Eliza Anyangwe

These creators help millions of people talk about bodies, sex and sexuality. Their content is being removed because of it A Dutch artist’s page is suddenly removed, an Indian influencer tries to stay ahead of the algorithm and a pan-African sex-positive account slowly rebuilds its following. Online sex ed content creator...

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"Digital rights experts say posts that are safe and provide genuine educational value regularly get swept up by systems ostensibly designed to catch harmful content, especially when those systems are driven by algorithms."

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‘It’s become the norm.’ Sexual violence in women’s sport and the silence that accompanies it 60% of sportswomen in East Africa have either experienced or witnessed sexual and gender-based violence. A culture of silence, the power of male coaches and difficulty getting justice explain why the ...

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Careers Careers The Fuller Project is an award-winning global newsroom dedicated to publishing groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women. Since 2015, our reporting has helped end life-...

Opened up four roles at @fullerproject.org!

Are you our new health correspondent, tech correspondent, multimedia editor or head of community and audience development?

Applicants from Global South encouraged. Come help us build an audience-centred impact focused newsroom!
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Announcing changes to our newsroom The next step in The Fuller Project's transformation is, in the coming weeks, to open and advertise new editorial roles, such as a Head of Community and correspondent posts, with further roles that al...

This week I announced changes The Fuller Project that will see some members of staff leave the organisation.

I wrote about why this was necessary, and what comes next, in my latest newsletter:
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‘Urgent action is needed to safeguard the lives of women and children’ Kenya received more than 60% of its aid for family planning and reproductive health care from the U.S. Cuts to USAID risk not only lives. They threaten to unravel the entire health-care system

Stawisha Pwani a $47m project, funded by USAID, providing reproductive, maternal & child healthcare, basic nutrition, and treatment for HIV/AIDS.

That's all stopped. Local health officials are scrambling, healthworkers don't know if they'll be paid

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Kenya received more than 60% of its aid for family planning and reproductive health care from the U.S.

Allan connected IATI data to human consequences on the ground, traveling to the Kenyan coast to meet women, community health workers & local policymakers

Loss of life is bad, only made worse by 30-year rollback in access to health due to US cuts & Europeans moving money to defense.

This presents a challenge & opportunity for countries, but who will step up? @allanolingo.bsky.social wrote a complementary story looking at Kenya.

19 African countries received more than half of their family-planning aid from the U.S. This means, while not uniquely so, women and girls around the world - and specifically in Africa - will be particularly hard hit by the aid freeze.

In the first of two stories, we report that when it comes to family planning and reproductive healthcare, the United States was unparalleled in its funding:

US contributed more than half (54%) of aid provided by all countries for family planning & 45% of total for reproductive healthcare in 2023

The U.S. aid freeze: Counting the global cost of chaos As the end date of the Trump administration’s foreign aid ‘stop-work’ order approaches, just how dependent were women and girls around the world on the U.S.? The Fuller Project dives into the data to ...

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@claireprovost.bsky.social worked with @allanolingo.bsky.social Jodi Enda & others to reveal from the data the gendered impact of USAID freeze.

US provided 1/4 of all global aid but much more in 2 key sectors primarily affecting women
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Still at #CSW69? Join me @ @woman_kind’s 12:30 ET event for a lively reflection on Beijing+30*!

*For those who don’t know their feminist history, 14K people attended 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. It was there the concept of ‘human rights’ was applied to women

Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes

Israeli surveillance of Palestinian civilians' private communication used to build 100 billion-word data set to train AI model for military targeting, found to be “invasive and incompatible with human rights”, by Human Rights Watch @hrw.org #DigitalRights
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Black woman with long dreadlocks, silver hoop earrings and a silver necklace, stands against black background, smiling for camera

Messages written in Jan 2023 by Everjoice Win, describing her body as “rebellious.”

Thinking about EJ Win, the Zimbabwean feminist and champion of social justice, who died on 9 March & is being sent off today.

One of the things I loved about Twitter was being able to connect with heroes like EJ who validated me by calling “sister”

Get to know her:
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Nine women journalists will spend International Women's Day behind bars in Azerbaijan Often these women journalists were among those covering the annual March 8 campaigns organized in the capital Baku. This year, they won't be in attendance, nor covering the protests.

Often these women journalists were among those covering the annual March 8 campaigns organized in the capital Baku. This year, they won't be in attendance, nor covering the protests.

"CSW69 is happening [in] context of dwindling funding [&] rise of anti-rights movements. There is a need for strategy, solidarity & solutions"

On Monday, the UN's annual meeting on women's rights, #CSW69, began. @fullerproject.org spoke to leaders about their expectations mailchi.mp/fullerprojec...

“Despite every attempt to block our voices our stories will always live….”

@jamiaawilson.bsky.social speaking about the growing trend of book bannings in the US. On screen: recently banned Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim

Event: @themeteor.bsky.social’s Meet The Moment

How Iran Targets Women Dissidents Abroad From deepfake pornography to relentless online harassment, activists are facing a new form of state repression — one that transcends borders

“You can’t imagine the cyberarmy of the Islamic Republic’s attacks on me. Oh my god, I receive lots of hate.”

Iran’s female diaspora are being subjected to deepfakes, AI, and digital tools to silence them abroad.

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(Bad) Feminism with Roxane Gay Few writers have redefined the boundaries of modern feminist discourse as Roxane Gay. Together with the auteur of internationally acclaimed books as Bad Feminist and Hunger we dissect the intersection...

The world is a shit show and because of it (or inspite of it) I refuse to sit on how delighted I am to be in conversation with @roxanegay.bsky.social at @debalie.bsky.social on March 8

If you don't live in Amsterdam or can't be there, the event will also be livestreamed

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Interview With My Mom, One Who Stayed Home My parents have been married for 40 years, and what they modeled for my brothers and me has shaped so much of who I am. My mom, Nicole, is one of the smartest people I know. She’s also very funny. It…

So sad to hear about the passing of your mom, @roxanegay.bsky.social. Was just reading this interview you did with her in 2013 medium.com/the-hairpin/...

We're so grateful for the way she helped nurture your voice and views. May she rest well.

Trump’s funding freeze puts women’s lives at risk In particular, Trump’s USAID funding freeze could have devastating implications for the sexual and reproductive health of African women.

From maternal deaths to job losses for frontline health workers, as the effects of the 90-day suspension of US development assistance continue to be felt, @fullerproject.org's Allan Olingo outlines five ways women will be "profoundly affected".

Read the latest newsletter
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Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi, shot in Gaza in October 2024, has been denied medical evacuation despite pleas from press and human rights organizations (Thaslima Begum/The Guardian)

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Thaksin under fire for racist jibe Pheu Thai

Not only are these comments from Thailand’s ruling party’s “de facto leader” racist, they show a questionable understanding of biology.

But from Trump to Thaksin, does it ever cost anyone politically to crap on Africans?

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Walter Suskinbrug, a double drawbridge in Amsterdam, outlined with lights on a grey winter’s day

I reckon it’s not too late to say: Happy New Year everyone!

May we choose to stay loving in these hateful times; to cultivate joy in these depressing times…curious and engaged in the face of all that is overwhelming or presumably final/beyond our capacity to change. The world can still be remade.

Last major health facility in north Gaza ‘out of service’ after Israeli attack Gaza officials say staff at Kamal Adwan hospital, including its director, have been detained as WHO reports Israeli forces burned and destroyed key departments

I remember a time when attacks on hospitals in Syria by the Assad regime and its Russian backers were widely (and rightly) condemned as barbaric. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Donate to Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal, organized by Mustafa Ibrahim The War in Sudan has created the World’s largest Humanitarian cris… Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal

Khartoum Aid Kitchen has nearly reached its fundraising target. Help it get there because while a meal can’t make right what has gone so devastatingly wrong in Sudan, it can keep hunger from getting much worse. gofund.me/efae8175

My take on all the Trump genuflection:

Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything.

Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.

Macron swears amid furious exchange with cyclone-hit Mayotte islanders French president makes remark when confronted by residents still without water after huge storm last week

Emperor Macron says to *French citizens* angry at slow post-cyclone relief:

“You are happy to be in France. If this wasn’t France, you’d be in a bath of shit 10,000 times worse. There is no other place in the Indian Ocean where people are helped as much” 😒

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Photograph of passage from Marie Colvin essay in which she says Palestinian politicians “grimly concurred” that “the surprise election of Binyamin Netanhayu…could prove a mortal blow to peace.”

Marie Colvin comes up in discussion about theatre that is western war reporting. I have her collected writings. Flip it open and land on this.

Colvin writing in 1996: Palestinian politicians “grimly concurred” that “the surprise election of Binyamin Netanhayu…could prove a mortal blow to peace.”

UK government announces tender for live facial recognition technology The UK government has published a £20 million procurement for tech companies to provide live facial recognition technology (FRT) to police forces across the UK.

⏰ UK MPs don't know where facial recognition is being used or how it is (or isn't) governed by law. But the government wants to spend £20 million on police facial recognition systems anyway: privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5477/uk-government-announces-tender-live-facial-recognition-technology