By: Secret aid worker 29 March 2016 The Guardian Is it hypocritical for an aid agency to come to a developing country looking to improve local...
DEVELOPMENT: Secret aid worker: Why do expats earn more than the rest of us?
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ON THE MEDIA: In central Africa, citizens are using social media to build democracy. Here’s how.
By Elie Smith April 6 2016 The Washington Post Early Monday, heavy gunfire was reported in Brazzaville in Congo Republic, after disputed...
DEVELOPMENT: Where does the $8bn UN peacekeeping budget go?
By: Joe Sandler Clarke 6 April 2016 The Guardian The United Nation’s budget seems healthy, but across the world missions are facing alarming...
ON THE MEDIA: Syrian independent media offers bold challenge to extremism
By: Julia Taleb April 8, 2016 Waging Nonviolence On January 10, the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Syria, stormed the...
DEVELOPMENT: My career’s biggest lesson: no women, no development
By: Patricia T. Morris 3 April 2016 The Guardian More than two decades after the Beijing conference, the absence of women’s perspectives and...
ON THE MEDIA: Media In The Cross hairs: Militants Continue To Target Journalists In Pakistan
By: Raza Rumi APRIL 7TH, 2016 CIMA Despite the commitments of the Pakistan government to protect journalists, media freedoms remain...
AFGHANISTAN: All Hail, the Brother of the Lion of Panjshir!
By: SUNE ENGEL RASMUSSEN APRIL 12, 2016 Foreign Policy PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan — On a recent Monday afternoon in Afghanistan’s northern...
ON THE MEDIA: Shorter isn’t better, photos aren’t always alluring and deep digging pays off, recent report concludes
By Rick Edmonds March 31, 2016 POYNTER Shorter isn’t better, photos aren’t always alluring and deep digging pays off, recent report concludes...
ON THE MEDIA: Commentary: When faraway tragedies are ignored, it’s not always the media’s fault
By: Charles J. Johnson March 30, 2016 Chicago Tribune (Warning: Some images are graphic) I know how this is gonna go. On my day...
AFGHANISTAN: What became of 25 young Afghan deportees?
By Kristy Siegfried 6 April 2016 IRIN Zakir was just 14 when he fled pressure from Taliban fighters to join their ranks and embarked on the long...
Haitian media partner highlights Owning Our Future, Kreole
Haitian Alternative Information Network Haïti/Reconstruction post-séisme : Des efforts de relèvement, exposés dans des mini-films documentaires...
AFGHANISTAN: Amina Azimi — Raising the Voices of the Disabled in Afghanistan
Patricia Chadwick Mar 25 2016 Internews Amina Azimi was a young girl when she lost her right leg from a rocket propelled grenade that landed near...