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Nick Kroll, ‘Little Miss Flint’ Mari Copeny join 2018 Social Good Summit speaker lineup

sudshr47 August 27, 2018

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There is a lot going on out there today, and the Social Good Summit is your inside look at untold stories, reimagination, reinvention, and most of all, a place to connect about solutions as we work towards achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as an international community.

This year’s Summit is focused on elevating solutions that leave no one behind. As such, our speaker roster continues to diversify in age, background, and passion points. With even more names set to be announced in the coming weeks, the latest slate of Social Good Summit speakers includes comedian Nick Kroll and youth activist Mari Copeny. Read more…

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Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts for ‘enabling human rights abuses’

sudshr47 August 27, 2018

Facebook is cracking down on the military leadership in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been identified as a factor contributing to ethnic tension and violence. The U.S. company said today that it removed accounts belonging to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the military-owned Myawady […]

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Uzo Aduba, Amber Heard, Padma Lakshmi among first confirmed 2018 Social Good Summit speakers

sudshr47 August 6, 2018

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Uzo Aduba, Amber Heard, and Padma Lakshmi are among the first speakers announced for this year’s Social Good Summit.

Recently named one of Forbes’s Five Social Impact Conferences Guaranteed To Inspire You, the Social Good Summit is the one place granting everyday activists access to some of the world’s most progressive thought leaders as they discuss issues affecting the connected generation. Aduba, Heard, and Lakshmi will join other activists and world leaders on Sept. 23 in New York City to discuss how the global community can work together to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by the year 2030. Read more…

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Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy

sudshr47 July 30, 2018

A UK parliamentary committee which has been running a multi-month investigation into the impact of online disinformation on political campaigning — and on democracy itself — has published a preliminary report highlighting what it describes as “significant concerns” over the risks to “shared values and the integrity of our democratic institutions”. It’s calling for “urgent […]

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Refugee numbers at a ‘record high’ — here’s how to fix that

sudshr47 June 19, 2018

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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) released its Global Trends report on the global refugee crisis on Tuesday, concluding that the world’s forcibly displaced population was at a “record high.” 

According to the report, a total of 68.5 million people were displaced by the end of 2017, increased by 2.9 million since 2016. During 2017 alone, 16.2 million people fled — which comes out to 44,500 people becoming refugees every day of last year. This is the largest increase of refugees UNHCR has seen in a single year. 

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Papua New Guinea threatens to close Facebook for a month to investigate its harmful impact

sudshr47 May 29, 2018

Facebook is proving problematic for many governments worldwide, but few would think to shut it down entirely. That’s exactly the approach that Papua New Guinea, the Pacific sea island nation located near Australia, is proposing to take with a new measure that could see the social network closed off for a month. During that period, the […]

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How the U.N. Refugee Agency will use big data to find smarter solutions

sudshr47 April 24, 2018

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It took a devastating photograph to get the world to pay attention.

The image of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi went viral in September 2015, showing the toddler’s lifeless body washed ashore in Turkey after his family tried to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to find safety in Greece. It was a wake-up call for the international community, particularly people in rich, developed nations who had yet to grasp the scope of continued human suffering caused by the years-long Syrian conflict.

But today, as more than 22.5 million people have fled countries like Syria, South Sudan, and Myanmar because of civil war, famine, and ethnic cleansing, sentiment around the crisis has become nearly as complex as the crisis itself. Politicians continue to spout harmful rhetoric that stokes fears and misconceptions about refugees and migrants, while people who do want to help often resign themselves to feeling that it’s an intractable issue — too overwhelming to make a difference.  Read more…

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5 powerful stories by girls whose lives were forever changed by child marriage

sudshr47 February 14, 2018

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For most of us, a wedding day is something to look forward to. To plan and prepare. Or something to look back with fond memories of a choice once made. 

For millions of young girls and boys around the world, however, marriage is not a choice. It interrupts their childhood, forcing them into perilous cycles that are all too often impossible to break free from. 

Many young women have risked everything to have the right to choose for themselves. And some managed to escape. Now they’re sharing their empowering stories with women all around the world. The stories were presented in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which is raising awareness about child marriage around Valentine’s Day – a celebration of love and our right to choose. Read more…

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Angelina Jolie speaks out about Hollywood sexual abuse in moving U.N. speech

sudshr47 November 16, 2017

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Angelina Jolie further addressed the serious issue of sexual abuse in Hollywood during a speech at the U.N. Peacekeeping Defense Ministerial Conference.

Jolie, a Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, was in Vancouver on Wednesday to speak about gender-based violence around the world, a crucial issue she feels needs to be given greater attention. 

The actress, who was one of dozens of women to accuse producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, began her speech by acknowledging, “Sexual violence is everywhere — in the industry where I work, in business, in universities, in policies and politicians, in the military, and across the world.”  Read more…

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