Sian Norris
Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy
Senior Investigative Reporter, openDemocracy | Bylines in Observer, Times, the i, Ferret | Bodies Under Siege pub by Verso | Email [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
sianushka.substack.com | Sian Norris
It was September 2023, and I was sitting in the Georgian restaurant in the heart of Kharkiv’s Shevchenko Gardens, reading Virginia Cowles’ memoir Looking for Trouble. She was describing life in Madrid during the Spains’s civil war, and her first experience of shelling.
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1 month ago |
l8r.it | Sian Norris
Levana Coker had recently moved to Dorset, on England’s south coast, when she first saw the advert in her local Job Centre. It was for a housekeeper at a large-scale accommodation site, she said, £11.50 an hour for the first month, rising to £12 per hour after that. Levana was training to become a dog groomer but needed a job to stay afloat until she qualified. She applied, and was duly accepted. It was the summer of 2023.
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Nov 5, 2024 |
sianushka.substack.com | Sian Norris
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Oct 21, 2024 |
l8r.it | Sian Norris
The UK military is failing to enforce its “zero tolerance” ban on sexual exploitation abroad, with campaigners claiming soldiers stationed overseas are regularly paying for sex and raping and abusing local young women. An investigation by openDemocracy has found that not a single serving personnel was found to have paid for sex or otherwise “engaged in sexual exploitation and abuse” since it was banned under the military’s Zero Tolerance Policy in November 2022.
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Oct 3, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka |Sian Norris |Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu
The European Union has awarded more than half a million euros to a charity that compared abortion to the Holocaust and promotes disinformation about abortion and contraception. The charity World Youth Alliance (WYA) was awarded €572,000 of public money via the Erasmus programme between 2010 and 2022, according to data from the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF).
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