist breakaway orthodox church.