https://sabrina.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for enFri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/68640On March 22, the International Labor Organization (ILO) moved to give Qatar until November to reform its laws governing migrant labor. This builds on an ongoing investigation following a complaint lodged with the ILO in 2016 that workers are drawn into “forced labor.” The ILO will determine if Qatar’s labor laws contravene the forced labor convention, which Qatar ratified in 1998, possibly subjecting the Gulf state to scrutiny by a commission of inquiry. With the international renown of the 2022Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/68640https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/lakhdar-boumediene-guantanamo-book-witnesses-of-the-unseen/Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir were part of the “Algerian Six,” a group of men rounded up in Bosnia on the unproven claim they had plotted to bomb the American Embassy in Sarajevo. The two were beaten, shackled, blindfolded, and transferred in January 2002 to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base—where they languished for seven years without charges under torturous conditions. Boumediene went on a 28-month hunger strike and was force-fed through a broken nose. The strike, he told me, “was the oFri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/05/lakhdar-boumediene-guantanamo-book-witnesses-of-the-unseen/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/adjusting-new-lives-chicago-s-rohingya-find-ways-aid-those-n809531When Nasir Bin Zakaria arrived in Chicago in 2013, there were just around 300 Rohingya families in the city from his native Myanmar, also known as Burma. He said the word Rohingya drew blank stares from Americans he encountered. “If you asked anyone in the United States: ‘Do you know who the Rohingya are?’ No one did,” Zakaria told NBC News. “People would ask ‘No, what does it mean?’” There are now approximately 1,500 Rohingya living in Chicago’s north side, according to the Rohingya Culture CFri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/adjusting-new-lives-chicago-s-rohingya-find-ways-aid-those-n809531https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/pakistan-journalists-violence.phpWhen freelance journalist Umer Ali traveled to the city of Pattoki in eastern Pakistan to attend a hearing for Nabeel Masih in December 2016, he knew the scene would be tense, and possibly dangerous. Masih, 17 years old, had been accused of blasphemy—a crime that can carry the death penalty in Pakistan. Outside the courtroom, a mob of at least 30 had gathered to ensure that a harsh punishment would be delivered to the young man, whose charge was liking an allegedly offensive Facebook post featuFri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/pakistan-journalists-violence.phphttps://theworld.org/stories/2018-05-31/pakistani-hazaras-face-constant-threat-targeted-violence-many-say-securityWhen Jalila Haider, a Hazara lawyer and human rights activist, returned to her hometown Quetta in southwestern Pakistan last month, her mother thrust a video in front of her. In it, two Hazara shopkeepers, Jaffar and Muhammad Ali, had been gunned down and family members were wailing around the corpses. In an act that would gain national attention, Haider, gripped by anger, announced a hunger strike on Facebook to protest the wanton killings of Hazaras, a Shiite minority community spread betweenFri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://theworld.org/stories/2018-05-31/pakistani-hazaras-face-constant-threat-targeted-violence-many-say-securityhttps://sabrina.journoportfolio.com/articles/vox-creative-museum-of-modern-ads/I copy-edited the text for this interactive on the Museum of Modern Ads, which walks viewers through a history of advertising through a 360° illustrated exhibit.Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://sabrina.journoportfolio.com/articles/vox-creative-museum-of-modern-ads/https://www.vox.com/museumofmodernadsThe Future Is Here Advertising is changing in front of our very eyes. Explore the many ways we interact with advertising in the videos and articles below.Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.vox.com/museumofmodernadshttps://www.vox.com/climate/24006471/cop28-rising-danger-environmental-activismThis story is part of a Vox series examining how the climate crisis is impacting communities around the world, as the 28th annual United Nations conference on climate change (COP28) unfolds. Every winter, northwest of Mexico City, the branches of the Oyamel fir trees ignite in orange, colored by the wings of monarch butterflies that have made the epic journey south from Canada and the United States. The forest is home to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, created by presidential decree iWed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.vox.com/climate/24006471/cop28-rising-danger-environmental-activismhttps://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/23999825/mindfulness-meditation-jon-kabat-zinn-the-gray-areaCapitalism has a way of hijacking our culture’s best ideas. Regardless of the domain, industry turns almost every promising movement into a product. Mindfulness meditation is an interesting example of this phenomenon. The number of Americans who’ve tried meditation has tripled since 2012, which, on the surface at least, seems like a great thing. And in many ways, it is a great thing: Mindfulness meditation encourages people to cultivate a deeper connection with themselves and the world. But haTue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/23999825/mindfulness-meditation-jon-kabat-zinn-the-gray-areahttps://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/accidental-spies-amazon-ring-owners-may-be-unknowingly-emailing-policeAn investigation by The Markup found that Ring’s social platform funnels suspicions from residents in Whiter and wealthier areas of Los Angeles directly to police By Lam Thuy Vo This article was copublished with the Los Angeles Times and AfroLA. This series was made possible through support from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Ed Dorini’s house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac that snakes its way up a hill in the Sun Valley area, one of Los Angeles’s northernmost corners. It’s Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/accidental-spies-amazon-ring-owners-may-be-unknowingly-emailing-policehttps://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/amazons-neighborhood-watch-might-be-turning-police-officers-into-reddit-moderatorsOver 18 months, one LAPD officer received more than 10,000 emails from the social platform affiliated with Amazon’s Ring By Lam Thuy Vo This article was copublished with the Los Angeles Times, Insider, and AfroLA. This series was made possible through support from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. September 23, 2021, was a busy day in Jeffry Poole’s inbox. The detective with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) started receiving emails about alleged crimes at 3:30 a.m. that Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/amazons-neighborhood-watch-might-be-turning-police-officers-into-reddit-moderatorshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/latino-texas-guns-ownersOn a crisp Sunday afternoon in Royse City, Texas, 32-year-old Cesar Hurtado unzipped a hardshell case to reveal a custom-built AR-15-style rifle in his living room. Emblazoned on the side of the gun is the tagline “no war, no gods, no masters”. Hurtado’s interest in firearms started with hunting, but after the 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso that targeted Latinos, Hurtado felt he had to embrace firearms for his own protection. “For white gun owners, they feel they have a right to a gun,” HurtaMon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/latino-texas-guns-ownershttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/local-food-marketing-us-supermarketsIf you walk into a Whole Foods in Oakland and pick up a container of non-dairy yoghurt marked “local”, you might be surprised to learn that though the company is headquartered nearby in San Francisco, the cashews the yoghurt is made of come from Vietnam, more than 7,500 miles (12,000km) away, or Ivory Coast, about 7,300 miles in the opposite direction. This yoghurt made with ingredients from the other side of the globe points to the contradictory nature of so-called local food today: though theMon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/local-food-marketing-us-supermarketshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/somaliland-frankincense-industry-women-owned-businessEvery morning, Luul Siciid Jaamac starts her day with a cup of tea and the burning of frankincense. She says she breathes in the incense to relieve her back and joint aches, hard-earned from a lifetime of sorting frankincense resin in Somaliland. The woodsy, piney scent is sweet – and lately, so is victory. Jaamac used to sort frankincense resin for an allegedly exploitative company named Asli Maydi, which supplied frankincense to doTERRA, a major US essential oils company that generates more Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/somaliland-frankincense-industry-women-owned-businesshttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/09/argentina-1985-luis-moreno-ocampo-oscars-interviewA lifetime spent putting mass murderers behind bars has not shaken Luis Moreno Ocampo’s conviction that if given the proper communication tools, humanity can overcome hatred. “It’s about people, about continuing to build civilization – if not, we’re just tribes with atomic weapons,” the former international prosecutor says in a Zoom interview from his home in Malibu, California. Moreno Ocampo not only helped jail the bloody generals of his native country’s 1976-83 military regime – a historiThu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/09/argentina-1985-luis-moreno-ocampo-oscars-interviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/08/biased-ai-algorithms-racy-women-bodiesImages posted on social media are analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that decide what to amplify and what to suppress. Many of these algorithms, a Guardian investigation has found, have a gender bias, and may have been censoring and suppressing the reach of countless photos featuring women’s bodies. These AI tools, developed by large technology companies, including Google and Microsoft, are meant to protect users by identifying violent or pornographic visuals so that social medWed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/08/biased-ai-algorithms-racy-women-bodieshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/02/medical-deserts-texas-women-healthcare?CMP=share_btn_twWhen Claudia Salazar and her family migrated to San Elizario, Texas, a small city in El Paso county, they settled into a colonia – informal, low-income housing often found in rural parts along the US-Mexico border. Their house was small, but had enough room for her four kids, and before long, it felt like home. But the remoteness of their new home soon presented problems – Salazar suddenly found herself in a medical desert. The nearest hospital is a 35-minute drive away. Even that is challenginThu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/02/medical-deserts-texas-women-healthcare?CMP=share_btn_twhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/07/somaliland-frankincense-female-workers-exploited-abuse“I’m not speaking metaphorically – a bottle of doTERRA essential oil can change the world,” says David Stirling, a mild, clean-cut, middle-aged man. His largely female audience cheers and whistles, as if for a celebrity. Stirling, then CEO and co-founder of doTERRA, a Utah-based multi-level marketing company that sells essential oils, is making his opening remarks in September 2021 to the packed Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City. In a setting reminiscent of a megachurch, Stirling’Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/07/somaliland-frankincense-female-workers-exploited-abusehttps://www.theengineroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/DDR-Report-26-02-22.pdfI copy-edited the 65-page report from the U.K. nonprofit The Engine Room called "Strengthening Intersectional Approaches to Data and Digital Rights Advocacy During the Pandemic."Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theengineroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/DDR-Report-26-02-22.pdfhttps://restofworld.org/series/how-to-buy/How to buy dollars in Beirut Goods in Lebanon are often priced in dollars, but getting access to hard currency is difficult. Many people turn to black market money changers operating on WhatsApp.Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://restofworld.org/series/how-to-buy/https://restofworld.org/2022/indias-edtech-startups-fail-to-regulate-themselves/Ankit Brodiya, a 24-year-old techie from New Delhi, signed up his brother and nephew for an engineering prep course on Byju’s, paying a registration fee of 15,000 rupees (around $189) 0n June 8 after being chased by telesales executives of the world’s largest edtech firm for months. “I wasn’t convinced about it, but I thought of giving it a shot,” he told Rest of World. During the 15-day trial period, the two students found the classes unsatisfactory and logged a request for cancellation within Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://restofworld.org/2022/indias-edtech-startups-fail-to-regulate-themselves/https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/calm-vs-headspace-which-is-best-for-your-privacy-security/Like many meditation apps, Calm collects personally identifiable information like geolocation data, sensitive biometric data and health data. Headspace also obtains personal data like a user’s name, email address, app usage, and their Facebook account ID. Both Headspace and Calm do not track precise locations. The apps say they rely on IP addresses to determine an approximate location, with Headspace saying that it relies on a user’s geolocation instead of their exact longitude or latitude. HeaThu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/calm-vs-headspace-which-is-best-for-your-privacy-security/https://time.com/6181167/neelam-patil-innovative-teachers-2022/Last November, elementary schoolers in Berkeley, California gathered around a plot of land carpeted with shrubs to plant saplings like buckeye, white sage, and honeysuckle to increase the number of trees at their schools. Neelam Patil, who teaches science at Cragmont and Oxford Elementary schools, showed students at three schools in Berkeley Unified School District how to plant Miyawaki forests, or dense, biodiverse micro-forests that were first popularized by the late Japanese botanist Akira MiWed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://time.com/6181167/neelam-patil-innovative-teachers-2022/https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigation/2021/12/2/how-Bangladesh-is-beating-the-odds-on-climate-disaster-deathsCyclones, floods, droughts. An increasing number of humanitarian crises are being driven by climate change, and it’s often the world’s most vulnerable who are hardest hit. But what if high risk countries were also leading the way by implementing a raft of best practices when it comes to disaster risk reduction? We set out to answer this question in an investigation that spanned six months. One of our findings? Some high-risk countries with struggling economies pack a punch when it comes to lowerWed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigation/2021/12/2/how-Bangladesh-is-beating-the-odds-on-climate-disaster-deathshttps://restofworld.org/2021/the-global-gig-workers/In Seoul, food delivery apps compete to get your meal to you at “bullet speed,” sending drivers like Jang Hyuk hurtling across the city, racing against the clock on routes pre-planned by an algorithm. It’s the same in Bogotá, where Venezuelan migrant Lisandro Linarez braves the weather, the crime, and the occasional angry dog for $9 a day, if he’s lucky, working for delivery super app Rappi. Digitally-mediated gig work has surged over the past decade. The International Labor Organization counteTue, 21 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://restofworld.org/2021/the-global-gig-workers/https://www.thejuggernaut.com/south-asian-eyebrow-threading-salonsWhen Swathi Balaji grips a thin thread of cotton and sweeps it across a customer’s arched eyebrows, Balaji loves to tell her clients, “There’s a tear gland right under the eyebrow. You might cry, but that’s not from pain.” Threading is a popular method of hair removal that originates in South Asia and the Middle East. Threading artists, like Balaji, twist narrow strings of cotton to grab and remove hair from the follicles. Growing up in New Jersey, Balaji is now a Manhattan-based business ownerWed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://www.thejuggernaut.com/south-asian-eyebrow-threading-salonshttps://time.com/6091056/afghanistan-refugees-pakistan/When the Taliban first waved the flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan over Kabul in 1996, Syed Nasir’s parents — worried about imminent violence — hastily fled to neighboring Pakistan, where they settled in the port city of Karachi. Like many Afghans, they expected to return home once the instability ebbed. But, the Taliban’s brutal rule, followed by the instability of the U.S. invasion and ongoing insurgency meant that Nasir’s family — and many others — stayed in Pakistan. Now, 25 years Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://time.com/6091056/afghanistan-refugees-pakistan/https://www.teachforamerica.org/one-day/ideas-and-solutions/students-work-to-help-their-communities-and-their-own-mental-health“It's important to recognize that we are in a period of trauma—and that trauma stays with us,” said Sheldon Berman, the lead superintendent for social-emotional learning at the School Superintendents Association. Although many students are preparing to return to in-person instruction this fall, the pandemic also precipitated new mental health challenges, including increased rates of stress, anxiety, and depression. Simultaneously, the pandemic increased physical barriers to accessing mental heaWed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://www.teachforamerica.org/one-day/ideas-and-solutions/students-work-to-help-their-communities-and-their-own-mental-healthhttps://www.teachforamerica.org/one-day/policy-and-advocacy/students-labeled-asian-are-not-a-monolith-why-are-schools-treating-them“Folks didn’t really know what a Tongan was, what a Polynesian was. They didn’t know what to make of us,” Hafoka, now 39, recalled. Hafoka grew up in a community that was home to many families from Southeast Asia, and being grouped together with first-generation Asians seemed logical, she said. The two groups seemed to share similar challenges caused by language barriers, such as children translating English for their parents, Hafoka said. But “when I grew up, I started to understand how messeWed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://www.teachforamerica.org/one-day/policy-and-advocacy/students-labeled-asian-are-not-a-monolith-why-are-schools-treating-themhttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/08/pandemic-of-patriarchy-pakistani-women-defy-threats-to-hold-marchA march during the time of Covid is a difficult thing to plan safely. For Pakistan’s women, determined to have their “Aurat March” today, there are other risks – to their physical safety as well as of online abuse and trolling. Noor is an organiser for this year’s masked nationwide rallies. She said she could not give her surname for fear of reprisals over her work. “The pandemic has hindered mobilisation significantly,” said Noor, who added that the closure of public transport alone has been Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/08/pandemic-of-patriarchy-pakistani-women-defy-threats-to-hold-march