From Bangladesh’s vast camps to Myanmar’s prisons, volunteer sleuths search for clues on the missing, the imprisoned, and the dead Source: How do...
ON IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES | How do you find one refugee in a million?
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ON THE MEDIA | Jailed reporters’ wives ‘devastated’ by Aung San Suu Kyi response
The wives of two Reuters journalists found guilty of violating Myanmar’s official secrets act and jailed for seven years have publicly lamented Aung...
MIGRATION & ON THE MEDIA | Facebook Responds to Rohingya Genocide
With over 25,000 dead and 700,000 fleeing, the conflict in Myanmar is reaching a new wave of crimes against the Rohingya Muslims. The U.N. recently...
ON THE MEDIA | Life in Eritrea’s News Desert
What the country teaches the world about the importance of an independent press. Source: Life in Eritrea’s News Desert
ON DEVELOPMENT | Destabilizing Rescissions to Foreign Aid Funds Reportedly Halted | MFAN
The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network applauds the efforts of Congress and development champions to safeguard predictability for U.S....
ON MIGRATION | Court allows claims to move forward against private prison company that profits from forced labor of detained immigrants
A federal court has ruled that a private prison company can be held liable for forcing detained immigrants to work for as little as $1 a day to...
ON DEVELOPMENT | Blood, Sweat, and Batteries
Two-thirds of the world's cobalt, an essential ingredient in our smartphones and electric cars, comes from one of the planet's poorest countries....
ON THE MEDIA | Explanatory video + engagement = How Vox’s Borders series is humanizing the map and building local source networks
"I was sensitive to saying, 'Here I am, an outsider, a non-expert going to these places and saying I’m here to explain this.'" Source: Explanatory...
CSFilm mourns the passing of our long-time friend, supporter and fellow filmmaker, Denise Marika
Denise Marika was bold and visionary, energetic and friendly, and incredibly determined. Her early moral and financial support of the New Immigrant...
IMMIGRATION ISSUES | When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they...
ON THE MEDIA | Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam arrested over ‘provocative comments’
Shahidul Alam, an influential voice in photography, criticized his government's use of violence to repress protests Source: Analysis | Bangladeshi...
In Germany, a news site is pairing up liberals and conservatives and actually getting them to (gasp) have a civil conversation
And apparently without incident! "The ultimate goal is a less polarized debate and a less polarized, more open, and plural public...But we also want...