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  • How new technology is helping to identify human rights abuses in the seafood industry

    February 25, 2021 |

    The Counter |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ghana

    A growing number of governments, companies, and nonprofit organizations are working together with new technology and data to identify fishing vessels that are breaking laws and engaging in human rights violations. Using satellite imagery and tracking signals, for example, a philanthropic company and a nonprofit worked with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to help the Ghanian navy arrest four vessels for illegal fishing practices. Technology by itself won’t stop forced labor and unregulated ships, but it can be helpful for cash-strapped governments looking to increase oversight of their fisheries.

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  • Network Connects Indigenous Knowledges in the Arctic and U.S. Southwest

    January 13, 2021 |

    Eos |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network (IFKN) connects Indigenous scholars, community members, and leaders from tribes in the Arctic and the U.S. Southwest to work together on achieving food sovereignty. By visiting each other’s lands, they share their traditional knowledge on farming practices and river restoration. Because of the network, they received a grant to study the effects of COVID-19 on food access for Indigenous communities. “We can learn from one another, teach each other, and also work together on finding different solutions,” said a member of the IFKN steering committee.

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  • How They Did It: Tracking Down a Rwandan Genocide Suspect

    October 27, 2020 |

    Global Investigative Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: France, Orléans

    Years after international authorities had stopped searching for a man suspected of being an architect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a freelance journalist spent eight months searching data and doing on the ground reporting to find the suspect in central France. A story on the find by journalist Théo Englebert led Rwanda to issue an arrest warrant and a French prosecutor to open a counterterrorism investigation. Englebert's sleuthing provides a tutorial on "finding someone who wants to disappear."

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  • Cooperating over shared water in West Africa

    October 06, 2020 |

    Geneva Solutions |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Senegal

    There are over 250 rivers and lakes that are shared between countries, accounting for more than half of world's freshwater. This means that countries have to cooperate to share resources. In 1972, Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania did just that. They formed the Senegal River Basin Development Authority, or the OMVS (for its French initials). In 2005, Guinea joined. The organization is an example of how countries can join forces to share water resources cooperatively.

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  • Fans Without Football

    June 09, 2020 |

    Are We Europe |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Italy, Milan, Lombardy

    Europe’s hardcore football fans, deprived of the communal experience of watching their sport in raucous stadium crowds during the pandemic, redirected their energies toward public service projects to help communities cope with the virus. The oft-maligned “ultra” movement, blamed for the COVID-19 outbreak that became the epicenter of Europe’s virus crisis, has made hospital donations, collected food bank donations and delivered food to shut-ins, and made personal protective equipment. The philanthropy has spread across the continent to demonstrate the movement's ability to act responsibly.

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  • How a trickle of water is breathing life into the parched Colorado River Delta

    April 19, 2020 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Mexico, Francisco Murguía, Baja California Sur

    A unique partnership between environmental groups and governments in the United States and Mexico has led to the resurrection of wetlands and forests in the long-dry Colorado River Delta. Since the waters were dammed and diverted in the 1900s, estuaries dried up and vegetation was lost. The two nations agreed to rewet the delta via a planned flood. Even though there isn’t enough water available to restore a flowing river, these restoration projects on parts of the delta have shown promise. Challenges, including limited funds and hotter, drier conditions due to climate change, remain for its longterm success.

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  • Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together

    April 01, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    While most other scientific research around the world has come to a halt, coronavirus research is flourishing as a global collaboration of scientists focuses on understanding the virus and finding a vaccine. Competition among scientists and countries is still fervent, but information is being shared across labs and borders more urgently and quickly than before.

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  • 위기 속 한국-베트남 우정, 서로 ‘윈윈'… 교민들은 협조ㆍ베트남은 배려

    March 26, 2020 |

    한국일보 |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Hanoi

    한때 베트남에서는 코로나19 관련 조치들로 교민사회와 베트남 현지인들 간에 갈등 양상이 빚어졌습니다. 이를 해소하고자 하노이, 호찌민 등 교민사회를 중심으로 '선플' 운동, 현지 구호활동 등이 벌어졌고 베트남 정부 역시 한국인을 대상으로 별도숙소를 마련하고 특별 노동허가 발급을 추진하는 등 '윈윈'을 달성하기 위한 노력들이 결실을 맺었습니다.

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  • Illegal Fishing You Can See from Space

    February 21, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    A space-based initiative called Global Fishing Watch is using satellite imagery and data to hold companies accountable to their promise of providing sustainable sourced seafood. While the volume of data and cost of obtaining it can be a challenge, the organization has partnered with key collaborators to help with the effort. Countries like Indonesia and Panama are working with them to stop illegal fishing.

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  • Peace Studies Program Attracts Young Iraqis Eager for Social Change

    February 10, 2020 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Iraq, Duhaq

    In Iraq, where unemployment is high for recent grads, students gravitate towards science and math degrees. But, a new program in peace-and-conflict resolution is the first and only of its kind in the country. It teaches students about peace-building. Close to 250 people have enrolled. "For many undergraduates in the new program at Duhok, that means working side by side to create a more inclusive society. “It’s important for people in our society to know how to deal with conflict.”

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