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As female researchers from Latin American countries (one of us now works in the United States, the other in Argentina), we’re used to career obstacles. These range from limited funding to language barriers and the ‘tax’, in terms of time and emotional energy, incurred when under-represented groups in science participate...

The American Cancer Society recognises the link between alcohol and breast cancer, and so does a surgeon general’s report on addiction. The alcohol industry doesn’t dispute it, either. “Many lifestyle choices carry potential risks and the consumption of alcohol is no exception,” a spokesperson for the Distilled Spirits Council wrote...

Imagine trying to tackle Covid-19 with no idea of where it was spreading or how quickly, the mortality risk or the efficacy of treatments and vaccines. That describes the first half of 2020. Countries published intermittent snapshots of the situation. The World Health Organization (WHO) published case numbers in PDFs....

A new global investigation exposing the offshore hideaways of some of the world’s most powerful personalities was launched this week after two years of discreet work by investigative journalists around the world. The project, known as Pandora Papers, is facilitated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which obtained...

A damning report has found that the World Health Organization failed to prevent and tackle widespread sexual abuse during the Ebola response in Congo – a probe triggered by an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation has revealed. WHO staff knew of allegations in early May...

Using a traditional search warrant, the FBI investigators then obtained full geolocation and communication records for some of the suspects’ Google accounts that showed them allegedly travelling to Washington, DC, and admitting in a series of text and picture messages that he had been in the Capitol. One of them...

Court documents suggest the FBI has been using controversial geofence search warrants at a scale not publicly seen before, collecting account information and location data on hundreds of devices inside the US Capitol during a deadly invasion by a right-wing mob on January 6. While Google receives over 10,000 geofence...

Hundreds of journalists working in Afghanistan have fled or gone into hiding in recent weeks following the seizure of power by the Taliban. The leader of one of the IFJ’s affiliates in Afghanistan, who has worked for over 20 years with international media as a reporter and senior editor tells...

African Governments must act fast to ensure their people are fed and avoid conflict the continent cannot afford, Institute for Security Studies Africa (ISS Africa) reports. In its September report, ISS Africa observes that since the onset of Covid-19, global food prices have rocketed, putting pressure on the world’s most...