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  Forced to relocate miles from her children’s kindergarten, Halima Farah, an intelligent, resilient and resourceful woman, has been working to find a solution for her family. But she faces a lack of support from those entrusted with her welfare, violence and intimidation from building management, and bureaucratic delays at […]

Since social media has heralded the era of post-factual truth, digital propaganda climbed onto the stage. And the bad news is – it’s here to stay, so we better learn how to expose it. Since always politics and propaganda are walking side by side. Propaganda used  as tool to convey […]

I went to Indonesia feeling curious. I did my reading before the event. Indonesia had problems in the past. It has problems now too. Water scarcity, for example. According to 2015 World Bank statistics – nearly 50% of population don’t have access to safe water, and more than 70 percent […]

Hoaxes, fake videos and image manipulations are nightmares for every journalist. Since citizen media – so called eyewitness videos or photos, floats the social media sphere, you cannot simply trust what you see. Here’s how to keep a cool head when filtering news from noise.   Does anyone remember the […]

The Youth Global Forum is a unique event, which will gather together more than 150 participants from all over the world in Jakarta, Indonesia. The aim is to come up with the solutions for the most prevalent issues. The topic of the annually organized event is related to the location […]

The UK has decided to leave the European Union. The EU itself has now far more ‘far right’ xenophobic parties in the European parliament than ever before in its history. On the back of very virulent xenophobia, Trump, otherwise a sideshow freak in the branding/entertainment industry, is now a presidential contender in the […]