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Serbia: Newsline
A young Roma woman in Serbia overcomes poverty and discrimination
BELGRADE, Serbia, 21 November 2006 – Ljiljana Ilic, 28, is a Roma woman who has risen above the odds, conquering social, economic and cultural barriers to earn both a college and a graduate degree. But reaching her goal was far from easy.
UN Administered Province of Kosovo: Community alliances keep girls in school
PRISTINA, United Nations Administered Province of Kosovo, 22 November 2005 – Six years after the end of the conflict here – in which bombs turned thousands of residents into refugees and reduced much of the landscape to rubble – schools are recovering with the help of an innovative parent-teacher alliance.
