UN says women and babies at risk in Yemen as funds crunch forces clinics to shut
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation The United Nations warned on Thursday that more than half its reproductive health facilities in war-hit Yemen would close by the end of this month, putting the lives of women and babies at risk, unless it got more funding. The UN Population Fund said it had closed 100 facilities at the end […]
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ON THE SCREEN: ‘LITTLE WOMEN’ GETS AN UPLIFTING CONTEMPORARY REMAKE
DAVID ADAMS watches the latest ‘Little Women’ remake…
Six months after cyclones, Pope spotlights Mozambique’s needs
Johannesberg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Pope Francis set off for Mozambique on Wednesday, six months after the poor southern African nation was struck by the worst two cyclones in its history, which flooded villages, flattened a major port city and killed more than 600 people. Protection of the environment is expected to be a key […]
News coverage of Muslims is more negative than of other minority groups, says report
RNS A new study of how the media covers minorities in the United States finds that depictions of Muslims in the news remain by far the most frequent and the most negative. “Muslims are just way down there in comparison to the other groups,” said Erik Bleich, director of the Media Portrayals of Minorities Project […]
Malaysia’s human trafficking court nets few scalps in first year
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation A Malaysian court that promised justice for victims of human trafficking made eight convictions in its inaugural year despite the launch of hundreds of investigations in recent years, data obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed. Malaysia is a magnet for traffickers due to its heavy reliance on foreign […]
BORDER WARS: DISPUTE OVER GEORGIAN MONASTERY SPOTLIGHTS POST-SOVIET TROUBLES
UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Rome synod aims to bolster identity of Ukrainian Greek Catholics amid conflict
Vatican CityRNS Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church are meeting at the Vatican for a synod aimed at strengthening the Byzantine Rite church’s ties with Rome while maintaining its identity in the ongoing tug of war between East and West. Ukrainian Greek Catholics, who make up the world’s largest Eastern church, are in full […]
ESSAY: HOW AMERICAN CHRISTIAN MEDIA PROMOTED CHARITY ABROAD
In an article first published on The Conversation HEATHER D CURTIS, associate professor of religion at Tufts University in the US, looks at how Christian media in the US – in particular the Christian Herald, shaped the country’s responses to international humanitarian crises…
POSTCARDS: ON THE FRONTLINES OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE WORLD’S NORTHERNMOST TOWN
ALEX FRASER, of Reuters, reports from Longyearbyen in Svalbard in Norway…