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A New Year Means the Same Problems for Migrants in Calais
We spent New Year’s Eve with refugees who still hold out hope that they will successfully cross the English Channel, despite persistent bullying by the police.
In Myanmar, a Nonprofit Icon Enjoyed Foreign Funding Despite Allegations of Sexual Abuse
The alleged failure by the US embassy and a UN agency to prevent abuses reflects systemic gaps in safeguarding mechanisms, that are common within local nonprofits in the developing world.
This Queer Journalist Wants to Unite Human Rights Defenders
After facing deportation from Russia to Uzbekistan, where homosexuality is illegal, Ali Feruz set up a new media network to support journalists covering LGBTQ issues in post-Soviet states.
The Entrepreneur Trying to Democratize Law with a Free Chatbot
Joshua Browder created DoNotPay to help people fight parking tickets, and hopes to make the platform a resource for all kinds of legal issues.
The VICE Morning Bulletin
House and Mueller both subpoena Bannon, US national park advisers resign in protest, 22 states to sue FCC over net neutrality, and more.
The VICE Morning Bulletin
#MeToo dominates the Golden Globes, Kushner company took $30 million from Israeli investor, flooding wreaks havoc at JFK airport, and more.
The People of Bangladesh Shouldn't Have to Pay for America's Carbon Footprint
As the US continues to debate the reality of climate change while being one of the largest contributors to carbon emissions, countries like Bangladesh and millions of people suffer.
All The Ways Oil Companies Mess With Environmental Groups
After Enbridge tried to seize the assets of a Vancouver-based anti-pipeline organization this week, it’s worth revisiting Big Oil’s legal trick handbook.
How Advocacy Leaders Banded Together to Save US Foreign Aid from Trump's Budget Cuts
Some of America’s most prominent NGOs are coming together as a collective to look at ways to strategize, number crunch, and talk best practices.
Greece's Anarchists Are Taking Better Care of Refugees Than the Government
Greece has been at the crossroads of irregular immigration for more than a decade, especially since the influx of refugees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s.
Two French Brothers Are Retracing Magellan’s Voyage to Bring Clean Water to the World
Sitting across from me in a bar, they have the look of three men who've been at sea a long time—but in the best way possible.
Artificial Intelligence Is Predicting Human Poverty From Space
Because people on Earth don’t seem to have the time and money.