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Cost-sharing is a “shift of the burden of higher education costs from being totally borne by the government or the taxpayer, to being shared with parents and students”

This raises the  question, to what extent can this cost-sharing policy preserve equity in enrollment and improve the quality of higher education in Morocco? The obvious answer is that this policy is causing more harm to Moroccan higher education.

"We have a culture of silenc

"Most women won't share their stories because they are afraid of what will happen to them, what will happen to their parents."

The shame runs so deep that girls are taught to never look at or touch their genitals, and most of them have never been to a gynecologist

don't even know they have been mutilated until they attempt to have sex, at which time they often need to be cut open again to consummate a marriage.

I was 6 and my sister was 3 at the time.

Dukureh has been the only U.S.-based survivor to speak up so publicly against FGM

We were there three months. We ate out of one shared bowl.

We went into a home, and immediately women grabbed and blindfolded us and tied us to some thick bushes.

There was loud drumming and older women were singing songs, which I was too young to understand.

. I saw an old woman holding a knife so sharp I could see the drops of blood sliding down the edge.

it is common practice to circumcise infant

I can still feel the weight of her today

t. What the cutter does is hold on to your clitoris to make sure she gets that and scrapes everything else that comes along with it — all of the labia,

we were left to bleed into little dirt holes for hours.

Three other women were holding down my arms and legs, and another was sitting right on my chest, covering my mouth

receive our "treatment

They took dried leaves and placed them on the wound and that would stay on for two to three days

We were also taught, every day, that if we ever talked about this, if we even mentioned it, they would kill us.

I learned two of them later died in childbirth, which was too difficult for them because of FGM. They bled to death.

h the rite of passage

This is who we are."

She cannot have kids as a result of her FGM.

I will never take them back. My family will never see them.

In the joint statement issued by China and Russia, the main message is that China-Russia relations have reached a new stage of comprehensive strategic partnership and this will help increase both countries’ international status and influence, thus contributing to a more just international order

China secures a long-term (30 years) provision of natural gas from Russia and Russia can reduce its dependence on the European markets as well as strengthen Russia’s position against Western sanctions

Russia is now moving closer to China’s side with regard to the territorial disputes between China and Japan

China and Russia last week vetoed a draft UN resolution to send Syria to the International Criminal Court for war crimes. China and Russia had vetoed three previous UNSC resolutions condemning Syria

China and Russia signed a huge natural gas deal that is worth about $400 billion.

China and Russia will deepen cooperation under the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building in Asia (CICA), a new security framework in Asia-Pacific that conveniently excludes the U.S. and Japan.

, the main trigger is the recent Ukraine crisis that has seriously damaged Russia-West relations

mutual strategic needs as both China and Russia want to create a multipolar world that is not dominated by the U.S., particularly as China faces threats from the US-led alliance in Asia

China’s chance of winning maritime disputes with Japan partly depends on maintaining a good relationship with Russia

the NATO expansion is a serious threat to Russia’s national security and as such Russia has to fight back

new China-Russia alliance is now emerging and this will eventually lead to a multi-polar world order.

problems in China-Russia relations such as historical mistrust, the lack of a common threat, and conflicting interests in Central Asia

he most important factor determining whether China and Russia should form an alliance is whether the two countries have shared strategic interests and how long such shared strategic interests can last

China nor Russia could become a member of the Western bloc led by the U.S. because other allies of the U.S. would feel threatened by China and Russia

thus Russia has no better alternative to siding with China

, China’s number two position in the world means that China will not be supported by the U.S. with regard to most international affairs issues

Yan also refutes the argument that a China-Russia alliance against the U.S. would lead to another cold war.

ould be potentially high costs of such an alliance due to common problems such as fears of abandonment and entrapment

U.S. militarily threatens both China and Russia at the same time

Russia is unwilling to be China’s junior partner in the relationship

Russia wants to maintain good relations with all Asian states and thus will not side with China when it comes to territorial disputes between China and Japan

China-Russia alliance is unrealistic and a strategic partnership is more flexible and better for China.

seems that in the near future a formal alliance between China and Russia will not happen due to a variety of reasons.

China could be dragged into an unnecessary war by Russia

, a formal alliance will not occur

and Algeria had calling for output cuts of as much as 2 million bpd.

The wealthy Gulf states have made clear they are ready to ride out the weak prices that have hurt the likes of Venezuela and Iran

hoped that lower prices would help drive some of the higher-cost U.S. shale oil production out of the market.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries accounts for a third of global oil output.

A price war might make some future U.S. shale oil projects uncompetitive due to high production costs, easing competitive pressures on OPEC in the longer term.

"We interpret this as Saudi Arabia selling the idea that oil prices in the short term need to go lower, with a floor set at $60 per barrel, in order to have more stability in years ahead at $80 plus," said Olivier Jakob from Petromatrix consultancy.

ugoslavia was an independent and relatively prosperous country. With no Soviet Union after 1991, Yugoslavia was vulnerable to the powerful imperialist countries in Western Europe and the United States, which provoked and exacerbated disputes among the various Yugoslav peoples

NATO’s pattern for the destruction of Libya and Syria — and also of Iraq and Afghanistan, with variations

cialism in Yugoslavia produced artists and intellectuals, free health care, zero unemployment, free education, excellent public transportation and advanced industrial and agricultural developmen

After the destruction of Milosevic and his party, neoliberal forces in Serbia and the other republics privatized the health care system, sold off the mines, and closed automobile, petroleum and other industries. Now Bosnia has an unemployment rate of 43 percent, Croatia’s is 19 percent, and tiny Kosovo’s is 45 percent. Kosovo hosts the largest U.S. military base in the Balkans, Camp Bondsteel, which protects Kosovo’s criminal government and oversees NATO control in the Balkans.

n the U.S. in 1999-2001, the International Action Center and Workers World Party played a leading role among those who stood firm against expanding NATO’s mayhem and slaughter in Yugoslavia.

I don't want any government or industry to censor what I can and cannot say to my community in my attempt to ethically inform them

GREENE: Let me just make sure I understand this because it seems like a very important point - you're saying the New York Post, they are journalists; they made the decision on their own. You might say that it was a bad decision, but it was a news organization, a publisher, so to speak, making a decision about what to publish. Twitter, in the eyes of many of us, you know, is a platform for us to share. And that's a different thing for them to censor you or I or other people in terms of what we want to share or not.

Yeah, I would look at it as if the printing press operators decided that they wanted to censor the New York Post, right? That's if we view Twitter as a platform. Printing press operators wouldn't shape a newspaper

these organizations are really sophisticated with their propaganda, and this is just one video of many different types of strategies that they employ.

that by allowing this video to be available, it is helping ISIS - these militants - spread their propaganda

we were to have a technology company censoring images from the Vietnam War, think of the iconic images that would be censored and blanked.

Viewing a video, I feel like you need to make that decision. You need to make that decision. The government shouldn't make that decision for you. A tech company shouldn't make it for you.

these are the images that changed the tone, the country, the direction of that war

This one here is not the government censoring. This is a tech company that is censoring. Now, again, it's their platform. It's their rules. But it is something to be aware o