From the most playful topics to the most serious, these platforms provide alternative coverage of current affairs – with a feminist lens.
Marcha del 8M en Argentina, 2018. Foto: Belén Altamirano/Wikimedia. CC S-A 4.0.
22 August 2018 (openDemocracy)* – Women around the world are using the internet to express opinions and discuss topics about which, historically, they haven’t been heard.
22 August 2018 (FAO)* – Youth around the world are increasingly turning away from agriculture. Traditionally requiring tough manual labour and offering low wages, agriculture does not often appeal to new generations who generally prefer to try their luck finding jobs in cities.
22 August 2018 (Norwegian Refugee Council)* – Aid funding for refugee relief is running out while conditions are still not in place for the safe return of over 700,000 people forced to flee Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh after violence broke out one year ago, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Janoara fled from Myanmar in late August 2017 after the military attacked her village, killed her grandfather and torched her house. She only managed to grab her two sons, Saifula (8) and Mohammed Hossein (3) and run for safety. She struggles to get enough food to feed her children. Photo: Ingebjørg Kårstad/NRC
The mass human exodus of refugees from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, which started on 25 August 2017, was one of the fastest growing refugee crises last year.
15 August, 2018 (UN Women)* – Giang Thi So remembers the day her childhood ended as if it were just yesterday. “I was on the way home from the market fair when my husband kidnapped me. I spent all night crying in his house. I did not know him before that day, but I knew I would have to marry him. I was just 15.”
Giang Thi So’s daughter-in-law stands before her home, where she lives in with her husband, their two children and Mrs. So. She married Mrs. So’s youngest son at age 18 and couldn’t afford to go to school after her primary education. Photo: UN Viet Nam/Thao Hoang
22 August 2018 (Sputnik)* — Some of the thickest Arctic sea ice has begun breaking up, revealing open sea that is typically always frozen, indicating that Arctic ice may even more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has announced new rollbacks on power plant pollution regulations.
Before 2018, scientists at the Norwegian Ice Service had never recorded the sea ice north of Greenland breaking up in summer; it’s already happened twice this year.
The minimum rate for pensions in Argentina only covers 40 percent of pensioners’ basic needs.
After last year’s pension reform the purchasing power of the lowest pensions has an accumulated regression of 8.58 percent. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
21 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — Argentina’s ombudsman for senior citizens, Eugenio Semino, said Monday [20 August 2018] that seven out of every ten senior citizens with a pension are unable to cover their basic expenses.
With the situation worsening according to Semino since the rate of pension increases currently lag behind rising inflation.
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© AP Photo / David Goldman | Photo from Sputnik. 
