Articles for Community Leaders

At Kenya’s ‘Maasai Olympics’, women run to bridge the gender gap
1 week, 1 day ago

At Kenya’s ‘Maasai Olympics’, women run to bridge the gender gap

Al Jazeera  

A crowd erupts in cheers as a young Maasai woman pelts over the finish line, the latest participant in the “Maasai Olympics”, a reimagining of a traditional coming-of-age rite in the rolling Kenyan grasses. “They’re just there to be married.” But the 19-year-old, whose ambition is to be like famed Kenyan athlete Mary Moraa, said the races gave women like …

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NT truancy policy sparks tension in communities, as dozens of compliance notices issued
1 month ago

NT truancy policy sparks tension in communities, as dozens of compliance notices issued

ABC  

A rebooted policy to fine parents who fail to send their children to school in the Northern Territory has been labelled as a “direct attack” on Aboriginal rights by a group of community leaders. On Friday, group of community leaders gathered in the remote NT community of Maningrida to voice their concerns about the policy, which they said “punishes families …

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Dozens of Muslim organisations demand independent investigation into Islamophobia after violent riots
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Dozens of Muslim organisations demand independent investigation into Islamophobia after violent riots

The Independent  

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Tahiti’s rahui tradition has helped revive ecosystems — including near the Olympics surfing venue
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tahiti’s rahui tradition has helped revive ecosystems — including near the Olympics surfing venue

Associated Press  

TIAHURA, Tahiti — During their days on Tahiti’s turquoise ocean some years ago, fishers noticed their catches — and the fish inside — were getting smaller. The traditional conservation method of regulating human activity to help replenish and protect maritime ecosystems resources is being revived and showing results in Tahiti, including the area near the Paris Olympics surfing venue. There …

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Balodabazar violence: 7 more including NSUI leader arrested; 145 held so far
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Balodabazar violence: 7 more including NSUI leader arrested; 145 held so far

Hindustan Times  

Raipur: The Chhattisgarh Police have arrested seven more people, including a leader of the National Students’ Union of India, in connection with Balodabazar violence, which took place on June 10, officials said on Wednesday. Officials said that the police so far have arrested 145 people, including the leaders of the Satnami community, till Wednesday in connection with incidents of violence …

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Looking back at L.A.’s Chinatown to imagine a just future for Asian American communities
6 months, 1 week ago

Looking back at L.A.’s Chinatown to imagine a just future for Asian American communities

LA Times  

Book Review The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles By Laureen D. Hom UC Press: $29.95, 300 pages If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Hom’s research interests in gentrification and civic engagement in Asian American communities had led her in 2012 …

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Papuan community awaits news of loved ones after landslide in Papua New Guinea
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Papuan community awaits news of loved ones after landslide in Papua New Guinea

ABC  

In short: Papuan community members in Australia say they are waiting for news of relatives after a landslide in the Enga province of Papua New Guinea. Papuan community members in Australia say they are waiting for news of relatives after a landslide in the Enga province of Papua New Guinea. Junior Keapo is anxiously awaiting news of his extended family …

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Candidates meet caste, community leaders as campaigning closes
7 months, 1 week ago

Candidates meet caste, community leaders as campaigning closes

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: Even as the campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls ended on Saturday, candidates started wooing ‘influential’ people of castes, professional bodies and residential associations to secure their support at the last minute. BJP MP candidate Dharmapuri Arvind wrapped up his meetings with various community leaders and sought their support. Congress MP candidate T. Jeevan Reddy also met major community …

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Congress files case against Nadda, Amit Malviya over Karnataka BJP’s animated clip
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress files case against Nadda, Amit Malviya over Karnataka BJP’s animated clip

Hindustan Times  

The Congress on Sunday filed a first information report against three Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including its chief JP Nadda, and also approached the Election Commission over an animated clip posted by the party’s Karnataka unit on X that showed a caricatured description of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi distributing funds to Muslims, while ignoring Dalits, tribals and Other Backward Classes. …

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Multicultural community leaders volunteer as interpreters amid a shortage of translators and booming migration
8 months, 1 week ago

Multicultural community leaders volunteer as interpreters amid a shortage of translators and booming migration

ABC  

In short: Community leaders are translating essential communications as volunteers for growing migrant populations. Mrs Walter manages the local neighbourhood house as a full-time job, but also volunteers part-time as a community leader, often translates local government or emergency service information, and provides outreach support. Monash University research affiliate Dr Margherita Angelucci coordinated a project in Shepparton last year called …

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No show at Joe Biden's iftar party, ‘upset’ over Gaza many Muslim leaders turn down White House invite
8 months, 2 weeks ago

No show at Joe Biden's iftar party, ‘upset’ over Gaza many Muslim leaders turn down White House invite

Hindustan Times  

In a big embarrassment for the White House, President Joe Biden's iftar dinner invite was turned down by many Muslim community leaders, according to an NY Times report. AP/PTI Many of the invitees, reportedly unhappy with President Biden’s support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, opted not to attend the iftar meal on Tuesday evening. Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian American …

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Muslim leaders reject chance to break bread with Biden as anger over Gaza festers
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Muslim leaders reject chance to break bread with Biden as anger over Gaza festers

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Last year, President Joe Biden hadn’t even spoken a word at the White House celebration of Ramadan before someone shouted out “we love you.” Hundreds of Muslims were there to mark the end of the holy month that requires fasting from sunrise to sunset. And it’s sad.” Alzayat attended last year’s event, but he declined an invitation to …

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Biden skipped visiting a Black church on his recent Michigan trip, angering some community leaders
9 months ago

Biden skipped visiting a Black church on his recent Michigan trip, angering some community leaders

Associated Press  

SAGINAW, Mich. — President Joe Biden headed to Michigan last week to boost his support with Black voters and hedge against the growing opposition that the White House’s staunch support for Israel has sparked with Muslims in the critical swing state. Hurley Coleman Jr., a prominent Saginaw pastor and staunch Biden supporter whose son and grandson met Biden at the …

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People in Gaza are starving to death. 5 things to know about efforts to feed them
9 months ago

People in Gaza are starving to death. 5 things to know about efforts to feed them

NPR  

People in Gaza are starving to death. Enlarge this image toggle caption Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images Days earlier, McGoldrick spoke with NPR and said the U.N. was reaching out to "mukhtars," or leaders of prominent families and clans in Gaza, to help distribute food fairly in their territories of influence in northern Gaza. Enlarge …

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Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth
9 months, 1 week ago

Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth

Associated Press  

TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert. That’s because the parched waterways surrounding their town are intrinsically connected with spanning white salt flats below, subterranean lagoons with waters jam-packed with a material that’s come to be known as “white gold” – lithium. At …

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Watching the watchdogs: Biden, US media and Arab-American political power
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Watching the watchdogs: Biden, US media and Arab-American political power

Al Jazeera  

US media attacks on the Arab and Muslim American communities have only motivated them further to flex political muscle. In December, community leaders from nine potential swing states met in Dearborn, Michigan under the slogan “Abandon Biden, ceasefire now”. On February 2, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Steven Stalinsky, titled Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital, which …

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Biden reelection campaign team gets shunned by some Arab American leaders while visiting Michigan
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden reelection campaign team gets shunned by some Arab American leaders while visiting Michigan

Associated Press  

DEARBORN, Mich. — President Joe Biden’s campaign manager traveled to suburban Detroit on Friday, where many Arab Americans are enraged over the administration’s Israel policy, and found a number of community leaders unwilling to meet with her — exposing a growing rift between the White House and key groups often otherwise loyal to Democrats in a critical swing state. “And …

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Candidates promise vacation trips to community leaders
1 year ago

Candidates promise vacation trips to community leaders

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: After being offered vacation trips by candidates, the leaders of various communities have become active and playing a key role in swaying the voters belonging to their community to ensure their leaders' victory in the Assembly elections to be held on Thursday. Community leaders came out openly in support of political parties and contesting candidates and even organised meetings …

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Sadiq Khan speaks of ‘epidemic of violence against women and girls’
1 year, 2 months ago

Sadiq Khan speaks of ‘epidemic of violence against women and girls’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said there was “an epidemic …

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WA artists, community leaders call for action on Indigenous youth incarceration rates
1 year, 2 months ago

WA artists, community leaders call for action on Indigenous youth incarceration rates

ABC  

Artists from around the country have joined community leaders in WA's North West to call on the government to address high incarceration rates among Indigenous youth. Key points: Artists and Roebourne community leaders have called for the government to address Indigenous youth incarceration The calls were part of the Songs for Freedom event, which recently finished a national tour The …

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The importance of the Swaminarayan sect…
1 year, 3 months ago

The importance of the Swaminarayan sect…

Hindustan Times  

Ahmedabad: A Swaminarayan sect temple in the Botad district of Gujarat recently replaced two murals depicting Lord Hanuman kneeling before and praying with folded hands to the 19th-century seer Sahajanand Swami and the founder of the Swaminarayan sect, HT reported last week. A head of the committee will also be appointed shortly,” said Ashok Rawal, general secretary, Vishwa Hindu Parishad …

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Eyre Peninsula's rising crime rate sparks community leaders' calls for more police
1 year, 8 months ago

Eyre Peninsula's rising crime rate sparks community leaders' calls for more police

ABC  

Community leaders on the Eyre Peninsula are calling for more police resources following a rise in violence and other antisocial behaviour. Key points: Alleged assault on youth sparks urgent community leaders' meeting Port Lincoln crime rates increase after a string of anti-social behaviour incidences Community leaders are calling on the state government to provide more policing resources An urgent community …

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Kimberley student attendance drops again as 95 per cent of public schools record significant falls
1 year, 8 months ago

Kimberley student attendance drops again as 95 per cent of public schools record significant falls

ABC  

Community leaders in West Australia's north say truancy is becoming a pressing problem as new statistics show student attendance has dropped in almost every public school in the region. Key points: 21 out of 22 public schools in the Kimberley have seen a decline in attendance over the past two years Some schools' attendance rates have been below 50 per …

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How a crime wave in Alice Springs grew into a national political crisis
1 year, 10 months ago

How a crime wave in Alice Springs grew into a national political crisis

ABC  

Anthony Albanese may have only been in Alice Springs for a few hours, but his whirlwind visit in the face of growing political pressure over the town's soaring crime rates catapulted the issue to the top of the national agenda this week. "At a stroke, many Northern Territory communities, town camps and Community Living Areas will lose their legal protection …

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