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1 week ago | 
rotary.org | Amy Fallon
When David Harmon resolved to mobilize his community against domestic violence, he quickly ran into a first hurdle: persuading the mayor at the time to close the streets for a march. The small town of Ballina is a popular family vacation spot on Australia’s eastern coast, and the mayor worried the attention might be bad for business. “He said, ‘Dave, we will never, ever close a road in Ballina for a domestic violence walk.
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2 weeks ago | 
womensagenda.com.au | Amy Fallon
Johanna Rüdiger was once flooded with questions from traditional journalists about dancing on Berlin Fresh, German broadcaster DW’s first TikTok account. But five years since Rüdiger started combining her social media strategy day job with running the account, amassing a staggering half a million followers, she receives “less and less” queries.
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2 weeks ago | 
national.thelead.uk | Amy Fallon
Thousands of small charities have implored the government to urgently investigate improvements to support and funding, as some vital organisations are now facing closure following the decision to cut foreign aid. As Britain is warned it will miss the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs] deadline – of 2030 – campaigners fear millions around the world will be left lacking education, proper healthcare, food, and routes out of poverty.
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4 weeks ago | 
rotary.org | Amy Fallon
When Ugandan village elders meet with Stuart Raymond Kasule about supporting people with mental health struggles, they volunteer ideas to show more empathy. They want to know, for example, how to open a conversation with a person who is suffering. “That shows you that the people are crying out to say, we need help, we need support,” Kasule says.
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1 month ago | 
crikey.com.au | Amy Fallon
Substack, the widely used publishing and social media platform, recently surpassed 5 million paid subscriptions globally, with tens of millions of total active subscribers. You might recognise some writers and journalists on it, such as Rick Morton, John Birmingham, Bec Shaw, Tim Burrowes, Dan Barrett, Jonathan Green, Joel Jenkins, Mia Freedman, Clare Stephens, Jess Hill, Bri Lee, Cameron Wilson, Gideon Haigh, Peter Lalor, Sam Perry, Nick Feik and Malcolm Turnbull. Some are Crikey contributors.
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1 month ago | 
nikatalbot.io | Nika Talbot |Amy Fallon
I’ve been catching up on the International Journalism Festival, Europe's biggest annual media event - held every April in Perugia, Italy. Free entry. No tickets, no bookings. You just rock up and enjoy. They livestream it on YouTube and upload most sessions, so you can follow along from home. Which is great because talks always clash and you can’t get into all of them anyway.
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2 months ago | 
devex.com | Amy Fallon
The last thing that Olivia Barker White wanted to do was to start a charity. She was aware of the “white savior” trope, she said. But feeling that there were not many organizations helping to properly care for slum children in Uganda and reunite them with local families, she felt compelled to. Since 2009, Kids Club Kampala, or KCK, which Barker White co-founded and now runs, has helped over 1.5 million people across multiple slum communities in Uganda.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Mark Stimpson |Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Amy Fallon
The beauty and power of Iran’s music is being strangled, with many musicians jailed and tortured purely for raising their voices against the regime’s viciousness and in harmony with those protesting against it. The case of rapper and Index Freedom of Expression award-winner Toomaj Salehi has been the highest profile case of Iran cracking down on freedom of expression among the country’s musicians but he is not alone.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Alexandra Domenech |Amy Fallon
The news this week has been dominated by the growing feud between Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which has culminated in possibly irreparable relations between the presidents. What started with a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine (from which Zelenskyy was excluded) ended in a stream of disinformation coming from the leader of the world’s largest economy.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Jemimah Steinfeld |Alexandra Domenech |Amy Fallon
It would have been difficult to miss the recent flurry of news regarding cuts to international aid organisations, and the repercussions these will have in areas such as climate change mitigation, tackling gender-based violence, and supporting independent journalism in countries with severe free speech violations. Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID (the US Agency for International Development) will decimate such assistance, with more than 90% of the agency’s foreign aid contracts due to be eliminated.
