‘La Lista’ cuestiona el uso de las redes sociales para denunciar abusos sexuales

Sarah Sidki | Madrid La periodista y escritora británica Yomi Adegoke, una de las voces jóvenes más laureadas en el Reino Unido, presenta en España su última novela, ‘La Lista’ (AdN), en la que cuestiona el uso de las redes sociales como método de denuncia anónima ante casos … Continue reading ‘La Lista’ cuestiona el uso de las redes sociales para denunciar abusos sexuales

You don’t have to admit there’s a climate crisis to be fighting climate change

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Although many Americans and policy wonks see climate change as the major existential issue of our time, it ends up feeling like a relatively small piece of the American political conversation, which is more focused on the … Continue reading You don’t have to admit there’s a climate crisis to be fighting climate change

The Malawi WhatsApp group that saved women trafficked to Oman

By Florence Phiri in Lilongwe & Tamasin Ford in London, BBC Africa Eye BBC Africa Eye investigates how a WhatsApp group helped save more than 50 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions. Warning: Some people may … Continue reading The Malawi WhatsApp group that saved women trafficked to Oman

Una población contra la violencia sexual

Historia de Sonia Tessa para Página 12 en MSN Berenice Gonzálvez tenía 23 años. Tenía un hijo de 4. Vivía en Victoria, una ciudad de 40 mil habitantes separada (y unida) por el río Paraná con Rosario. El jueves 25 … Continue reading Una población contra la violencia sexual

Nobody I’ve ever been locked up with in a psychiatric hospital felt ‘proud’ of their illnesses

By Eleanor de Jong It’s great mental health is now openly discussed but the sickest people I’ve ever known – myself included – have had almost no part in it In the 12 years since I was diagnosed as manic … Continue reading Nobody I’ve ever been locked up with in a psychiatric hospital felt ‘proud’ of their illnesses

Pakistan sends back hundreds of Afghan refugees to face Taliban repression

About 250,000 Afghan asylum seekers have arrived in Pakistan since August 2021, but a migrant crackdown has left many of them in fear of being jailed or deported Zofeen T Ebrahim in Karachi | 10 jan. 2023 More than 600 Afghans have been deported from Pakistan in the past three days, and hundreds more face expulsion in a renewed crackdown on migrants. On Saturday, 302 people were sent back to Afghanistan from Sindh province and 303 on Monday, including 63 women and 71 children. A further 800 people are expected to be deported in the coming days. About 250,000 Afghans have arrived in Pakistan since the Taliban seized power in August 2021. Last summer, authorities … Continue reading Pakistan sends back hundreds of Afghan refugees to face Taliban repression

How agriculture hastens species extinction

BY BRIT MCCANDLESS FARMER JANUARY 1, 2023 This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known species disappear. The last mass extinction was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Now scientists think humans are hastening another mass annihilation of plants and animals. Among the causes this time are pollution, habitat destruction, over-exploitation of resources, and climate change. Mexican ecologist Gerardo Ceballos is among the world’s leading scientists on extinction. He laid out for us … Continue reading How agriculture hastens species extinction

Amelia Tiganus: La explotación de las mujeres se ha convertido en una multinacional

Cristina Bazán | Guayaquil «Soy formadora. Soy superviviente y, sobre todo, testigo directo del sistema prostitucional». Así es como se describe Amelia Tiganus (Galati, Rumanía, 1984) en el inicio de su libro «La revuelta de las putas» que ha publicado en España y en el que, a través de su historia, hace una radiografía de la prostitución, una forma de explotación que, asegura, «se ha convertido en una multinacional». «La explotación del cuerpo de las mujeres y de las niñas, porque cada vez hay más niñas y de hecho la media de entrada al sistema de prostitución es de 13 años, se ha convertido en una multinacional. Y hay que analizar … Continue reading Amelia Tiganus: La explotación de las mujeres se ha convertido en una multinacional

The secrets shared by Afghan women

“My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream.” By Lyse Doucet and Zarghuna Kargar | BBC News | 11 Dec. 2022 At times, voices of Afghan women rise from the streets of Kabul and other cities in small, loud, protests. Often, they ring out in speeches by women now far away, outside Afghanistan. But mostly, their thoughts are only expressed quietly, in safe places. Or they fester in their heads as they try to reconcile their lives with the increasingly rigid rules of the Taliban government. … Continue reading The secrets shared by Afghan women