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AUGUST UPDATE

Welcome to the Thomson Reuters Foundation [[link removed]]’s August update. In this newsletter you’ll find highlights from across our work, as well as the latest opportunities for you to get involved. If you don’t regularly receive our newsletter, you can subscribe here [[link removed]].

Meet our Trust Conference speakers

Our flagship annual event, Trust Conference [[link removed]], will be held virtually across two days this November - with more than 20 live keynotes, insight sessions, panel discussions and fireside chats.

Bringing together frontline activists, thought leaders and top decision-makers in the areas of media freedom, inclusive economies and human rights, Trust Conference 2021 will explore:

Day One [[link removed]] | The need to build more inclusive and sustainable economies post-pandemic, with discussions ranging from what is needed to 'achieve net-zero' to the economic impact of exclusion.

Day Two [[link removed]] | Pressing issues such as online harassment against female journalists, ensuring diversity in the newsroom, and emerging digital rights risks in the Global South.

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Registration for free tickets will open on 15 September. Sign up [[link removed]] to our Trust Conference newsletter for more updates and speaker announcements.

Stop Slavery Award: applications now open

Now in its sixth year, the Stop Slavery Award celebrates the wide range of actors dedicated to ending modern slavery and human trafficking. Our six Award categories [[link removed]] recognise grassroots organisations on the frontlines, businesses of all sizes who are rooting out forced labour from their supply chains, journalists raising awareness of the scourge, innovators in this space and cross-sector collaborators.

The entry deadline is Friday, December 03. Applications will be shortlisted and then reviewed by our expert and highly esteemed judging panels [[link removed]], which include Kevin Hyland, the former UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, and Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.

Finalists will be invited to an award ceremony, where they will be celebrated amongst peers also working to combat modern slavery. The winners will each receive a print – conceived especially for the initiative – by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor.

FIND OUT MORE AND APPLY [[link removed]] Introducing Briefly, our new video series

Our newly launched video series, Briefly, provides critical and timely insights into the latest news stories.

With Tokyo 2020 one of the hottest Olympics on record - evidenced by athletes withdrawing from competition, fainting from the intense heat and describing the conditions as “brutal” - our first episode examines the dramatic impact climate change is having on sport. Watch to find out what the future of global sport could look like in the face of climate change, as well as the role it can play in tackling the issue.

WATCH THE EPISODE [[link removed]] Discover more in our focus areas:

Media Freedom [[link removed]] | Inclusive Economies [[link removed]] | Human Rights [[link removed]]

Media Freedom:

Training opportunities for journalists [[link removed]]

Are you a journalist reporting on issues such as modern slavery, digital rights, climate change and COVID-19? Follow @TRF_Media [[link removed]] to stay up-to-date with our latest journalism training and mentoring opportunities.

Inclusive Economies:

Welcome to Brazil? Venezuelan workers exploited under aid programme [[link removed]]

Our investigation revealed that Operation Welcome - Brazil’s government programme that provides humanitarian aid to Venezuelans and helps them to resettle and find work - is failing to protect migrant workers from exploitation and slave labour.

Podcast on debt bondage in Cambodia’s brick industry [[link removed]]

In this podcast from Freedom Collaborative and Winrock’s USAID Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons Project, our Cambodia Correspondent - Matt Blomberg - spoke to an artist about his experience of working in a brick kiln and the accident where he lost his arm.

Short film on modern slavery selected for 2021 Aesthetica Short Film Festival [[link removed]]

We're thrilled that our short film about Van Ngoc Ta, a lawyer who rescues women from sexual slavery in China, has been selected for this year's Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

Human Rights:

Online ‘Breaking Down Barriers to Health Services in Africa’ training held for journalists and civil society organisations [[link removed]]

We teamed up with The Global Fund to equip journalists and civil society organisations in Africa with the information and skills needed to accurately report on, and communicate about, human rights-related barriers to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria services - particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear from [[link removed]] Stephen Otieno Oketch - a journalist at The Nation Media Group in Kenya - as he reflects on his experience of the six-week training.

This month we recommend:

Read: Thomson Reuters Foundation News Opinion- I fled Nigeria for my safety. But many other LGBT+ activists remain under threat in my country [[link removed]] . [[link removed]]

Read: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism- How People Access News about Climate Change [[link removed]].

Read: The New York Times OpEd- The Press Just Got a Big Win. Let’s Make It Permanent. [[link removed]]

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