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Clár Ní Chonghaile

@clarnic.bsky.social
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EMEA editor at Context Newsroom www.context.news Thomson Reuters Foundation. Author of No Good Deed (2023), The Reckoning (2018), Fractured (2016), Rain Falls on Everyone, (2017). Forever wondering which keys give you fadas.

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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
From paying ransoms to helping victims who have jumped out of buildings; what it's like to rescue #cyber-scam victims. Lin Taylor reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/digital-divi...
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Q&A-'Scammers are winning': Rescuing trafficked cyber-scam victims | Context by TRF
From paying ransoms to helping victims who have jumped out of buildings; what it's like to rescue cyber-scam victims
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Labour rights group calls for compensation scheme after overseas care workers in Britain left in debt and homeless. Emma Batha reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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UK migrant carers 'owed huge sums' in visa scheme 'scandal' | Context by TRF
Labour rights group calls for compensation scheme after overseas care workers in Britain left in debt and homeless
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
As the U.S. halts #student visa interviews, applicants are censoring their #online presence for fear of being denied entry. Bukola Adebayo reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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Foreign students scrub social media as US expands visa vetting | Context by TRF
As the U.S. halts student visa interviews, applicants are censoring their online presence for fear of being denied entry
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
In #Mozambique, millions of children go hungry as #aid cuts, conflict exacerbate drought-fuelled hunger crisis. Samuel Come reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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'No one supports the children' - Hunger plagues Mozambique | Context by TRF
In Mozambique, millions of children go hungry as aid cuts, conflict exacerbate drought-fuelled hunger crisis
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
More than 7.5 million Syrian children need aid with many chronically malnourished. But as needs soar, funding is drying up. Read this piece by Bujar Hoxha, country director for Save The Children #Syria on @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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Syria is changing but its children need international help now | Context by TRF
More than 7.5 million Syrian children need aid with many chronically malnourished. But as needs soar, funding is drying up
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Governments are meeting in France to discuss how to protect oceans from harmful fishing practices, like bottom trawling. But what exactly is that? Beatrice Tridimas has the answers on @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/nature/what-...
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What is bottom trawling and how does it harm oceans? | Context by TRF
Governments are meeting in France to discuss how to protect oceans from harmful fishing practices, like bottom trawling
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Indian #students are plunged into uncertainty after the US pauses #visa interviews. Kunal Purohit reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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Panic and Plan B: How the US visa pause impacts Indian students | Context by TRF
Indian students are plunged into uncertainty after the US pauses visa interviews
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
As global aid dwindles, support centres crucial to #Syrian refugees' return face closure, leaving many without critical assistance. Nazih Osseiran reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Aid cuts 'disaster' in Syria as services axed and refugees return | Context by TRF
As global aid dwindles, support centres crucial to Syrian refugees' return face closure, leaving many without critical assistance
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
As governments deploy #AI to manage borders, citizens should be wary of this tech too, says researcher. Lin Taylor reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/digital-righ...
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Q&A: Algorithms tested on migrants should worry citizens too | Context by TRF
As governments deploy AI to manage borders, citizens should be wary of this tech too, says researcher
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Brazil's conservation mosaics seek to combine regional development with #forest conservation. Andre Cabette Fabio reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social #amazon www.context.news/nature/brazi...
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Brazil bets on conservation "mosaics" to manage its vast forests | Context by TRF
Brazil's conservation mosaics seek to combine regional development with forest conservation
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Girls in Kenya's #Kakuma refugee camp are particularly hard hit by U.S. aid cuts as period supplies run out, food is cut. Farai Shawn Matiashe reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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US aid cuts mean no period pads, no school in Kenyan refugee camp | Context by TRF
Girls in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp are particularly hard hit by U.S. aid cuts as period supplies run out, food is cut
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The Trump administration plans to cut vital #LGBTQ+ services, calling it 'radical gender ideology'. Lucy Middleton reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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LGBTQ+ suicide risk rises as Trump cuts mental health services | Context by TRF
The Trump administration plans to cut vital LGBTQ+ services, calling it 'radical gender ideology'
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Rescued from cyber-scam centres in Southeast Asia, #trafficking survivors find themselves mired in process of getting back home. Rebecca L. Root reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/digital-divi...
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Trafficked cyber scam victims in SE Asia freed but cannot get home | Context by TRF
Rescued from cyber-scam centres in Southeast Asia, trafficking survivors find themselves mired in process of getting back home
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
As seas rise, California coastal communities damaged by #wildfires debate if they should remain on the shoreline. Rachel Parsons reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/climate-risk...
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Rising seas complicate Los Angeles wildfire rebuilding | Context by TRF
As seas rise, California coastal communities damaged by wildfires debate if they should remain on the shoreline.
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Historic focus on #climate and inequality continuing at state, local levels despite #Trump attacks. Carey Biron has the story for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/climate-just...
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Trump rollback on climate justice opens pockets of resistance | Context by TRF
Historic focus on climate and inequality continuing at state, local levels despite Trump attacks
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New people-smuggling rules will worsen criminalisation of #migrants and NGOs trying to help them, rights groups warn. Beatrice Tridimas reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Boat driver arrests intensify as EU set to tighten smuggling laws | Context by TRF
New people-smuggling rules will worsen criminalisation of migrants and NGOs trying to help them, rights groups warn
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
After fleeing sectarian violence at home, Syrian #Alawite refugees eke out a precarious existence in north #Lebanon. Nazih Osseiran reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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In north Lebanon, Syrian Alawites shelter among graves | Context by TRF
After fleeing sectarian violence at home, Syrian Alawite refugees eke out a precarious existence in north Lebanon
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Fires, dust storms, migration and conflict: the deadly chain of consequences from a shrinking #wetland in #Iran. Sanam Mahoozi reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/climate-risk...
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How dried-out wetlands on the Iran-Iraq border threaten the region | Context by TRF
Fires, dust storms, migration and conflict: the deadly chain of consequences from a shrinking wetland in Iran
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
From Sudan to Ukraine, key services for women and girls face closure or major disruption. For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social Lin Taylor spoke to @unwomen.bsky.social's Sofia Calltorp. www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Q&A: Women and girls pay the price for savage aid cuts - UN | Context by TRF
From Sudan to Ukraine, key services for women and girls face closure or major disruption
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New #WHO #pandemic preparedness treaty aims to end stark vaccine and health disparities exposed during COVID. Emma Batha reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social #wha78 www.context.news/money-power-...
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Can pandemic pact avert COVID chaos in next crisis? | Context by TRF
New WHO pandemic preparedness treaty aims to end stark vaccine and health disparities exposed during COVID
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Global #hunger monitor FEWS NET funded by U.S. government is now operating at reduced capacity, undermining humanitarian efforts. Nelson Renteria and Nita Bhalla report for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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Global hunger monitor faces 'large gap' after US aid cuts | Context by TRF
Global hunger monitor FEWS NET funded by U.S. government operating at reduced capacity, undermining humanitarian efforts
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#Syria's small business owners stock up after Trump's #sanctions move, hoping for more customers and easier access to cash. Nazih Osseiran reports from Damascus for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Syrian businesses dare to dream after Trump vow on sanctions | Context by TRF
Syria's small business owners stock up after Trump's sanctions move, hoping for more customers and easier access to cash
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Refugee advocates say it is indefensible to remove protections for #Afghans who risked their lives for the U.S. Emma Batha and Orooj Hakimi report for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Afghans in US feel betrayed as Trump ends deportation protection | Context by TRF
Refugee advocates say it is indefensible to remove protections for Afghans who risked their lives for the U.S.
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A projected 8 million #deepfakes will be shared worldwide in 2025, risking a romance scam explosion. Read one woman's story on @contextnewsroom.bsky.social Story by @kimharrisberg.bsky.social and @adamndsmith.com www.context.news/ai/deep-love...
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Deep love or deepfake? Dating in the time of AI | Context by TRF
A projected 8 million deepfakes will be shared worldwide in 2025, risking a romance scam explosion
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
#Britain ends recruitment of foreign care workers as sector struggles to fill vacancies amid ageing population. #migration #careworkers Lin Taylor reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Why does Britain need migrant care workers? | Context by TRF
Britain ends recruitment of foreign care workers as sector struggles to fill vacancies amid ageing population
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
'TB champions' are a key plank in India's programme to end #tuberculosis, but their work has stalled with the halt in #USAID funding. Swagata Yadavar reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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US aid freeze leaves TB survivors in India 'high and dry' | Context by TRF
'TB champions' are a key plank in India's programme to end tuberculosis, but their work has stalled with the halt in USAID funding
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Although #Poland could elect a liberal president on May 18, women say a change to the #abortion law is unlikely despite years of protest. Ada Petriczko reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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"Sculpting within the law': Where does Poland stand on abortion? | Context by TRF
Although Poland could elect a liberal president on May 18, women say a change to the abortion law is unlikely despite years of protest
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#USAID cuts may push desperate #Syrian refugees into further debt, prostitution to survive, UN warns. Nazih Osseiran reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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No milk, no diapers - US aid cuts hit Syrian refugees in Lebanon | Context by TRF
USAID cuts may push desperate Syrian refugees into further debt, prostitution to survive, UN warns
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Most bills are expected to fall but advocates say their very existence unleashes new vitriol against #LGBTQ+ Americans. @enriqueanartelazo.bsky.social reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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US states target trans in slew of anti LGBTQ+ bills | Context by TRF
Most bills are expected to fall but advocates say their very existence unleashes new vitriol against LGBTQ+ Americans
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Scores of Africans were killed in an airstrike in #Yemen in April, spotlighting a dangerous, often overlooked #migration route. Nita Bhalla reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Forgotten migrants: Africans risking lives in war-hit Yemen | Context by TRF
Scores of Africans were killed in an airstrike in Yemen in April, spotlighting a dangerous, often overlooked migration route
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
An old tourist map from 2011, reminders of the past and images of destruction in today's #Gaza. From @reuters.com www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...
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Gaza's lost cultural and historic landmarks
Discover the impact of ongoing conflict on Gaza's rich cultural heritage. Explore Gaza's historic landmarks and the widespread devastation and cultural loss caused by war.
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Los Angeles #wildfire fallout prompts county to offer free blood tests over fears of #lead contamination among local residents. Rachel Parsons reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/climate-risk...
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After LA wildfires, lead contamination threatens residents | Context by TRF
Los Angeles wildfire fallout prompts county to offer free blood tests over fears of lead contamination among local residents
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Despite the U.S. #climate retreat and the risk of forest arson, the chief executive of #COP30 sees the transition to sustainability as inevitable. Andre Cabette Fabio sat down with Ana Toni for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/nature/q-and...
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Q&A: Brazil's COP30 CEO on Trump’s impact and forest arson | Context by TRF
Despite the U.S. climate retreat and the risk of forest arson, the chief executive of COP30 sees the transition to sustainability as inevitable
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Activists have opened Poland's first abortion centre, offering support in a country where the procedure is virtually outlawed. Ada Petriczko reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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‘We are done waiting': Inside Poland's first abortion centre | Context by TRF
Activists have opened Poland's first abortion centre, offering support in a country where the procedure is virtually outlawed
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Q&A: 'For the past two months, not a single pill has entered #Gaza, not a single grain of rice'- Red Crescent Read Nazih Osseiran's interview with the head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society on @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Q&A: No fuel, no food, only fear in Gaza, says Red Crescent head | Context by TRF
After 15 aid workers were killed, head of Palestine Red Crescent Society says his people are scared but determined to keep working
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Technological innovations like robots and biometric recognition are in expanding use in Trump's #deportation campaign. Aaron Mak reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/surveillance...
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What tech is Trump using to ramp up deportations? | Context by TRF
Technological innovations like robots and biometric recognition are in expanding use in Trump's deportation campaign
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thousands of volunteers are testing the UK's #waterways, providing data to drive solutions and pursue polluters. @adamndsmith.com reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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Can citizen scientists help clean up UK's troubled waters? | Context by TRF
Thousands of volunteers are testing the UK's waterways, providing data to drive solutions and pursue polluters
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Tens of thousands of #Bangladeshi farmers are being trained to farm on soils getting saltier due to climate change. Rachel Parsons reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/climate-risk...
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How is Bangladesh preparing farmers for increasingly salty soil? | Context by TRF
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi farmers are being trained to farm on soils getting saltier due to climate change
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Renewed violence and security measures in India's #Kashmir region are hitting tourism, a key source of income for the local economy. Mehran Firdous reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Kashmir's youth worry about future as recent attack hits tourism | Context by TRF
Renewed violence and security measures in India's Kashmir region is hitting tourism, a key source of income for the local economy
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
European countries host the most child sexual abuse content online, but proposed rules to protect victims and identify perpetrators have stalled. @jogill.bsky.social has the story for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social #csam www.context.news/big-tech/in-...
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In Data: What's behind Europe's online child sex abuse dilemma? | Context by TRF
European countries host the most child sexual abuse content online, but proposed rules to protect victims and identify perpetrators have stalled
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#Kenya plans to turn the Dadaab and Kakuma #refugee camps into open cities. But LGBTQ+ refugees say their needs are being ignored. Jackson Okata has the story for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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LGBTQ+ refugees say Kenya's reform plan risks leaving them out | Context by TRF
Kenya plans to turn the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps into open cities. But LGBTQ+ refugees say their needs are being ignored
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"We need innovative solutions to allow small island nations to manage debt and build climate resilience." Emily Wilkinson, director of RESI and Amb. Ali Naseer Mohamed, Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the U.N. write for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/climate-risk...
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How to defuse the climate-debt time bomb for small island states | Context by TRF
We need innovative solutions to allow small island nations to manage debt and build climate resilience as global funding declines
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Organisations in Mexico working with migrants forced to limit operations as U.S. foreign aid cuts leave thousands stranded. Diana Baptista has the story for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Trump aid cuts slash help for migrants stuck in Mexico | Context by TRF
Organisations in Mexico working with migrants forced to limit operations as U.S. foreign aid cuts leave thousands stranded
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As global demand for recycling in the fashion industry grows, #textile hub #Bangladesh is pushed to rethink how it handles waste. Md. Tahmid Zami reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/just-transit...
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Textile giant Bangladesh pushed to recycle more waste | Context by TRF
As global demand for recycling in the fashion industry grows, textile hub Bangladesh is pushed to rethink how it handles waste
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The papal conclave is preparing to select a new #pope, but how could this affect the Church's relationship with #LGBTQ+ faithful? Lucy Middleton reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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How could the next Pope influence global LGBTQ+ rights? | Context by TRF
The papal conclave is preparing to select a new pope, but how could this affect the Church's relationship with LGBTQ+ faithful?
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
International aid topped $212 billion in 2024, but is set to plummet as Trump takes an axe to the U.S. aid budget. Emma Batha breaks down the latest #OECD numbers for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/money-power-...
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In data: Which countries fund global aid and how much do they pay? | Context by TRF
Contributions topped $212 billion in 2024, but are set to plummet as Trump takes an axe to the U.S. aid budget
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
With aid funding falling and climate change accelerating, we must protect #nutrition programmes or risk losing long-term gains, writes Afshan Khan, Coordinator of @scalingupnutrition.org and U.N. Assistant Secretary-General on @contextnewsroom.bsky.social today. www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Nutrition can be golden thread for fragile aid system | Context by TRF
With aid funding falling and climate change accelerating, we must protect nutrition programmes or risk losing long-term gains
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Historic changes under debate regarding #Medicaid threaten healthcare for tens of millions in U.S. Carey Biron reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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Medicaid cuts debate strikes fear in US Black, Hispanic homes | Context by TRF
Historic changes under debate regarding Medicaid threaten healthcare for tens of millions in U.S.
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Around one million Haitians, many of them children, have been forced to flee their homes as gang violence rages in the Caribbean nation. Joseph Guyler Delva reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social #haiti www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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In Haiti, homeless children struggle as gang violence surges | Context by TRF
Some one million Haitians, many of them children, have been forced to flee their homes as gang violence rages in Caribbean nation
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Clár Ní Chonghaile @clarnic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Africa's renewable energy push has been slowed by Trump's USAID funding cuts to power projects. @kimharrisberg.bsky.social reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.context.news/just-transit...
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USAID cuts hurt debated energy plans in Africa | Context by TRF
Africa's renewable energy push slowed by Trump's USAID funding cuts to power projects
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