Disney’s Jungle Cruise ride to remove “negative depictions”
Los Angeles, USReuters The Jungle Cruise ride at Disney’s theme parks in California and Florida is getting a makeover to remove what the company called “negative depictions” of some cultures. Disney said on Monday that the river boat attraction would be updated to “reflect and value the diversity of the world around us”. Walt Disney […]
“Resilient recovery”: Cities link pandemic, climate adaptation responses
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation Cities across the globe pledged this week to use their post-pandemic recovery plans to bolster ways to adapt to the growing risks posed by climate change. The 1000 Cities Adapt Now initiative, launched by several non-governmental organizations and a UN agency, will initially start operating in 100 urban areas but […]
‘Young’ or ‘one’?
Recently Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a change to our anthem, from ‘young’ to ‘one’. PICTURE: Mitchell Luo/Unsplash When something has been around for a while, a change can at first seem grating. ‘Why do we have to do that?’ It’s quite normal to respond to change with resistance. But if we can let the […]
Changing behaviour: Men enlisted to fight ‘tradition’ of gender violence in Cambodia
MATT BLOMBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts to tackle gender-based violence in Cambodia…
Native Americans get voice in how to handle cases of missing, murdered
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USThomson Reuters Foundation For nearly two years, Aubrey Dameron, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, has been missing. Last seen in March 2019, Dameron disappeared while leaving her mother’s rural home early in the morning. Her family has been following various leads, including draining a pond near her home, but is […]
Essay: The Catholic Church’s moral reckoning on Jews and the Holocaust
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KEN JACOBSON, deputy national director of the Anti-Defamation League in the US, looks at how the attitude of the Catholic Church towards Jews has been transformed…