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Africa | Uganda | Environment

Women in Uganda Can’t Use Toilets Without Fear of Disease or Rape

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Mary Businge was in the doctor's seat, diagnosing a patient, when the municipal workers arrived. They were in a foul mood as they rolled up their sleeves and descended into a trench filled with sewage. The trench, stretching across the Nankulabye slum in Uganda's capital city Kampala, was where the slum's roughly 40,000 residents dropped their waste: discarded cans, torn shoes, playing cards, cigarette butts, documents, sanitary napkins, and bags containing feces. When it rained, the acrid water rose like a breathing thing, and so the city government sent their workers to empty the trench.
International | Environment

Sylvia Earle: There’s Still Time to Save the Oceans

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The legendary oceanographer talks about why she crisscrosses the globe to protect marine life Pioneering oceanographer Sylvia Earle’s lifelong affinity for the ocean began early. “When I was three years old I got knocked over by a wave, and the ocean got my attention,” she told me at DOER Marine, the ocean technology company in Alameda, California, that she founded. It’s held her attention ever since. A former chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and current National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, Earle has led dozens of deep-sea missions
International | Culture

10 Incredible Facts You Need to Know About Women Around the World

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Last week, legions of powerful women gathered in one room in New York at the sixth annual Women in the World Summit, bringing together activists, artists, peacemakers, entrepreneurs and dissidents from all over the world to discuss the most pressing phenomena they regularly face and how they're fighting for change. Here are 10 of the most shocking facts raised during the convening that every woman should know. 1. #BringBackOurGirls did not, in fact, bring back our girls. 2. The care industry is huge and dominated by women — but largely unpaid. 3. Thousands of Ugandan girls were abdu
Asia | Thailand | Corruption

Thai environmentalists pay for activism with their lives

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Jintana Kaewkao, a 53-year-old activist, shop-owner and mother of three, arrived at the district government office on March 12 ready for a fight. With local tensions rising over the planned construction of a steel manufacturing plant amid the wetlands and coconut trees of this seaside community of Bangsaphan, Thailand, more than 30 villagers had assembled in the morning heat. Most were women; some had toddlers in tow. They were ready to register their concerns over potential pollution, and a local conglomerate’s questionable land acquisitions, with the district leader. As usual, they w
International | Culture

Patriarchy is killing our planet – women alone can save her

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The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man's violent exploitation of Earth and her resources, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The fight to save the Earth must begin with the empowerment of women - and that means ending our complicity in their oppression, and servitude. The systemic marginalization and repression of women is not an accidental feature of our civilizational crisis. It is an integral and fundamental pillar of the pervasive injustice of the global system. The global epidemic of violence toward women
International | Crimes

14 Women Sailed to Sea to Investigate Plastic’s Toxic Impact on Hormones

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Last November, an all-woman team set out to sail the Atlantic, collecting samples of seawater and plastics as they went. They travelled from Lanzarote to Martinique over three weeks, some of them barely having stepped on a boat before. Their mission, which they named Exxp​edition, was to shine a light on several “unseens”: the unseen plastics and chemica​ls polluting the oceans; the unseen women vastly underrepresented in science and adventure; and the unseen research on women-specific diseases, which they feel has a low public profile. Some studies have shown that we have ove

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