WorldWise

Truly global insight where current affairs meet development, health, planet. Navigating the media, disrupting North-centric views. By @anita_makri

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Plan to attend their webinar on Thursday, March 21 at 10:30 AM Eastern Time 🗓️

Register in advance here https://t.co/4x04YzS5gn

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.@WorldHungerDay is May 28 and this year’s theme is “Thriving Mothers. Thriving World.”

Want to hear from @HungerProject CEO Tim Prewitt and THP-Malawi Country Manager Grace Chikowi, a trained nutritionist? 🌐

[Renzo Guinto @RenzoGuinto]

Tnx @anita_makri @worldwiseview for including my take on the role of health in #COP28

Next year, we must not just be a series of side events, but be inside the negotiations, because the health of both planet & its people are at stake! #PlanetaryHealth🌏

https://t.co/1paKgOsfN4

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Beautiful to see the creative vision of these three artists helping them draw attention to the fight for equality 🌐

@boell_gender @caroline__kimeu @ConstanceMlrt @zbilginsoy @guardian

#globaldev #feminist #art #Kenya #Brazil #Turkey

[Isabel Choat @isabelchoat]

Love this new collection of graphic short stories by feminist artists published by @boell_gender

Feminism in pictures: illustrated stories of women’s rights around the world https://t.co/kljEV1TkcF

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"#Guyana has denounced the referendum as pretext to annex the land. It had appealed to @CIJ_ICJ, @UN's top court, which on Friday ordered #Venezuela not to take any action to change the status quo until the panel can rule on the two countries’ competing claims"

[Dánica Coto @danicacoto]

Venezuela's president directs country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own:
https://t.co/J7osmVi9sx

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack. https://t.co/zb2QkPaRUy

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"The question still remains whether Union Carbide & Dow Chemical will ever compensate newer victims of the disaster as demanded by survivors & advocacy groups"

A toxic chemical used in pesticides burst from a local factory decades ago. #Bhopal's people are still paying for it 🌐

[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

Nearly 40 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster, scores of victims still suffer with little recourse in Bhopal, India. https://t.co/oUAWqJYOtb

[Amy Fallon @amyfallon]

Why a performing arts center was built in Africa’s largest refugee camp
https://t.co/5Pg9es8bGq #Uganda #refugees #withrefugees

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America. My report on the referendum in Venezuela on the Essequibo region and on @exxonmobil’s divide and conquer strategy in South America: https://t.co/lVtHBrNShJ

[Mekong Eye @MekongEye]

Woody biomass has been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuels, but reality is different.
Read ME's 2-part series exposing the greenwashing side of woody biomass:
Part 1: https://t.co/SQ16eWHlUd
Part 2: https://t.co/338me5saFm
Story: Vo Kieu Bao Uyen
Visuals: Thanh Nguyen

[Brady Dennis @brady_dennis]

2023 will be Earth’s hottest year in human history, WMO report confirms - ⁦@ssdance⁩ https://t.co/h679vGLxR0

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

In Nairobi, skateboarding provides an alternative space where consumption is not a prerequisite for entry. https://t.co/j5yV8Z9OdG

[Freedom United @freedomunitedHQ]

"The mixture of the extreme poverty in the regions where the fruit grows and the architecture of the tree itself — it rises tall and thin — means that the harvesters who scamper up the stalks to pick it are often young children." @washingtonpost https://t.co/JOLAfdlYvl

[Sushmita Pathak @sushmitza]

View from my balcony in September vs November. Wrote about why this happens and why we’re not able to stop it. @WIRED
#DelhiSmog
https://t.co/kyZwtFGRJ0

[The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian]

What does the four-day pause in fighting in Gaza mean for aid efforts into the enclave, where 70% of people have been forced from their homes, and many are on the brink of starvation? Mourad Hijazi reports for @newhumanitarian. Read here ⬇️
https://t.co/p5yr1LWT5D

[Katy Fallon @katymfallon]

How Europe’s largest wildfire this summer in Greece got blamed on people on the move - when climate disinformation and misinformation fuses with climate change and migration - our piece with @g_christides & 📷 Alexandros Avramidis. https://t.co/Wzwjo4g7O5

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Musk’s #Starlink has drawn the interest of many in the #Amazon region for whom "the internet is a tool that can create opportunities in telemedicine, distance education, politics, business, leisure, & the fight against human rights abuses..."🇧🇷

✍️ @DuchiadeAndre @CatarinaBarbosa

[Eliane Brum @brumelianebrum]

Starlink: ‘Elon Musk’s internet’ brings euphoria and fear to the Amazon
by @sumaumajournal
https://t.co/202oUnzwgS

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Fishers & local people who depend on #Venezuela's lake Maracaibo for their livelihoods are using rakes, their own hands & even human and animal hair to clean up the damage from inadequate waste management & neglect of oil industrial infrastructure 🇻🇪
✍️@camillerodrmont @guardian

[Global Development @GdnDevelopment]

‘It’s not perfect – but it’s not dead’: the mission to save Lake Maracaibo – a photo essay https://t.co/IFIO5YbhKf

[grist @grist]

Indigenous peoples bear both the weight of climate change’s impacts and carry knowledge that may help lessen its burden, according to the new National Climate Assessment published Tuesday https://t.co/gHGrH3Zeyl

[African Arguments @africaarguments]

#Africa’s lack of weather stations is costing lives

US + EU (population: 1.1 billion)
Weather stations: 636

Africa (population 1.2 billion)
Weather stations: 37

https://t.co/WU1TnYXRdc