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‘Invasive’ AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts

silverguide.site – Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds…
‘Invasive’ AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts

Prison sentences for pair who attacked gay men hailed as sign of hope for Kenya’s LGBTQ+ community

silverguide.site – The perpetrators were jailed for 15 years for robbery with violence in the east African country, where homophobic attacks are increasing…
Prison sentences for pair who attacked gay men hailed as sign of hope for Kenya’s LGBTQ+ community

‘Everyone feels like they are being scammed’: can Central America’s small coffee growers survive as global prices fall?

silverguide.site – Family-run farms in El Salvador and Honduras face mounting losses, rising costs – and the need to adapt or be left behind…
‘Everyone feels like they are being scammed’: can Central America’s small coffee growers survive as global prices fall?

Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office

silverguide.site – José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion ban…
Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office

‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan

silverguide.site – Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on farming communities were intended to prevent villages producing food…
‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan

Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible?

silverguide.site – Trump has blamed Iran for the mass killing at Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school but geolocation, videos, satellite imagery and fragments apparently recovered from the site indicate otherwise…
Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible?

‘We want to give them their names back’: the team identifying Europe’s forgotten female murder victims

silverguide.site – Interpol’s DNA unit is helping bring closure to families of murder victims, whose names may be unknown for decades…
‘We want to give them their names back’: the team identifying Europe’s forgotten female murder victims

Will UN plans to transform the way it works ‘throw equality under the bus’?

silverguide.site – Many of those attending the world’s largest meeting on women’s rights in New York this week are primed to defend the two key UN agencies that protect women and girls around the world…
Will UN plans to transform the way it works ‘throw equality under the bus’?

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns

silverguide.site – Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable…
UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns

Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules

silverguide.site – Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaign…
Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

silverguide.site – Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war…
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

Investment in food systems should be a priority | Letter

silverguide.site – Letter: Leading researchers call for sustained investment by governments and policymakers to enable scientific innovations aimed at preventing malnutrition…
Investment in food systems should be a priority | Letter

Climate aid cuts are a disaster for global south | Letter

silverguide.site – Letter: Withdrawing support for programmes in developing countries sends a harmful signal about whose futures are allowed to be protected, says Millie Edwards …
Climate aid cuts are a disaster for global south | Letter

Iran’s internet blackout could worsen human toll of war, say rights groups

silverguide.site – Experts say government’s shutdown means civilians are not seeing evacuation warnings before bombs hit…
 Iran’s internet blackout could worsen human toll of war, say rights groups

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

silverguide.site – A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site…
Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

Historic harvests and sky-high prices – so why can’t Colombia’s coffee-growers hire pickers?

silverguide.site – Though coffee is one of the world’s most important commodities, little of the profit trickles down to the farmers, while workers are abandoning the countryside in search of more lucrative jobs in the city…
Historic harvests and sky-high prices – so why can’t Colombia’s coffee-growers hire pickers?

Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank

silverguide.site – Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say critics…
 Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank

My sexual freedom odyssey: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today

silverguide.site – By speaking to women across the continent, I discovered how reclaiming pre-colonial rites and rituals can help us find joy in our bodies…
My sexual freedom odyssey: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today

‘Now they only deport’: Afghans trapped in Pakistan arrested and sent back after ‘open war’ breaks out

silverguide.site – Journalists and activists who fled Taliban rule are living in fear as Pakistani police hunt and deport refugees after escalating cross-border strikes…
‘Now they only deport’: Afghans trapped in Pakistan arrested and sent back after ‘open war’ breaks out

Civilian deaths in Iran pass 200 amid fear of bombs and regime clampdown

silverguide.site – As US-Israeli airstrikes hit their cities, people tell of how the authorities are warning them off the streets…
Civilian deaths in Iran pass 200 amid fear of bombs and regime clampdown
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