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- Annie Banerji and Sarah Shearman
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Pervasive abuse of women on social media is driving female leaders off the internet and, in some cases, out of a job, a conference heard on Thursday.
Two years after the global #MeToo movement began with women finding strength in numbers by sharing
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- ZOE TABARY
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
From tackling diseases to improving transport, technology like data and artificial intelligence has unleashed a wave of opportunities, but those still exclude society's most vulnerable citizens, according to a leading human rights researcher.
The "digitisation of information" impacts every sector in society but
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- UMBERTO BACCHI and ZOE TABARY
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Personal data reveals a slew of secrets about friends and family so regulators should stop fixating on individual privacy and safeguard society instead, data experts said on Thursday.
From friends' shopping habits to family health, one person's data can shed light on a
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- ROBERT BIRSEL
Singapore
Reuters
Extreme floods in Venice, fires in Australia and even an outbreak of plague in China have been attributed to climate change this week, while researchers have warned that global warming could saddle future generations with life-long illness.
Venice declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after
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- PHILIP PULLELLA
Vatican City
Reuters
Pope Francis on Thursday named the Vatican's new economy minister to succeed Cardinal George Pell, who is appealing a conviction in his native Australia for sexually assaulting two teenaged choir boys.
The post, formally known as Prefect for the Secretariat of the Economy, has
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- EMMA BATHA
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
World leaders must take a tougher line on China's use of high-tech surveillance to monitor and crackdown on its ethnic minorities, a Uighur activist urged on Thursday, after his mother was detained and then imprisoned.
More than one million Uighurs and other Muslims
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- KIERAN GUILBERT
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
World leaders should take aim at modern slavery in corporate supply chains at a global summit next year, labour rights activists said on Wednesday, calling for laws to compel companies to tackle worker exploitation in their operations.
Speaking at the Thomson Reuters Foundation's
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- CAM WANT
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- AYSHA KHAN
Last month, Hope Covenant Church opened the first homeless shelter in Chicago’s affluent suburban Village of Orland Park in more than three decades.
With temperatures dipping down near the single digits, the seasonal shelter has housed between 15 and 50 people one night every week, including a
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- ROLI SRIVASTAVA
Mumbai, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
A film about a boy trafficked to work in a carpet factory is to be screened in remote Indian villages to raise awareness about child slavery among families often targeted by human traffickers.
Due to be released on Thursday, Jhalki tracks a
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- NITA BHALLA
Nairobi, Kenya
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Countries need about $US264 billion - the equivalent cost of 110 military aircraft - to end maternal deaths, gender based violence, child marriage, and provide family planning to all women by 2030, said a United Nations study.
An investment of $US115.5 billion -
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- CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ
Vatican City
RNS
A coalition of big-tech companies and institutions meeting at the Vatican starting Thursday seeks to create a safe environment for children on the internet through cooperation and concrete actions.
The international and interreligious conference, “Promoting Digital Child Dignity: From Concept to Action,” was organised to
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- Besa Chembo
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- Kate Lamb and Jessie Pang
Hong Kong
Reuters
Anti-government protesters dug in at several university campuses across Hong Kong on Wednesday, setting the stage for further confrontations as police said violence in the Chinese-ruled city had reached a "very dangerous and even deadly level".
Protesters - many of them young students - spent
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- KIERAN GUILBERT
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The world's economic model has "broken down" as the business practices of multinational corporations and digital platforms put a growing number of workers at risk of exploitation and modern slavery, according to a leading labour rights campaigner.
Too many companies are failing to
