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Day: May 14, 2019

Safeguarding Women After Disasters: Some Progress, but Not Enough

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World Wide (Conversation) – Hundreds of Mozambicans were killed and thousands made homeless recently by Cyclones Idai and Kenneth. Almost immediately, there were reports of a sadly familiar story: women being forced to trade sex for food by local community leaders distributing aid. Globally, international organisations appear to be grappling with the issue more seriously than before. Yet reports about sexual exploitation keep coming. How does the aid community strategise to protect women’s safety in disaster situations? Over the past 15 years, I have done research on sexual exploitation of…

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VETERAN JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST BILL WEINBERG ON GEOPOLITICS AND THE LEFT

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Jae: Could you introduce yourself for those unfamiliar with your work? Bill:  I’m a 30-year veteran journalist in the fields of human rights, indigenous peoples, drug policy and war. I’ve reported widely from Latin America and am the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico, about the Zapatistas and related movements. I’m struggling to finish a follow-up book about indigenous struggles in the Andes. I was news editor at High Times magazine in the ’90s, and continue to cover the drug war beat for Cannabis Now magazine. I was a…

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