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- The Purest Choice: the Egyptian mothers standing up to female genital mutilation“It’s easy to forget what you ate that day, or what the weather was like. But forgetting the trauma, forgetting the pain, is impossible.”
- Beatrice Fihn: “As long as we have nuclear weapons, nuclear war will always be an option”“With nuclear weapons, it is hard for people to visualise their impact. But, like climate change, nuclear weapons know no borders. These are international issues that need multilateral solutions with everyone [...]
- Exiled Nicaraguan journalist Lucía Pineda: “Our crime was to report the truth”“Our hands are clean. We haven’t committed any crime. Our ‘crime’ was to report the truth and to put the media at the disposal of the people and their needs. And the price has been jail, censorship and exile, as witnessed by the 80 or so journalists [...]
- “‘Hot desking’ and ‘clean desk’ policies are a source of anxiety for employees,” says sociologist Danièle Linhart“The way the workspace is organised is a way of telling you: ‘This is our place, not yours.’”
- The faces behind the oil America went to war for“Photographers often speak about ‘putting a human face’ on a particular social problem or movement. These images introduced the human faces of Iraqi oil workers to workers abroad.”
- Ex-child domestic worker Angela Benedicto calls on the Tanzanian government to shore up protections to “break the cycle of poverty”“Gender-based violence in school and at home, harmful traditional practices – all aggravated by poverty – are the factors pushing children into domestic work. If we had good and strict laws which prohibit children from working, we will not be where [...]