Trendspotters: “Spoonvilles” brighten up lockdown days
DAVID ADAMS reports on the Spoonville craze…
UK TV soap ‘EastEnders’ could “save lives” with domestic abuse under lockdown plot
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation A harrowing storyline in the popular British soap opera EastEnders could save lives, as a mother is killed by her husband as she tries to flee her toxic marriage following lockdown, domestic abuse charities said. Reports of domestic abuse have soared around the world during the new coronavirus pandemic, with lockdowns […]
Spain’s migrant fruit-pickers find unexpected haven in quarantine centre
Juneda, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Moroccan fruit-picker Abdelhak el Yakoubi was dizzy and aching when he arrived at La Manreana, a farm school in Spain that has been turned into a quarantine centre for agricultural workers with COVID-19. But less than a week later, the burly 46-year-old was back on his feet and preparing to be […]
Essay: Social eating – inside the supermarket surplus initiatives that could change the way we eat
UK academics MARSHA SMITH and DAVID BEK look, in an article first published on The Conversation, at the importance of social eating initiatives and how they have adapted during the coronavirus pandemic…
Essay: Hunger, lost income and increased anxiety – how coronavirus lockdowns put huge pressure on young people around the world
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academics MARTA FAVARA, ALAN SÁNCHEZ, CATHERINE PORTER and DOUGLAS SCOTT report on the findings of a poll of 10,000 young people…
What pandemic? For 87-year-old Australian Doreen Rose, life’s been busier than usual
When the global pandemic meant instant lockdown for those in retirement villages and aged care facilities across Australia, Doreen Rose hardly noticed. The 87-year old resident of Carinity Brownesholme (some 16 kilometres outside of Toowoomba in Queensland) had moved to her single unit there in 2005, having already travelled the world, and has been busy […]
Hundreds of girls, women have disappeared during pandemic in Peru
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation More than 900 women and girls have gone missing in Peru during its coronavirus lockdown, a top women’s rights official said on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a national missing persons register to addressing the “alarming” number of disappearances. Records must be kept to track those who go missing, whether […]
South Africans go online to document police brutality
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Strict enforcement of South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown by police and the army has placed the spotlight on official brutality, a cause of anger among the majority Black population for decades. Now a coalition of human rights organisations called C19 is seeking to document those abuses, hoping the data gathered will […]
Wield the law to stop human traffickers exploiting pandemic, watchdog says
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Countries should focus on prosecuting human traffickers to stop a surge in exploitation as the economic fallout from coronavirus lockdowns makes more people vulnerable to the crime, a senior European security official said on Tuesday. Criminal justice has been interrupted globally by the pandemic and needs to be revived to […]
Australia weighs further coronavirus curbs as outbreak grows
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s most populous states will impose harsher restrictions on movement if a COVID-19 outbreak is not quickly bought under control, state premiers said on Wednesday. Australia has been heralded as a global leader in containing COVID-19, its total death toll lower than what Florida reported on Tuesday alone. Even so, it has seen […]