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Minería en Tierras Indígenas con nombre y apellido
La investigación revela una explosión de procesos desde 2019 y enumera a los beneficiarios con más solicitudes mineras en Tierras Indígenas: políticos, cooperativas mineras e incluso un artista de Sao Paulo. Segundo lugar del Concurso de Periodismo de Datos “Todos los Ojos en la Amazonía” Por Anna Beatriz Anjos, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros, José Cícero…
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Con Bolsonaro, las fincas se certificaron irregularmente en las Tierras Indígenas de la Amazonía
Investigación exclusiva revela que más de 100 propiedades han sido autorizadas en las Tierras Indígenas (TI) en espera de demarcación. Las autorizaciones explotaron con una nueva ordenanza de la Funai que desprotege estos territorios. Ganador del Primer Lugar del Concurso de Periodismo de Datos “Todos los Ojos en la Amazonía” Por Bruno Fonseca y Rafael…
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Resilience during COVID-19 at JP Cuttings flower farm
Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 disease in Uganda in March 2020, the management of JP Cuttings flower farm, in Uganda, initiated immediate measures aimed at ensuring that the health and safety of the employees is guaranteed. According to Ms Hamid Janat, the Human Resource Officer at JP Cuttings, the farm immediately acquired basic items,…
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How Tanzanian flower farms ensured workers were protected during COVID-19
When the first case of Covid-19 was reported in Tanzania on March 16, 2020, stakeholders in the flower industry, immediately started to think about how to cushion the workers and the businesses from effects of the pandemic. Three major flower farms namely; Dekker Bruins Tanzania, Fides and Mount Meru Flowers not only focused on how…
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To address food insecurity in Uganda post COVID-19 the government must act now
In the wake of COVID-19, food insecurity in Uganda is drastically increasing. Food Rights Alliance and Twaweza East Africa call on the Uganda government to take specific and urgent action to address the growing threats to food security following the pandemic. In Uganda, as in many countries across the world, COVID-19 has challenged communities and the…
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Addressing dietary challenges in Gulu, Uganda
Four years ago Janet Achiro would only dream of having a decent meal. Achiro a resident of Bardege Division in Gulu is among the scores who have been leading dejected lives after the three decade war that ravaged northern Uganda. Gulu has for over three decades been a hotbed for rebellion and insurgency by the…
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Patriarchy is an enemy of selfhood
By Ruth Kimani and Sally Akinyi Women’s selfhood has been historically controlled and even outrightly denied by law, customary practice, and cultural stereotypes. Selfhood – a state where a woman repositions herself outside traditional gender and cultural norms – is emerging as a feminist perspective on the right to “self”. Identified either as inferior versions…
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Agriculture and climate change
Shifting weather patterns threaten food production. From the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the earth’s atmosphere to the rising sea levels. greenhouse gases have caused the earth’s climatic system to retain more energy resulting in extreme weather there by increasing wildfires. They also contribute to air pollution which in turn…
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Ruta de la Salud Indígena Amazónica: impactos y próximos pasos
¿Sabías que en la Amazonía, el riesgo de contraer Covid 19 es casi dos veces mayor? En Ecuador, por cada persona contagiada hay 1.94 personas afectadas en la Amazonía. En ese contexto, defender a la Amazonía y sus habitantes se vuelve un reto aún más grande, ya que además de responder a la emergencia sanitaria, los…
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Youth in Latin America: reclaiming our right to a sustainable future
This year, International Youth Day celebrated “Youth Engagement for Global Action.” The day is meant to highlight how youth participation at all levels can create more diverse, inclusive, and resilient societies. It is common to hear that young people represent the future of the planet. In reality, they are working now to build the future…
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Mobile legal clinics; women flower workers rescue
Therese Nyirarugo lived with a man who sexually and verbally abused her; but she didn’t want to tell anybody about it. Maybe he would one day ‘change’, she thought. Then she conceived his baby. He chased her away and denied paternity of the child. Haguruka sued him on her behalf. The court ordered that the…
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We will not win the COVID-19 pandemic without trust
‘Transparency and openness of governments helps people to trust that institutions will deliver for them.’ These are the words of the late Bob Collymore when he reflected on the sources of distrust between citizens and their governments in 2017. He went on to say that indeed, majority of the world has lost trust in…