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Media: Participant Index Seeks to Determine Why One Film Spurs Activism, While Others Falter
NYT, By MICHAEL CIEPLY, JULY 6, 2014 The documentary film "The Square," about the Egyptian uprising in Tahrir Square, Cairo. On an impact scale of...
Afghanistan: Bicycle a new metaphor of freedom for Afghan women
Paghman (Afghanistan), 27 June 2014 – AFP Anuj CHOPRA / FEATURE Trundling down dun-coloured mountain slopes, they ignore hard stares and vulgarities...
Afghanistan: Stark choice for many Afghans: sickness or debt
Photo: Bethany Matta/IRIN The inpatient department for women who have just given birth at the public Ahmed Shah Baba Hospital in Kabul KABUL, 2 July...
Development: Killer Facts on Global Poverty and Development
oxfamblogs.org Please steal these killer facts: a crib sheet for advocacy on aid, development, inequality etc, by Duncan Green Development Success...
Afghanistan: How to Oversee Aid in Uncertain Times
From the U.S. Institute of Peace blog The Olive Branch. You can view this post on the USIP web site here. June 23, 2014 By Colin Cookman Last...
Media: Shubhranshu Choudhary: Giving a Voice to a Ravaged, Neglected Region | Innovators
news.nationalgeographic.com, June 30, 2014 As the South Asia producer for BBC TV and Radio during the 1990s and early 2000s, Shubhranshu Choudhary...
Media: Citizen journalism gets more stories out than traditional reporting in war-torn Syria
phys.org, June 29,2014 Citizen reporters are increasingly getting stories out of remote areas of Syria, which are difficult for traditional media to...
Media: Yes, media freedoms can be measured
cima.ned.org, by Mark Nelson, June 19, 2014 If you hang around the halls of United Nations and World Bank long enough, you’re sure to encounter the...
Media: The Christian Science Monitor is thinking about the best ways to turn reading into action
niemanlab.org, by Jeff Israely Lucia Moses has a story in Digiday about a new redesign of The Christian Science Monitor’s website. Here’s a promo...
Development, Haiti: Bill, Hillary and the Haiti Debacle
Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2014 The news website Tout Haiti reported last month that two prominent lawyers have petitioned...
Media, Haiti, Development: Sean Penn Accuses the Media of Ignoring Haiti’s Progress. But He’s Ignoring a Few Uncomfortable Facts, Too.
New Republic, June 19, 2014, By Jonathan M. Katz These days, when U.S. media outlets are looking for an update on the state of things in Haiti, one...