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Journalist property rights, climate, gender. Ex-Reuters, Bloomberg, FT. IWMF grantee. SOPA awardee. Opinions my own📚🏃🏽‍♀️🧘🏼‍♂️

Bangkok, Thailand
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  1. 7 hours ago

    forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control. The gunmen escorted them to their homes and told them not to return to their jobs. Instead, they explained that male relatives could take their place.

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    13 hours ago

    In ,women who attend university told me today that they were sent home by the Taliban when they tried to enter their university.Other women who hold office jobs tell me they were sent home too & told they would be replaced by men.This is happening in Herat NOW!

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    14 hours ago

    The Afghans forced to leave their homes, fleeing violence & persecution, do not want to become refugees. They do not want to beg for asylum, trapped in a camp on a border somewhere. They lived dignified lives and wanted to remain in their homes & communities

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    Aug 13

    No better time to remember what happened when Indian turned against Indian

    1947 :: Mass Migration During Partition of India
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  5. 12 hours ago

    Rewrite it just enough to avoid copyright infringement - is sadly the strategy of many small publications. But this is just shameful: The Co-Founder Of The Fact-Checking Site Was Writing Plagiarized Articles Under A Fake Name

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  6. 12 hours ago

    What happens when an entire nation becomes uninhabitable because of ? By some estimates, Tuvaluans will be forced, by water scarcity and rising sea levels, to migrate elsewhere in the next 50 years. This mass exodus is already happening.

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  7. 13 hours ago

    : We like the poor to fight our wars on the battlefield and the sporting arena but do not particularly care to lessen the risks of remaining in poverty. May be there is no genuine interest in creating a level playing field of opportunities

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  8. Aug 13

    Here we go

    All girls over the age of 15 and widows younger than 40 should be married to the insurgent fighters, a local Taliban leader told the congregation at Friday prayers...One of those present was later summoned and ordered to hand over his 15-year-old daughter
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    Aug 11

    This tweet violated Twitter rules apparently And why is that ? For tweeting my column on Hindu radicalisation?

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  10. Aug 13

    In contemporary narratives, she doesn’t get away with it - or not always. For Karen has only words as weapons, and those words no longer hold as much power; she must turn, instead, to people with real power to enforce her wishes, and they resist.

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    Aug 10

    "Last week I was a journalist. Today I can’t write under my own name..My whole life has been obliterated in days. I’m not safe because I’m a 22-year-old woman. and because I'm a journalist" An Afghan reporter describes her escape from Taliban:

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    Aug 12

    Thailand’s Covid-19 infection numbers are likely much higher than those being reported by the government, a senior advisor to the Ministry of Public Health told Thai Enquirer.

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    Aug 12

    Lmfaoo my nail salon is NOT playing with y’all 😂

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  14. Aug 12

    As the Pentagon moves to evacuate the Embassy and U.S. citizens in , people gloomily revived a comparison they wanted to avoid: the fall of Saigon in 1975, when Americans at the U.S. Embassy were evacuated from a rooftop by helicopter.

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    Aug 12

    It's interesting for me to learn that Google is a corporate sponsor of . With Google having a deep history of mishandling sexual harassment complaints, I'm curious as to how many Googlers have reached out to Time's Up for support and what the response has been.

    You can start by resigning, . So too should any employees engaged in silencing & diminishing survivors. No trust can be built from this place. should take a cold hard look at their benefactors and ask themselves if the real cost is worth the support.
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    Aug 12

    Escape to Freedom: The city's population was 7,394,700 at the end of June, down 87,100, or 1.2%, from a year ago, according to a provisional estimate released by the Census and Statistics Dept. Hong Kong's population outflow accelerates amid crackdown

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  17. Aug 12

    From to to , free online courses on teach the basics to anyone with a couple of hours to spare. But do they get you to think critically about AI and its use?

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  18. Aug 12

    “The existence of volunteer groups shows how the government has failed, so people have to help each other”: volunteers provide lifeline to elderly, sick cut off by pandemic

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    Aug 12

    | First generation learners defied the odds to enter India’s top institutes, only to find themselves locked out of learning during a pandemic. reports.

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    Aug 12

    Well, this is brazen

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