Sarah Johnson
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Reporter, global development desk, @guardian. My book 'A Nurse's Story' about life in A&E before & during Covid: https://t.co/f6sd0kVPyx
Joined September 2011
RT @sherryrehman: The UK's @guardian newspaper covered the child marriage restraint bill that we passed in Pakistan's parliament a few da….
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The city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage which politicians say it is a mark of the country bucking global trends to stand behind its women
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What an honour to chair a panel on international development today @thefabians new year conference. Thanks to @AnnelieseDodds @richarddblewitt and @pimlicat and an amazing audience who I wish had had time to ask more questions. #FabianNYC25.
The first panel sessions have begun! Our speakers this morning are discussing business, the arts, growth, and international development.
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RT @iomondi01: A big loss of livelihoods and to the environment.
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Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week
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RT @nelsabbey: Heartwarming. Snoop & Dre sampled a song by a London charity. “This is the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me, and….
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RT @carolecadwalla: A long day but I’m so proud & happy to have stood alongside my Guardian & Observer colleagues to fight for what we beli….
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I am joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow @GoNUJ93 and @NUJofficial or visit
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“I do an illegal job, stealing. I do it because I have no choice. I started because I had nothing to live on and no job.”. I met some of the women forced to scavenge in Bolivia's mines when I visited Huanuni, a town with few other employment opportunities.
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Some work underground, others pick over tailings; all are running huge risks. But in the town of Huanani, the mines are the only way to support a family
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‘Many are obliged to sleep with the foreman’: Bolivia’s female builders square up to an abusive system. I met members of a female construction worker collective in La Paz to find out about how women fare, and their efforts to introduce a new law .
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In the face of sexism, harassment and unequal pay, a group of women in the construction industry offers support and empowerment to their colleagues
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RT @mfouquenet: Très chouette papier sur Cecilia Llusco, une guide de montagne bolivienne indigène qui grimpe en pollera, jupe traditionnel….
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As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
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RT @NatureNymph: Women with altitude. Im a firm believer in wearing what you like & are comfortable in doing outdoor activities and I've a….
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As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
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RT @ouliemata: Some day I hope to climb with #Bolivia's cholitas escaladoras in a pollera! . #travel #adventure #fashion . .
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As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
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Cecilia Llusco is one female indigenous mountain guide changing the face of tourism in Bolivia. I went up Huayna Potosí with her and learned how she started work in tourism aged 8, before founding las cholitas escaladoras and becoming a guide .
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As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
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RT @NakabuyeHildaF: "If a lake dies, it’s as if the soul of a people dies" @guardian . We empower ourselves’: the women cleaning up Bolivia….
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Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem
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Once clean enough to drink, Lake Uru Uru was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using reeds to revive the vital ecosystem
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Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem
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Extreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender equality, says new @ALIGN_Gender research @ODI_Global .
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Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights
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RT @Sumayyah_UK: Pleasure to meet the @SSBFed team at their press conference last week, before they left for #Paris2024, and contribute my….
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RT @tomgribbin: A brilliant read by @sajajohnson on the amazing journey of South Sudan and their basketball team. .
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The underdog team’s astonishing journey to Paris has inspired the country – and fans across Africa – with hopes the Bright Stars will light the way for the next generation
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In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban.
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In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen...
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RT @Andy_Scollick: We live in a world in which climate protesters are beaten by soldiers and climate scientists are arrested by armed polic….
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Stephen Kwikiriza is one of 11 campaigners against EACOP targeted by authorities in past two weeks, rights group says
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