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Oct 26, 2023

Crowd-Driven Journalism: Four Groundbreaking Investigative Projects Powered by Public Engagement

by Sarah Ulrich for Global Investigative Journalism Network • October 19, 2023 Communities are often considered as merely our audience in journalism. However, the journalist-community relationship can go far beyond this top-down approach. Local communities can be engaged to help report impactful stories, provide tips and resources, and even bolster the finances of

Oct 23, 2023

Hamas-Israel conflict: Algeria offers to host Palestine’s football matches – the bigger history

Mahfoud Amara, Qatar University Palestine was about to embark on its 2026 men’s Fifa World Cup qualifying campaign when the latest round of Hamas-Israeli conflict broke out, making Palestine’s national football stadium in the Israeli-occupied West Bank potentially unsafe for matches. As a result, the Asian Football Confederation asked the football-loving nation to

Oct 20, 2023

The Blair Years

Title: The Blair Years Author: Alastair Campbell In “The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries”, the reader is offered an unfiltered passage through the corridors of British power at a time when the nation was undergoing tectonic shifts, both politically and culturally. Alastair Campbell — often regarded as the Machiavellian maestro

Oct 17, 2023

Mauritius is the latest nation to decriminalise same-sex relations in a divided continent

Frans Viljoen, University of Pretoria The Mauritius Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a law that criminalises consensual same-sex acts between adult men. The decision boosts the trend in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region towards decriminalisation. Now, a slight majority – nine out of 16 member states – do not prohibit gay

Oct 16, 2023

Palestinian conflict: how despair can drive people to violence, even if it puts their lives in danger

Nina Gren, Lund University During the 20 years I have been involved in research with Palestinians in the occupied territories, accounts of despair and frustration, and at times resignation and hopelessness, have been a constant theme. As other recent articles in The Conversation have highlighted, the situation in the West Bank and the

Oct 16, 2023

What is Hamas? Seven key questions answered

ph. Anas-Mohammed / Shutterstock Sergio García Magariño, Universidad Pública de Navarra The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the longest and most violent ongoing modern conflicts. It involves multiple causes, and includes various actors, one of which is Hamas, perpetrators of the brutal attack on Israel that has initiated the war in Gaza. But

Oct 16, 2023

Gaza depends on UN and other global aid groups for food, medicine and basic services – Israel-Hamas war means nothing is getting in

Palestinian children play outside an UNRWA school following Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 12, 2023. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego International aid groups are warning that they cannot deliver food and other basic services to people in the Gaza Strip and that a “dire” humanitarian crisis is

Oct 13, 2023

The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

Title: “The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life” Author: Theresa May In “The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life”, former Prime Minister Theresa May pens a fervent and incisive narrative detailing her front-row encounters with numerous instances of power misuse, ethical slips, and downright corruption at the very heart

Oct 12, 2023

A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder

by Duaa Eldeib ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Stillbirths:When Babies Die Before Taking Their First Breath The U.S. has not prioritized stillbirth prevention, and American parents are losing babies even as other countries make

Oct 11, 2023

To be a policy optimist, try some rose-coloured realism

by Carolyn Hughes Tuohy. Originally published on Policy Options A comment from a student during a recent conversation stopped me in my tracks. “The longer we spend in graduate school, the more depressed we get,” they said. In this student’s immediate cohort, it’s a commonly held view about the world that awaits them

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