Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
‘I stopped demanding a reaction a long time ago’
Syrian reporter Zaina Erhaim on training citizen reporters and the importance of documenting the Assad regime’s atrocities. Interview by Anton Mukhamedov.
Firing up the change
504 - July, 2017
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The advantages of greater equality are clear – the more so as the negative effects of widening inequality in some countries become apparent. But how can we help turn the tide?
Avaaz greenwashes Paris climate agreement
Avaaz is triumphant, but the Paris Agreement promotes the kind of policies that have failed us so far, write Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Samir Dathi.
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