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We stayed in the forest homes of members of the Prey Lang Network, a grassroots association of villagers risking their lives to try and slow the destruction of their forest.
The battle the Kuy and Chut Wutty are fighting against the march of logging, plantations and mining companies into the forest of Cambodia holds an uncanny resemblance to the plot of Avatar. Except this is real-life. And the bullets are real.
The Atavist's process added a whole new dimension to my ability to tell a good story, and dispelled any doubts I had about the future of longform journalism.
Rape, invisible and ubiquitous, is perceived as sexual and inevitable, and we tend to think of children and women as collaterally damaged during war. In truth, all over the world, girls and women are fully, bodily engaged in conflict.
This Mother's Day, I am even more motivated to find what else we, as women, can do on this day to advance global womanhood and empower each other.
American politicians and the public lacked the necessary information to devise a viable solution. There was definitely enough press about mass deaths to alarm the public, but journalists simply couldn't provide enough information to persuade anyone to take action.
International human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often the vanguard in this global fight. So, it is perplexing when some of these NGOs undercut their own legitimacy by making public outcries that do little to help their overall causes, and in fact, undermine them.
Opened in 2010, Bloom Training Centre and Café is the brain-child of Ruth Larwill, a mother of two from Brisbane, Australia, who found she could use her passion for cake decorating to provide economic opportunity for vulnerable women in Cambodia.
You are probably wondering how a company that specializes in "human hair extensions" can help to empower women rescued from human trafficking.
If a picture tells a thousand words we know why photojournalists do what they do: they tell stories with their pictures.
All that remains of this once vibrant area is a bunch of torn down buildings, empty lots and shacks.
Any adoptive mother or father will tell you that the memory of the first day they held, hugged and began bonding with their adopted child is the strongest remembrance of fulfillment in a lifetime.
The world is packed full of astounding ancient cities that have survived through the ages.
During a recent trip to Southeast Asia the lives of some hidden communities and new considerations and issues came to my attention that relate to our ...
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In a crucial decision for the people and ecosystems of the Mekong River Basin, the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam have just agreed to delay the Xayaburi Dam, the first of eleven dams proposed for the Mekong River.
