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Truly global insight where current affairs meet development, health, planet. Navigating the media, disrupting North-centric views. By @anita_makri

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.@WorldHungerDay is May 28 and this year’s theme is “Thriving Mothers. Thriving World.” Want to hear from @HungerProject CEO Tim Prewitt and THP-Malawi Country Manager Grace Chikowi, a trained nutritionist? 🌐
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Plan to attend their webinar on Thursday, March 21 at 10:30 AM Eastern Time 🗓️ Register in advance here us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Tnx @anita_makri @worldwiseview for including my take on the role of health in #COP28 Next year, we must not just be a series of side events, but be inside the negotiations, because the health of both planet & its people are at stake! #PlanetaryHealth🌏 worldwise.substack.com/p/hea… – at Cape Town, South Africa
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Beautiful to see the creative vision of these three artists helping them draw attention to the fight for equality 🌐 @boell_gender @caroline__kimeu @ConstanceMlrt @zbilginsoy @guardian #globaldev #feminist #art #Kenya #Brazil #Turkey
Isabel Choat (@isabelchoat) profile pictureIsabel Choat@isabelchoat5 Dec 2023
Love this new collection of graphic short stories by feminist artists published by @boell_gender Feminism in pictures: illustrated stories of women’s rights around the world theguardian.com/global-devel…
Feminism in pictures: illustrated stories of women’s rights around the world

Feminism in pictures: illustrated stories of women’s rights around the world

Three female artists, from Kenya, Brazil and Turkey, describe how their creative vision helped them draw attention to the fight for equality

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"#Guyana has denounced the referendum as pretext to annex the land. It had appealed to @CIJ_ICJ, @UN's top court, which on Friday ordered #Venezuela not to take any action to change the status quo until the panel can rule on the two countries’ competing claims"
Dánica Coto (@danicacoto) profile pictureDánica Coto@danicacoto6 Dec 2023
Venezuela's president directs country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own: apnews.com/article/venezuela…
Maduro orders the 'immediate' exploitation of oil, gas and mines in Guyana's Essequibo

Maduro orders the 'immediate' exploitation of oil, gas and mines in Guyana's Essequibo

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is asking the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger...

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Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack. apne.ws/XjWp6R7

Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack

A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers.

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"The question still remains whether Union Carbide & Dow Chemical will ever compensate newer victims of the disaster as demanded by survivors & advocacy groups" A toxic chemical used in pesticides burst from a local factory decades ago. #Bhopal's people are still paying for it 🌐
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@Diplomat_APAC10 Dec 2023
Nearly 40 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster, scores of victims still suffer with little recourse in Bhopal, India. buff.ly/46EHliE
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Why a performing arts center was built in Africa’s largest refugee camp devex.com/news/why-a-perform… #Uganda #refugees #withrefugees

Why a performing arts center was built in Africa’s largest refugee camp

Project coordinators hope that the first state-of-the-art performance center in a refugee camp will help to provide residents with "a life that is full of enjoyment and create a holistic approach to...

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ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America. My report on the referendum in Venezuela on the Essequibo region and on @exxonmobil’s divide and conquer strategy in South America: peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/…
ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America : Peoples Dispatch

ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America : Peoples Dispatch

It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict...

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Woody biomass has been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuels, but reality is different. Read ME's 2-part series exposing the greenwashing side of woody biomass: Part 1: mekongeye.com/2023/11/19/vie… Part 2: mekongeye.com/2023/11/19/aca… Story: Vo Kieu Bao Uyen Visuals: Thanh Nguyen
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2023 will be Earth’s hottest year in human history, WMO report confirms - ⁦@ssdance⁩ washingtonpost.com/weather/2…

This year will be Earth’s hottest in human history, report confirms

This year will break a record set in 2016, underscoring that the world is closer than ever to the global warming thresholds global leaders are seeking to avoid.

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In Nairobi, skateboarding provides an alternative space where consumption is not a prerequisite for entry. africasacountry.com/2023/11/…

Nairobi’s third places

In Nairobi, skateboarding provides an alternative space where consumption is not a prerequisite for entry.

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"The mixture of the extreme poverty in the regions where the fruit grows and the architecture of the tree itself — it rises tall and thin — means that the harvesters who scamper up the stalks to pick it are often young children." @washingtonpost ow.ly/8Bsh50Q9vIM

Brazil reckons with dark side of açaí: Rampant, dangerous child labor

After a Washington Post report drew international attention, authorities are investigating the industry. They’ve documented paralysis, spinal and skeletal injuries and venomous snake bites.

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View from my balcony in September vs November. Wrote about why this happens and why we’re not able to stop it. @WIRED #DelhiSmog wired.com/story/delhi-smog-a…
Image from Sushmita Pathak (@sushmitza)
Image from Sushmita Pathak (@sushmitza)
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What does the four-day pause in fighting in Gaza mean for aid efforts into the enclave, where 70% of people have been forced from their homes, and many are on the brink of starvation? Mourad Hijazi reports for @newhumanitarian. Read here ⬇️ buff.ly/40OR4BA
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How Europe’s largest wildfire this summer in Greece got blamed on people on the move - when climate disinformation and misinformation fuses with climate change and migration - our piece with @g_christides & 📷 Alexandros Avramidis. theguardian.com/global-devel…
‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes

‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes

In August, wildfires in Evros killed a group of people, including children, passing along a well-trodden migration route. Locals and politicians made the victims scapegoats for the disaster

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Musk’s #Starlink has drawn the interest of many in the #Amazon region for whom "the internet is a tool that can create opportunities in telemedicine, distance education, politics, business, leisure, & the fight against human rights abuses..."🇧🇷 ✍️ @DuchiadeAndre @CatarinaBarbosa
Eliane Brum (@brumelianebrum) profile pictureEliane Brum@brumelianebrum6 Nov 2023
Starlink: ‘Elon Musk’s internet’ brings euphoria and fear to the Amazon by @sumaumajournal sumauma.com/en/starlink-a-in…
Starlink: ‘Elon Musk’s internet’ brings euphoria and fear to the Amazon - SUMAÚMA

Starlink: ‘Elon Musk’s internet’ brings euphoria and fear to the Amazon - SUMAÚMA

Indigenous peoples and traditional communities enjoy the advantages of the technology that is making rapid inroads into the region, while trying to tighten security and raise awareness about the...

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Fishers & local people who depend on #Venezuela's lake Maracaibo for their livelihoods are using rakes, their own hands & even human and animal hair to clean up the damage from inadequate waste management & neglect of oil industrial infrastructure 🇻🇪 ✍️@camillerodrmont @guardian
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@GdnDevelopment26 Oct 2023
‘It’s not perfect – but it’s not dead’: the mission to save Lake Maracaibo – a photo essay theguardian.com/global-devel…
‘It’s not perfect – but it’s not dead’: the mission to save Lake Maracaibo – a photo essay

‘It’s not perfect – but it’s not dead’: the mission to save Lake Maracaibo – a photo essay

The lake in the heart of Venezuela’s oil territory is coated with slimy crude and neon green algae. Now fishers, scientists, local people and even human hair are being deployed to clean it up

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grist@grist14 Nov 2023
Indigenous peoples bear both the weight of climate change’s impacts and carry knowledge that may help lessen its burden, according to the new National Climate Assessment published Tuesday grist.org/indigenous/us-clim…
New US climate report says land theft and colonization amplify the climate crisis for Indigenous...

New US climate report says land theft and colonization amplify the climate crisis for Indigenous...

The report concludes that Indigenous self-determination is a key climate solution — if the federal government can get behind it.

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#Africa’s lack of weather stations is costing lives US + EU (population: 1.1 billion) Weather stations: 636 Africa (population 1.2 billion) Weather stations: 37 africanarguments.org/2023/11…
Without warning: Africa's lack of weather stations is costing lives | African Arguments

Without warning: Africa's lack of weather stations is costing lives | African Arguments

A scarcity of weather stations in Africa means millions cannot be alerted about impending extreme weather events. 

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