| To fight trafficking, Indian groups turn to the experts: survivors Posted: 31 Jan 2019 02:48 PM PST ![To fight trafficking, Indian groups turn to the experts: survivors]( "To fight trafficking, Indian groups turn to the experts: survivors") On a hot November morning, Bijoya sits huddled among a group of young girls chatting in the small room of a guesthouse, sometimes breaking into giggles at an inside joke. Seventeen-year-old Bijoya left home early, dressed in a bright green and orange salwar kameez, her hair tied neatly into a ponytail and a backpack hanging from her right shoulder. This is Utthan, a collective of survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
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| When the economy’s bad and your leader’s an autocrat, do you go? Posted: 31 Jan 2019 12:31 PM PST ![When the economy's bad and your leader's an autocrat, do you go?]( "When the economy's bad and your leader's an autocrat, do you go?") The tightly packed audience of well-off and well-educated Turks sat rapt at attention for two hours and forty minutes, without a break, as they heard the pros and cons of joining the growing exodus of their fellow citizens fleeing Turkey. On everybody's mind: Are the uncertainty and unhappiness of life under Turkey's authoritarian and anti-Western president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, combined with shrinking economic prospects and an Islam-oriented retooling of Turkish society, reasons enough to leave their homeland behind? Turkey's so-called brain drain is accelerating, jumping 63.5 percent from 2016 to 2017 alone according to government statistics, and taking with it an educated and financial elite tired of grappling with chronic uncertainty.
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| A leadership style that unites Venezuela Posted: 31 Jan 2019 12:10 PM PST ![A leadership style that unites Venezuela]( "A leadership style that unites Venezuela") Less than a month ago, fewer than 3 percent of Venezuelans knew the name of Juan Guaidó. Dozens of countries now recognize him as president instead of Nicolás Maduro, the man in the presidential palace who still wields power through a corrupt military but does not command legitimacy after a fraudulent reelection last year and the steady ruin of a once-wealthy economy.
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| In frigid heartland, an outpouring of warmth Posted: 31 Jan 2019 11:46 AM PST ![In frigid heartland, an outpouring of warmth]( "In frigid heartland, an outpouring of warmth") Four shirts under a leather jacket has been enough to keep Vernell Jones, a young Chicago man, warm through most of the winter – but not this week. As Mr. Jones sits slumped in a chair at the Pacific Garden Mission, a homeless shelter in Chicago's South Loop, he says the frigid weather finally forced him inside.
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