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Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom

silverguide.site – Two reports published today catalogue ‘gruesome yet avoidable accidents’ on construction sites despite the Gulf kingdom’s claims that work-related deaths have fallen…
Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom
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UK faces legal challenge over asylum seekers’ deportations to Bulgaria

silverguide.site – Deportees may face inhumane treatment and torture, say lawyers contesting Labour’s migration policy…
UK faces legal challenge over asylum seekers’ deportations to Bulgaria
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‘Now I steal people’s attention’: how a Brazilian newspaper has turned a city’s rough sleepers into journalists

silverguide.site – Porto Alegre’s Boca de Rua is sold and written by some of the city’s most vulnerable people, giving them a voice and a sense of purpose…
‘Now I steal people’s attention’: how a Brazilian newspaper has turned a city’s rough sleepers into journalists
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Toxic tofu? How plastic waste from the west fuels food factories in Indonesia

silverguide.site – Tofu factory owners in Indonesia’s East Java feed their boilers with tonnes of foreign plastics each week to produce tofu sold in the region…
Toxic tofu? How plastic waste from the west fuels food factories in Indonesia
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‘We’re ready to fight’: activists brace as US anti-rights figures descend on Africa

silverguide.site – Ultra-conservative campaigners fly in for ‘family values’ conferences to share tactics with African allies who oppose abortion and LGBTQ+ rights…
‘We’re ready to fight’: activists brace as US anti-rights figures descend on Africa
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‘If I had to choose, I’d prefer the earthquake’: the 2015 disaster left Nepal in ruins, now record rains wreak fresh havoc

silverguide.site – Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events and US aid cuts have left many feeling vulnerable…
‘If I had to choose, I’d prefer the earthquake’: the 2015 disaster left Nepal in ruins, now record rains wreak fresh havoc
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‘A future on our terms’: how community energy is lighting up Latin America

silverguide.site – Small-scale schemes are replacing dirty diesel with clean electricity in remote areas – and ensuring a just transition…
‘A future on our terms’: how community energy is lighting up Latin America
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Gleaming labs turned to rubble: scientists mourn the loss of decades of medical progress in Sudan

silverguide.site – Universities and laboratories in Khartoum are looted or in ruins, with vital research and medicines destroyed, including pioneering work on tropical diseases…
Gleaming labs turned to rubble: scientists mourn the loss of decades of medical progress in Sudan
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Trump’s aid cuts blamed as food rations stopped for a million refugees in Uganda

silverguide.site – UN World Food Programme says $50m is urgently needed amid fears that Uganda may now begin forced repatriations…
Trump’s aid cuts blamed as food rations stopped for a million refugees in Uganda
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Women behind the lens: ‘The dream had a quiet strangeness to it’

silverguide.site – Collage artist Tshepiso Moropa uses archive photography to create surreal images that come to her in sleep and last long after she wakes…
Women behind the lens: ‘The dream had a quiet strangeness to it’
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I’m a woman of 48 – and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk | Nilanjana Bhowmick

silverguide.site – In India, as elsewhere, ‘menopenalisation’ means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider society…
I’m a woman of 48 – and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk | Nilanjana Bhowmick
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‘Conversation on future of aid long overdue’: UK looks to lead response to swingeing US cuts

silverguide.site – Huge cuts by Trump administration to international aid budgets has left a vacuum and Britain is looking to lead efforts to find a path forward…
‘Conversation on future of aid long overdue’: UK looks to lead response to swingeing US cuts
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‘Blood timber’: western firms fuel conflict and ‘slavery’ in Colombia

silverguide.site – Trade in uncertified hardwood illegally logged in Chocó rainforest and imported by US and Europe is financing paramilitaries, says Environmental Investigation Agency…
‘Blood timber’: western firms fuel conflict and ‘slavery’ in Colombia
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GM mosquitoes: inside the lab breeding six-legged agents in the war on malaria

silverguide.site – A British company is producing mosquitoes that carry a ‘self-limiting’ gene that kills off female offspring, limiting the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever…
GM mosquitoes: inside the lab breeding six-legged agents in the war on malaria
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‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban

silverguide.site – Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghanistan…
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
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Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police

silverguide.site – Lawyers say evidence file outlines atrocities including torture and rape carried out by the Rapid Support Forces in the country’s brutal civil conflict…
Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police
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Mass arrests and beatings: how Ethiopia went from celebrating journalists to jailing them

silverguide.site – Hundreds of media workers have been detained, often on terror charges, or forced into exile by Abiy Ahmed’s regime…
Mass arrests and beatings: how Ethiopia went from celebrating journalists to jailing them
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From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women

silverguide.site – In countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunities…
From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women
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‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India

silverguide.site – Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons’ control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country’s democracy…
‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India
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‘A cocktail for a misinformed world’: why China and Russia are cheering Trump’s attacks on media

silverguide.site – Today on World Press Freedom Day, there are warnings that US attempts to withdraw from promoting independent journalism will have far-reaching effects…
‘A cocktail for a misinformed world’: why China and Russia are cheering Trump’s attacks on media
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