Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Billboard nominations revealed and NF tops charts…
American rapper NF has topped both the Christian and mainstream hip-hop charts in the US with ‘Let You Down’. Listen to this week’s TCM update…
SNAPSHOT: ROSSBEIGH STRAND, IRELAND
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Rescued from slavery, Indian workers unite to stop bonded labour
Thomson Reuters Foundation Indians rescued from slavery are coming together to free others from bonded labour in brick kilns, rice mills and factories throughout the southern state of Tamil Nadu. About 500,000 labourers in 11 industries in Tamil Nadu are trapped in debt bondage, in which people must work to repay debts to employers and […]
Documentary charting one female police officer’s efforts to stop sexual abuse in DRC wins human rights award
A documentary highlighting the courage of a female police officer as she fights against sexual abuse in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo has won the SIGNIS-WACC Human Rights Award 2017. Still from Maman Colonelle. It was announced this week that the feature length film, Maman Colonelle, directed by Congolese man Dieudo Hamadi, has won […]
TECHNOLOGY: ACCESS ALL AREAS? USING DATA TO HELP THE DISABLED NAVIGATE CITIES
SOPHIE DAVIES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how technology is being harnessed to help disabled people access city facilities…
Sri Lankan groups call on Facebook to block religious hate speech
World Watch Monitor Civil society groups in Sri Lanka have asked Facebook to do more to prevent hate speech, including comments that discriminate on religious lines, following recent anti-Muslim riots. “There was a post in the Sinhala [Sri Lanka’s largest ethnic group] language on Facebook for six days, which mentioned ‘killing all Muslims, without sparing […]
ESSAY: REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF THE WARSAW GHETTO ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UPRISING
US academic and author SAMANTHA BASKIND, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says while the Warsaw Ghetto uprising provides something of a “small salve” for the wounds of the Holocaust, it’s important to also remember the stories of “lost innocence and mercilessness”…
OPEN BOOK: II THESSALONIANS – AVOID THOSE WALKING “OUT OF STEP”
BRUCE C WEARNE reflects on Paul’s advice to the church in Thessalonica to “keep their distance” from the distractions of outsiders…
Colombians flee homes amid fresh violence, forced lockdown by rebels
Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of Colombians have fled their homes amid fresh clashes among armed rebels and a lockdown on transport and trade in the volatile northeast Catatumbo region, the Organization of American States and aid agencies said on Wednesday. The violence has uprooted at least 1,000 families in Catatumbo seeking to escape the crossfire […]