Na onthullingen overmisbruik: Belgische Investeringsmaatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (BIO) moet wantoestanden onderzoeken bij microfinancieringsinstelling waar ze mee samenwerkt in Cambodja. apache.be/2025/09/17/p...

Belgische Investeringsmaatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (BIO) moet dringend de rechten van mensen centraal stellen in plaats van puur te focussen op financiële winst. apache.be/2025/09/17/o...

Terwijl Cambodjaanse boeren zich krom werken in een poging om uit de spiraal van schulden te geraken, stroomt het geld binnen bij de Belgische ontwikkelingsbank en piekt de ontbossing. apache.be/2025/09/16/g...

“Microkredieten” in Cambodja (van duizenden euro's, met 18% rente) draaien om winst, niet om armoedebestrijding. Voor @apache.be ging ik op zoek naar de ware impact van microfinanciering die door België wordt gesteund. Lees deel 1 online of in Apache Magazine! apache.be/2025/09/15/h...

‘Wat is uw mening over Hamas?’ Het klinkt als een vreemde vraag van je bank, maar het gebeurt echt. Klanten worden herhaaldelijk ondervraagd vanwege hun naam, religie of activisme. Banken baseren zich hierbij soms op ondeugdelijke bronnen, zoals pro-Israëlische lobbyclubs. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ho...

Niets aan Gaza is vaag. De feiten zijn huiveringwekkend concreet: de namen, de cijfers, de lichamen onder het puin. En toch hult een groot deel van de westerse media zich in mist. De genocide legt de kern bloot van wat journalistiek hoort te zijn: een waakhond, geen evenwichtskunstenaar.

Voor mijn eerste Kunst/Wet voor Apache.be schreef ik over mannen die ervan overtuigd zijn dat vrouwen “niet geïnteresseerd zijn in politiek”. Over boeren die niemand kennen die links stemt. En over ’s nachts in iemands armen liggen en je afvragen wie je geworden bent. apache.be/2025/07/26/k...

#HongKong: RSF welcomes the release of Chung Pui-kuen, ex-editor-in-chief of the now-defunct outlet #StandNews, freed yesterday after serving a 21-month prison sentence. He should never have been arrested, let alone convicted on spurious charges of "seditious publications”.

Reactions within the Post’s newsroom has been wide-ranging, and journalists are worried about giving up control of a story — but Futures editor Zachary Goldfarb hopes the initiative will build trust by breaking down the walls between sources, readers, and reporters. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/why-...

After 14 years in exile, Syrian journalist Mais Katt returned home following the fall of Assad’s regime to train women reporters.Through her ICFJ Jim Hoge Fellowship, she launched Women Who Won the War, a media platform and community for Syrian women journalists. Read:

📸 Temporary cameras have been installed on the boulevard where the #BudapestPride march will take place tomorrow, #RTL reports. The police have not yet responded to questions about the cameras. Under current legislation, marchers would be identified using facial recognition technology & then fined.

On #WorldRefugeeDay, we draw attention to the growing risks facing LGBTI refugees globally. Many flee state-sponsored violence in countries where they are scapegoated. As the EU Migration & Asylum Pact nears fullimplementation, we urge governments to protect the right to asylum.

“What Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine, that’s an invasion,” Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, explained. “On the other hand, illegal migration, or drug smuggling, or ordinary crime — that’s not an invasion.” By @mtredden.bsky.social‬

De nieuwe ethaankraker van Ineos die in Antwerpen verrijst, zal voor zijn bevoorrading minstens twee keer zoveel CO2 uitstoten als de fabriek zelf. Dat blijkt uit een analyse van Apache, die de volledige uitstoot berekende. apache.be/2025/06/11/v...

Trump gaat duizenden illegale migranten deporteren naar Guantánamo, onder wie ook Belgen

Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation. And hope to gobble up some land near you. Read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social's latest.

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding earmarked to conserve them had been canceled.

Far from defending the programming, PBS CEO Paula Kerger distanced the broadcaster from the show.

I cried while reporting this story. It was a real honor when a childhood friend reached out to share his experience recovering from Medicaid-funded top surgery while that is jeopardized for so many. Hear from Max and other trans folk’s on Medicaid about how they are feeling right now:

Hoe ziet de geschiedenis van zeventig jaar World Press Photo eruit? Het overzicht in De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam toont twee opvallende thema’s. Wat zegt dat?

A relocation of Newtok, Alaska, residents highlights how ill-prepared the United States is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable, according to an investigation by The Post, ProPublica and KYUK radio.

The people of Missouri made it very clear: They wanted abortion rights (at least until fetal viability). Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen.

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities. But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social

Six weeks after a major new disaster in Myanmar, calls are growing to find new ways to address a host of access, funding, and structural response challenges.

The self-proclaimed nation, the United States of Kailasa, operates from different parts of the world and offered high sums of money to Indigenous leaders in exchange for lands to exploit or conserve for carbon credit projects, say legal experts. @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2025/05/boli...

Since starting to work as a journalist in Gaza, Nour ElAssy's life has unravelled in real time under Israeli bombs and siege. But she continues to write articles "praying someone, somewhere, will read them and feel what I feel". Read her latest:

In early 2024, African Parks commissioned a U.K.-based law firm to investigate allegations of human rights abuses committed by the park’s rangers against local Indigenous people. The investigation is now complete, and AP has acknowledged that human rights abuses occurred.

Cambodia’s crackdown on critical journalism has intensified, with environmental journalist Ouk Mao's case reflecting a broader decline in press freedom, as highlighted by the country’s plummeting rank in the 2025 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedoms Index.

Wildfires burn across Scotland, England & Wales, amid warnings of a summer drought. Find out more here: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/w... @nytimes.com

✨ Sigma Awards 2025 GIJN received 498 data journalism project submissions from dozens of countries. Our jury, made up of 19 international experts, then selected 50 outstanding entries. Read through the Sigma Awards shortlist: https://twp.ai/9PSiht

Over pet peeves gesproken…

Voice of America will carry programming from the right-wing TV network One America News, according to a post on X from Kari Lake on Tuesday night.

New treatments on the horizon could delay or potentially even eliminate menopause. Do we want that?

Big brands are backing away from LGBTQ+ celebrations as part of a broader rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, leaving organizers from coast to coast with budget shortfalls at a time when most are anticipating higher turnout, as well as facing heightened safety challenges.

After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.

België vraagt grensbewaker Frontex om steun bij gedwongen terugkeer en controles

A night of horror in #Gaza: RSF strongly condemns the Israeli strike on a tent known for sheltering news professionals near the Nasser Hospital. We continue to gather information on the victims and — once again — call for an end to the relentless massacre of journalists in Gaza.

Sudan’s emergency response rooms are best known for running communal kitchens, but last year they found themselves navigating frontlines as they organised the largest civilian-led evacuation effort of the war. Thousands were saved from militia attacks: ⬇️

Professor Liesbet Stevens: ‘Bobcampagne nodig over seksueel geweld in uitgaansleven’

Trust Issues. How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations grist.org/indigenous/h... #FlatheadReservation #Indigenous #Tribes #Environment

A deadly storm unleashed tornadoes and heavy rain in the Midwest of the US in what forecasters describe as a "catastrophic and potentially historic flash flood event." But what happens when the weather calms down? A few years ago, I investigated inequality in the aftermath of natural disasters.

Robert W. McChesney for decades wrote about the ways our idealized vision of a “free press” was actually hampered by the power of big business, the wealthy, and government.

Last November, some described it as pointless. Others enjoyed the feeling of exercising one’s civic duty — even if it was pretend. Here's a look inside the first-ever mock election in a North Carolina prison.

Investigative journalists working as part of the Gaza Project used reporting, geolocation, and forensic analysis to reconstruct the shooting of Fadi al-Wahidi. interc.pt/4lmoJwz

Minister van Asiel en Migratie Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-VA) draait de geldkraan dicht voor nieuwe lokale opvanginitiatieven voor asielzoekers. “Ze spelen nochtans een cruciale rol bij de integratie van nieuwkomers”, zeg @pdbruyne.bsky.social.

Uncovering Silenced Stories @tbij.bsky.social reporters explain how they got around #SLAPP suits by having UK Members of Parliament – shielded by legal privilege – read previously silenced stories in the House of Commons. https://twp.ai/1VmZ3t

"I find it curious that such a blue state continues to allow the closest thing the U.S. has to slavery at this time."

Stop-and-search, fire ants and stinging nettles: Indigenous people are doling out justice to illegal miners in Peru’s Amazon. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

To help journalists with their reporting, @journoresource.bsky.social has curated a list of non-governmental websites and archives that preserve or maintain public health data in the face of US government takedowns of online information. More: https://twp.ai/1X1wnV