Eliza Anyangwe
@elizatalks.bsky.social
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Editor-in-Chief at The Fuller Project: journalism that catalyses change for women & gender minorities | Care deeply about stories: telling new ones, how we tell them, who gets to tell them, how they connect to, inform and serve audiences.
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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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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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‘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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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.”
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"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...
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“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
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“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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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
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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".

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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.
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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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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?

www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/pol...
Thaksin under fire for racist jibe
Pheu Thai
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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.
Walter Suskinbrug, a double drawbridge in Amsterdam, outlined with lights on a grey winter’s day