POSTCARDS: ICELAND HARNESSES HOT SPRINGS TO POWER YEAR-ROUND FARMING
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how geothermal energy, which makes up a quarter of Iceland’s electricity, has helped boost the year-round availability of fresh food…
Malaysia releases four Finnish Christians
World Watch Monitor The four Finnish nationals who were arrested in Malaysia last week for distributing Christian literature, were released and returned home on Wednesday, 28th November, The Associated Press reports. The four – two men and two women aged between 27 and 60 – were deported on Tuesday, 27th November, AP said. The group was […]
Global chocolate supply chain tainted by abuses in Brazil – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation The global chocolate supply chain is tainted by the use of cocoa from Brazilian farms where human rights violations are common, a report released Friday said. Among the abuses detailed are farmers forced to work off debts to landowners or in degrading conditions, as well as thousands of instances of child labour. […]
ESSAY: ICE’S WAR ON CHRISTMAS
US Baptist minister and author JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes about the impact of the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy…
Domestic violence rates fall in parts of Latin America – UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Domestic violence against women may have declined over the past 20 years in seven countries in the Americas, though the problem remains rife and undermines development in the region, the Pan-American Health Organization said last week. Domestic violence, including physical and sexual abuse against women, carried out by former or current boyfriends […]
US workers want employers to step up social impact – survey
Thomson Reuters Foundation A growing number of US workers want their employers to tackle social issues, according to new research showing many employees think companies fail to do enough for community or environmental causes. Expectations that employers be socially involved are strongest among women, people in their 20s and 30s and higher income earners, said […]
Quick facts: Ten facts to mark the 30th World AIDS Day
Thomson Reuters Foundation The global campaign to end AIDS has made significant strides but the epidemic remains one of the world’s leading public health challenges, affecting almost 37 million people. Campaigners say one of the biggest challenges in the fight to end AIDS is encouraging people to get tested and making them aware of treatment […]
US Southern Baptist seminary, in #MeToo age, appoints ‘women’s support coordinator’
Louisville, Kentucky, USRNS Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has appointed its first “women’s support coordinator” to address any gender-related “difficulties or challenges” that women encounter on its campus. “In our own internal review, we determined it was not fully supportive of women to require any woman to have to describe what could be very intimate matters […]