Journalism Matters
500 news organizations mark World News Day by demonstrating the power of journalism to make a difference. Take a look at the following reports and features that are making an impact in an increasingly complex and uncertain world:
La Voz de la Frontera: Búsqueda de desaparecidos, labor compuesta por mujeres
Los colectivos de búsqueda de personas desaparecidas están compuestos en más de un 90% por mujeres.
Son madres, hijas, hermanas y esposas las que se arman de palas, picos y varillas para buscar hasta por debajo de la tierra.
El Sol de la Laguna: Allende guarda silencio tras la venganza de Los Zetas
ALLENDE, Coahuila.- Sólo fincas abandonadas y destruidas y el silencio autoimpuesto de los habitantes de Allende queda luego de la masacre perpetrada en esta ciudad del norte de México hace ya más de una década por Los Zetas, en una venganza contra un soplón.
The Daily Star: Deadly yet taken lightly
People in Bangladesh every day inhale an alarming amount of black carbon, a particle not only harmful for human health but also responsible for global warming. But it is hardly monitored in the country though there is a national action plan in place since 2018.
The Daily Star: Personal Data Protection Law: Door ajar for misuse
In a forward-looking move, the government has set out to form a law for personal data protection fashioned on the EU’s momentous General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as it looks to make Bangladesh fit for the digital age.
El Sol de México: Ambientalistas en la mira
Durante 2021 en México se registraron 25 asesinatos y más de 238 ataques a defensores del medio ambiente, con lo que el país ya es el segundo más inseguro del mundo para los ambientalistas.
The Globe and Mail: Nunavut admits to large tuberculosis outbreak in Pangnirtung months later
Pangnirtung, a small hamlet on Baffin Island, is grappling with the largest tuberculosis outbreak in Nunavut since 2017, according to data the territorial government released on Thursday after refusing for months to reveal the extent of the disease’s spread.
VnExpress: Survivors recall do or die experiences after karaoke parlor fire
“Either jump or die,” Phuc told himself on turning around to see a blaze sweeping through the glass window of the restroom he was standing inside. From the ventilator window of the restroom, he tried to locate the metal roof of the house next door and jumped down. That decision saved his life.
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Unfinished schools: how can the problem be avoided?
Transparência Brasil carried out a study on abandoned Ministry of Education works and concluded that there were many failures in the Proinfância program.
The Daily Star: How did a bike accident become an extortion case?
A simple motorbike accident by a teenage boy in the capital’s Mirpur has been turned into an extortion case against eight school and college students for reasons the victim, his family and witnesses cannot explain.
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Unfinished daycare centers: what families who have nowhere to leave their children have to say
Just over half of the 1,800 daycare centers provided for in the federal government’s Proinfância program in Rio Grande do Sul were completed after 10 years.
National Post: Exclusive study reveals increasing use of publication bans in Canada
An investigation of discretionary publication bans requested during the past two years across four Canadian provinces shows a 25 per cent increase from one year to the next.
The Daily Star: Where do the ‘disappeared’ disappear to?
“How are our loved ones? Are they being tortured? Are they alive?” These questions haunt the family members of the victims of enforced disappearance as they spend agonising weeks, months and years, holding out hope against all odds. On condition of anonymity, five such survivors spoke to The Daily Star (Bangladesh) to answer the questions most pertinently asked by their loved ones.