In lockdown Bolivia, calls from abused girls flood hotline
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Since the coronavirus lockdown began in Bolivia, Brisa De Angulo’s charity for sexually abused children has received hundreds of telephone calls from girls trapped in homes with their abusers, but one desperate plea stands out. A 10-year-old pregnant girl, gang-raped by two cousins in her home, had gone into labor. She […]
Western brands demand big discounts from Bangladesh factories
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Western clothing brands that agreed not to cancel orders due to the coronavirus epidemic are demanding price cuts of up to 50 per cent, Bangladeshi manufacturers said on Friday, heaping economic pain on a country already reeling from the crisis. Millions of Bangladeshi households depend on the garment sector, which has […]
British people hail cleaner air and community spirit under lockdown
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Less than 10 per cent of British people want to go back to normal after lockdown, with most seeing upsides from breathing cleaner air to greater sense of community spirit, according to a survey released on Friday. More than half those questioned said air quality had improved as road traffic levels […]
No title, no problem: Land rights with digital maps, social media
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how new technologies are being employed in the fight for land rights for those without formal documentation…
At least 300,000 Africans expected to die in pandemic: UN agency
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The COVID-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the UN Economic Commission for Africa said on Friday, calling for a $US100 billion safety net for the continent. Africa’s 54 countries have so far reported fewer than 20,000 confirmed cases of the disease, […]
China’s revised COVID figures are a bid to ‘leave no case undocumented’ – WHO; latest on worldwide spread
Reuters A sharp upward revision in China’s coronavirus death toll on Friday was “an attempt to leave no case undocumented” after medical services in Wuhan were overwhelmed at the start of the outbreak, the World Health Organization said. Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the […]