US rapped over gaps in catching slave-made imports
Thomson Reuters Foundation A drive by the United States to block illegal imports of goods made by forced labour has been hampered by a lack of skilled staff and reliable data, a government watchdog said in a report. Customs and Border Protection has in recent years suspended some investigations into imports it suspected to be […]
UK charity Comic Relief stops sending celebs to Africa after white saviour furore
Thomson Reuters Foundation British charity Comic Relief said on Wednesday that it will stop sending celebrities to Africa to raise funds following criticism that figures like singer Ed Sheeran acted like “white saviours”. The charity won a Norwegian advocacy group’s Rusty Radiator Award for the worst appeal of 2017 for a video about street children […]
Snakes and sewage: Housing troubles grow in South Africa’s Soweto
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the Soweto suburb known as ‘Snake Park’ on how a scheme to rehouse families has left them with homes “susceptible to flooding, cracking and crumbling”…
In the US, three church coalitions in the Deep South partner to urge racial reconciliation — and justice
RNS Leaders of multiracial coalitions of churches in three Southern cities have confessed to being too “comfortable” and committed anew to “work for justice to right past wrongs” and seek racial unity. “As a group of racially, ethnically, and politically diverse church leaders in the Deep South areas of Charleston, South Carolina, Montgomery, Alabama, and […]
Essay: Fifty-five years ago, a cardinal’s ‘special reverence’ for the Jews redeemed ‘Nostra Aetate’
Rabbi A JAMES RUDIN, author of ‘Cushing, Spellman, O’Connor: The Surprising Story of How Three American Cardinals Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations’, reflects on a “game changing” declaration and one American Catholic cardinal’s efforts in support of it…