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Another great, sunny Friday! So go on the readings for the weekend in addition to bask the start of your weekend exterior :) !

Development news: Gender Equality Top 100; Opioid crisis inwards Nigeria; Addis' low-cal rails project; the conflict inwards Republic of Yemen explained through humanitarian logistics; Syrian refugees inwards Jordan; Red Nose Day & shallow consumerism; how non to photograph Nigerian women; a woman somebody WOC encounters an 'important' white man; USA environmental organizations are rattling white; the challenges of localization for human rights NGOs

Our digital lives: Sexpat journalists inwards Asia; Google & the military-industrial complex; the missing workplace information discussion; the oxygen of amplification; novel Barbara Ehrenreich book.

Publications: The fake equivalent of academic liberty & gratis speech; how digital interventions influence girls' offline interactions.

Academia: MOOCs take away hold failed-at to the lowest degree inwards India; the Pamir part & the anthropology of Muslim humanitarianism.

Enjoy!

Development news
Gender Equality Top 100-The Most Influential People inwards Global Policy
Our thinking inwards compiling this listing is what underpins everything nosotros do at Apolitical: that world servants deserve recognition, in addition to that celebrating the best encourages the spread of practiced ideas. And that if you lot give world servants authoritative information in addition to access to their colleagues’ help, you lot tin modify the world.
Apolitical presents an interesting grouping of people in addition to lots of nutrient for thought in addition to discussion.

The Opioid Crisis Is Not Just An American Epidemic
Less than a decade ago, beds at NDLEA facilities were filled almost exclusively with working-class people struggling to wean themselves off locally brewed alcohol, heroin, in addition to cannabis. Those using tramadol — a synthetic opioid in addition to cousin of powerful prescription painkillers similar morphine, oxycodone, in addition to fentanyl — were rare cases, almost alone confined to immature men doing difficult labor or people who’d learn addicted through medical prescriptions. “Eight years ago, I’d hold upwards surprised to reckon a few tramadol cases [a year],” said Audu Moses, a psychiatrist whose piece of work with the NDLEA in addition to a UN-sponsored hospital makes him i of a handful of addiction specialists inwards Nigeria. “Now, I’ll reckon around 10 patients inwards a month, in addition to every twelvemonth it’s going up.”
Today, Nigeria stands on the brink of a catastrophic epidemic. BuzzFeed News has works life Nigerians of all ages are popping millions of pills daily, washing them downwardly with codeine, some other drug based on opium poppies, or as component subdivision of a cocktail that includes “purple lean” in addition to Rohypnol, the date-rape drug. Senior state of war machine officials told BuzzFeed News that stashes of tramadol recovered from Islamist militants similar Boko Haram oft outnumber bullets works life inwards their hideouts. Aid workers tell it is circulating inwards refugee camps. College students occupation it as an aphrodisiac. In the rural northward of the country, subsistence farmers tell it keeps them going for hours on end, a phrase echoed yesteryear sexual activity workers inwards southern urban centers.
Monica Mark for Buzzfeed News with a long-read on Nigeria's looming drug epidemic.

The Future Train
But the ruthlessness with which the authorities is removing obstacles to progress is alarming. Tens of thousands of people take away hold already been moved from the centre to the city's periphery, where they take away hold largely been left to their ain devices.
And soon, many others volition no longer hold upwards able to afford to alive inwards the affected areas. Rents for storey buildings rose yesteryear an average of 61 per centum betwixt 2012 in addition to 2016 in addition to as high as 100 per centum inwards some neighborhoods along the tram lines.
It's urgent that to a greater extent than hold upwards done to assist the people who take away hold been left behind yesteryear these changes.
Overall, mobility tin clearly agree the commutation to greater prosperity - also inwards other sub-Saharan countries. But the cities affected yesteryear these changes demand to a greater extent than international coin in addition to know-how.
Bernhard Riedmann & Stefan Schultz for Spiegel Online with a neat slice of multi-media journalism most Addis Ababa's novel low-cal rails project.

PODCAST: How Shipping Containers Explain the Conflict inwards Yemen
The politics in addition to the basic logistics of getting goods into these 2 ports offers commutation insights into the dynamics of the conflict inwards Republic of Yemen in addition to tin explicate why Republic of Yemen is experiencing such a profound humanitarian crisis.
Mark Leon Goldberg talks to Scott Paul, humanitarian policy Pb at Oxfam America for UN Dispatch.

Gender, disability in addition to displacement: Reflections from enquiry on Syrian refugees inwards Jordan
I’ve spoken to virile somebody refugees who tell that the widespread perception that only disabled woman somebody refugees are vulnerable left them invisible to assistance agencies – abandoned yesteryear the humanitarian system. It’s of import to emphasise that the intersection of gender, disability in addition to displacement tin take away hold a marginalising impact on both men in addition to women.
Ultimately, all this suggests that if nosotros are sincerely committed to ‘Leaving No One Behind’, it is imperative that nosotros sympathise the variety of experiences of the most vulnerable groups inwards society. We must also appreciate that when applying an intersectionality lens to our piece of work on a practical level, nosotros must recognise that the human relationship betwixt disability, gender in addition to displacement is complex, multifaceted in addition to the ways inwards which powerfulness is distributed tin modify across contexts in addition to situations. Humanitarian actors must, therefore, footstep away from narrow definitions of gender, disability in addition to displacement in addition to piece of work towards to a greater extent than rigorously planned humanitarian responses that appreciate each expression of human difference.
Bushra Rehman for From Poverty to Power with to a greater extent than nuances to the emerging enquiry on the complexities of refugee lives around Syria.

There Are Better Ways To Fight Poverty Than Giving Money To Corporations
Red Nose Day is typical of “brand aid” initiatives that engage consumers inwards low-cost heroism as a agency to channel practiced intentions into politically unquestioning in addition to commercially lucrative options. Red Nose Day’s branding is most making companies hold off practiced patch also encouraging consumers to spend. Only 50¢ of that $1 Red Nose buy goes toward the Red Nose Day Fund. The residue goes to the manufacturer.
Several studies present this form of charity branding works, for companies. Consumers prefer companies that back upwards charitable causes, so corporations learn involved to improve create awareness in addition to sales. One study demonstrated that tying branding to a drive increased profits in addition to “increased sales for the entire delineate of piece of work of products connected to the brand.”
Noelle Sullivan & Lisa Ann Richey for Huffington Post with a critical assessment of the American Red Nose Day.

How to non photograph Nigerian women… again
But these are flattened out yesteryear this choice to photograph women with such complex lives through the medium of a unmarried portrait in addition to perchance because photographing 83 portraits inwards a unmarried 24-hour interval perforce flattens out personality, movement, life, history. The photographs freeze these women inwards positions of suffering in addition to victimhood to a greater extent than than whatever repetition of their story mightiness take away hold done. It is, though, astonishing that the New York Times would juxtapose such a collection of images with the story of a journalist’s tough route to capture them. It is quite literally a ludicrous juxtaposition betwixt the extreme trauma in addition to violence all of the photographs’ subjects take away hold experienced in addition to the miserable struggles of an American author inwards search of a particular image. It is, too, this ikon that beggars belief. The reams of film, newspaper in addition to sound out in that location on the problems of the unmarried story, peculiarly most Africa, peculiarly most African women, should take away hold sure enough given Searcey in addition to Ferguson pause.
Kathryn Mathers for Africa is a Country with a detailed visual in addition to political analysis take-down of a New York Times characteristic of 'Portraits of Dignity'.

The encounter
I volition retrieve also what the environmental rights defender on the panel reminded our audience — including Steve in addition to myself — that day. He, who has escaped many attempts on his life for his convictions inwards Nigeria, reminded us: i time you lot are hooked to the struggle for justice, there’s no going back!
I am hooked, I admit. I am hooked to non beingness some other chocolate-brown adult woman who internalizes her ain oppression, who exercises complicity through collegiality, who vents to her ain community but remains compartmentalized at work. I pass upwards to hold upwards fragmented as a human in addition to as a woman.
By Rajasvini Bhansali for Thousand Currents shares powerful reflections on beingness a woman somebody leader inwards the charity sector who has been encountering 'important', 'powerful 'white men throughout her career.

U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — in addition to some aren’t — doing most it.
“If you lot don’t do it authentically,” says González, “just don’t do it.”
Inauthentic gestures — for example, promoting various faces on an organization’s website without concomitant shifts inwards outreach or recruitment — are a mutual misstep. Another is focusing also much on increasing the number of people of colouring hired, instead of investigating why the numbers are so depression in addition to addressing the rootage causes, says Charles “Chas” Lopez, vice president for variety in addition to inclusion at Earthjustice, a San Francisco–based environmental constabulary nonprofit.
Mary Scoonover, executive vice president of the California-based conservation non-profit Resources Legacy Fund, says her arrangement has, since inception, focused on broadening, ethnically in addition to economically, the groups in addition to leaders who advocate for conservation. But they decided 10 years agone they needed to do to a greater extent than to diversify their board in addition to staff.
Virginia Gewin for Sixdegrees on how environmental civil monastic tell is struggling to diversify.

The hazards of international NGOs going local
First in addition to foremost, Northern internationalization must address local human rights priorities, non Northern priorities for the South. All human rights are equal, but they are non every bit resonant or strategic inwards every context. Thus, when selecting issues to tackle, Northern groups must accept the Pb from the South. The costs of getting it incorrect are greatest in that location in addition to Southern advocates are to a greater extent than probable to hold off good beyond narrow, issue-specific in addition to short-term successes to the larger in addition to longer-term political, economical in addition to social transformations. Southern rights advocates’ before attending to economical in addition to social rights in addition to strategic alliances with domestic social modify movements—of the poor, landless, indigenous peoples, labor, environmental activists, to cry a few—are evidence of this.
Mona Younis for Open Global Rights on how 'localization' is oft easier said than done...

Obligations
The Signal Code: Ethical Obligations for Humanitarian Information Activities translates in addition to applies the foundational sources of ethical humanitarian practise to humanitarian information activities, such as mobile devices, WiFi provision, information collection, storage in addition to analysis, in addition to biometric registration tools. This document represents the starting fourth dimension elbow grease to supply humanitarian practitioners in addition to researchers with comprehensive ethical guidance for this increasingly commonplace in addition to critical surface area of humanitarian practice.
The Signal Code publishes its latest installment on human rights in addition to information during crisis.

Our digital lives
Sexpat Journalists Are Ruining Asia Coverage
The problems are worsened yesteryear the unequal powerfulness dynamics inwards the offices of multinational media that employ “local staff” to supply translation, comport research, in addition to navigate complex bureaucracies, but pay them a fraction of what their unusual colleagues earn. In China, these “news assistants” are to a greater extent than oft than non immature women. This designing is mirrored inwards other countries, where the puddle of those with the English-language skills needed for the chore oft skew female. “Many people, peculiarly those with existent regional in addition to local knowledge, are non hired on proper price in addition to take away hold piffling or no recourse to the constabulary or to nuptials support, or fifty-fifty merely commonsense back upwards in addition to mentoring,” says Didi Kirsten Tatlow, a Hong Kong-born journalist.
Joanna Chiu for Foreign Policy with an of import contribution to local-expat debates that sound familiar inwards the context of #globaldev in addition to #AidToo.

The Line Between Big Tech in addition to Defense Work
Maciej Ceglowski, who runs a grassroots grouping called Tech Solidarity that has organized events with tech workers around the country, doubts the possibility of a worker-driven uprising. “Getting from griping to organizing seems to hold upwards an insurmountable step,” he says. “I experience similar the closest nosotros came was around the move ban, when people were actually agitated in addition to it was their coworkers in addition to families on the line.”
Without a realistic risk to number change, “It's superhuman to enquire people to organize around high ethical principles at the risk of their livelihood,” Ceglowski says. Big tech poses other roadblocks. “These organizations are large plenty that people tin rationalize they are working for a practiced subgroup of it,” Ceglowski says.
Nitasha Tiku for Wired with an of import reminder that the military-industrial complex is deeply embedded inwards Silicon Valley.

Not Just a Facebook Problem: Ethical information collection must hold upwards employed at work
We also supply information as workers, in addition to this information has value. Our CVs, biometric information such as fingerprints or iris scans, geographical locations, interpersonal networks – as good as the abundant information mined from us as employers monitor our workflows in addition to fifty-fifty our keystrokes – tin hold upwards sold in addition to analysed for occupation inwards marketing, advertising in addition to HR. For example, USA telephone telephone centre employees at an international banking giant take away hold reported that analytics software monitored their every word in addition to scored them on the friendliness of their tone. The banking company used this information to approximate workers' performance, in addition to a bad score could drive fiscal harm, dependent or fifty-fifty termination. Workers said in that location was piffling to no recourse to right mis-scorings, fifty-fifty though it was the software that had failed to recognise sure spoken language patterns
Christina J. Colclough for the OECD Forum with an of import reminder that the debate on the powerfulness of large information in addition to algorithms has so far non reached many digitalized workplaces...

The Oxygen of Amplification
Offering extremely candid comments from mainstream journalists, the study provides a snapshot of an manufacture caught betwixt the pressure level to deliver page views, the impulse to comprehend manipulators in addition to “trolls,” in addition to the disgust (expressed inwards interviewees’ ain words) of accidentally propagating extremist ideology.
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As social in addition to digital media are leveraged to reconfigure the information landscape, Phillips argues that this novel domain requires journalists to accept what they know most abuses of powerfulness in addition to media manipulation inwards traditional information ecosystems; in addition to apply in addition to adapt that knowledge to networked actors, such as white nationalist networks online.
Whitney Phillips for Data & Society with a novel study on how (not) to study in addition to engage with groups that could do with far less digital oxygen...

Mind Control
Ehrenreich contemplates with some satisfaction non merely the approach of her ain decease but also the passing of her generation. As the boomers take away hold aged, denial of death, she argues, has moved to the centre of American culture, in addition to a vast industrial ecosystem has bloomed to capitalize on it. Across twelve chapters, Ehrenreich surveys the wellness attention system, the civilization of quondam age, the world of “mindfulness,” in addition to the interior workings of the trunk itself, in addition to finds a fixation on controlling the body, encouraged yesteryear cynical in addition to self-interested professionals inwards the cry of “wellness.” Without opposing reasonable, routine maintenance, Ehrenreich observes that the attention of the self has learn a coercive in addition to exploitative obligation: a string of endless medical tests, drugs, wellness practices, in addition to exercise fads that threaten to learn the indicate of life rather than its sustenance. Someone, obviously, is profiting from all this.
Gabriel Winant for New Republic on Barbara Ehrenreich's novel book.

Publications
The fake equivalence of academic liberty in addition to gratis speech
These novel threats take away hold arisen because in that location are increasing attempts to supply a ‘scholarly’ veneer to what are otherwise intend ideologies. At a fourth dimension when in that location are concerted efforts to decolonize academia, in that location is concurrent rising of colonial nostalgia in addition to white supremacy amid some academics, who are supported yesteryear in addition to destination upwards lending back upwards to the escalating far-right movements globally who misuse notions of gratis spoken language in addition to academic liberty to farther their agendas in addition to assault higher education. Critical scholars thus demand to agree accountable beau academics, academic publishers, in addition to universities inwards monastic tell to protect academic integrity in addition to scholarship inwards an era when gratis spoken language is misused to quiet the pursuit of scholarly rigor in addition to ethical engagement.
Farhana Sultana with an open-access article for ACME-An International Journal for Critical Geographies which includes a critical give-and-take of the TWQ affair that has played a major piece of work inwards how things take away hold evolved.

From browsing to conduct change: How digital interventions influence offline modify with adolescent girls
Girl Effect unearthed numerous insights into how digital interventions piece of work in addition to what works best, along with to a greater extent than surprising findings such as the impact on soundless users or ‘lurkers’, in addition to how avatars in addition to profile photos tin prompt change.
Girl Effect's novel study mentioned inwards my Tweet above.

Human Capital Round-up - May 2018 Edition
Here are 30+ studies on the economic science of teaching in addition to wellness that I've encountered in addition to works life interesting recently.
David Evans for the World Bank reads in addition to digests a lot of novel studies!

Academia
MOOCs: Udacity to focus on private pupil projects
“Moocs are a failed product, at to the lowest degree for the goals nosotros had laid for ourselves,” said Shen, who was inwards Bharat before this month. “Our mission is to convey relevant teaching which advances people inwards careers in addition to socio-economic activities, in addition to MOOCs aren't the way."
Varuni Khosla for the Economic Times India on how Udacity is admitting the failure of MOOCs in addition to aiming at a new, smaller in addition to to a greater extent than private pupil market.

Till Mostowlansky on Muslim Humanitarianism
As anthropological enquiry suggests the unintended afterlives of their projects, too, are related to broader issues inwards international development. In my view, this is less most these organizations’ alternative ethical foundations – the genealogies of their visions for evolution – but most systemic inequality inwards the evolution sector, the rising of evolution bureaucracy in addition to the continuous expansion of neoliberal managerial practices.
Allegra Lab talks to Till Mostowlansky on the Pamir part in addition to how Western evolution in addition to Muslim lives in addition to arrangement became his anthropological enquiry focus.

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