Children from low-income and rural families are most likely to miss out on pre-primary education. Private pre-primary schools are concentrated in urban areas with higher-income families, where schools are more easily guaranteed adequate income. In 2019, the adjusted net attendance rate in schooling of 5-year-olds in Uganda was more than 17 percent higher for children in urban areas than in rural areas, and 49 percent higher for those in the richest quintile than those in the lowest-income
The Cuban dictatorship has not in any way hidden its support for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. In fact, it has been proud of its support with Cuban mercenaries being sent to fight for Russia. Although the international community won't call out the communist Castro regime for its shameless support of Russian aggression, human rights activists
By Cristhian Manuel Jiménez, Caribbean Campaigner at Amnesty International On 6 November, the UN Human Rights Council will conduct its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Cuba, providing an important opportunity to address the state of human rights in the country. This process enables Cuba’s civil society, long ignored by the government, to be heard and for UN Member States to express their concerns and recommendations to the authorities. Ahead of this review, activists and relatives of prisoners
More than two years since massive protests broke out all over Cuba on July 11, 2021, hundreds of political prisoners from those demonstrations are being abused by the communist Castro dictatorship. Beatings, lack of food, and denial of medical care are just some of the examples of inhumane treatment these protesters are experience in Castro
Mainstream and local news have fallen all over themselves covering the Cuban "entrepreneurs" visiting Miami. What none of that media has investigated, however, is their ties to the communist Castro dictatorship. According to independent journalists who have gone to the trouble of investigating the individuals involved, the organized visit by these so-called small business owners