Isabel Choat
Commissioning Editor, Global Development at The Guardian
Commissioning editor, global development, the Guardian. Former online travel editor at the Guardian. Email pitches to: [email protected]
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Isabel Choat
Hundreds of life-size animal puppets have begun a 20,000km (12,400 mile) journey from central Africa to the Arctic Circle as part of an ambitious project created by the team behind Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian girl that travelled across the world. The public art initiative called The Herds, which has already visited Kinshasa and Lagos, will travel to 20 cities over four months to raise awareness of the climate crisis.
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2 months ago |
aol.co.uk | Isabel Choat
The World Bank is embarking on a multimillion-dollar programme in response to alleged human rights abuses against Tanzanian herders during a flagship tourism project it funded for seven years. Allegations made by pastoralist communities living in and around Ruaha national park include violent evictions, sexual assaults, killings, forced disappearances and large-scale cattle seizures from herders committed by rangers working for the Tanzanian national park authority (Tanapa).
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Isabel Choat
When three men were sentenced to 25 years each for the gang-rape of a teenager in north-eastern India in 2017, the impact on their home village was profound. For 14 months between the attack and the verdict, the community ostracised, threatened and vilified the survivor’s family as they pursued justice for 13-year-old Kiran* – a story captured in the Oscar-nominated 2022 documentary To Kill A Tiger. But the landmark ruling led to an immediate cultural shift in the rural community.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Isabel Choat
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Isabel Choat
In a meeting room on the 27th floor of a swish Manhattan hotel, Denise Mountenay is telling the audience that the right to abortion is “Nazi thinking.” Mountenay regrets her own abortions, and says she has been called by God to spread the word that she and other women “were lied to, deceived, pressured into making the most horrible choice: to choose death instead of life”. She goes on to list reasons why abortion is “not a safe procedure.
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Beautiful photos & a fascinating piece from Bolivia by @sajajohnson ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit | Global development | The Guardian https://t.co/PIPgnL5a6b
Guardian investigation reveals brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings, rapes and collusion with smugglers by Tunisian forces funded by the EU https://t.co/irfTGA89VK