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February update
Welcome to the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s February update. In this newsletter, you’ll find highlights from across our areas of work, as well as the latest opportunities for you to get involved. If you don’t regularly receive our newsletter, you can subscribe here.
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Dispatches from the cost of living crisis - and tips for surviving it
Our media platform – Context – has partnered with Pocket to present a collection of our reporting on the cost of living crisis.
As issues like the conflict in Ukraine, coronavirus, climate change, and rising oil prices continue to affect the price of commodities like food and energy, everything is becoming more expensive, in almost every country. The ‘Dispatches From the Cost of Living Crisis — And Tips for Surviving It’ collection offers insight into the often underreported impact of global economic upheaval and practical suggestions for navigating it.
Law firms remain committed to pro bono amid global crises
The 2022 TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono is the fifth edition of our survey mapping the global scale and trends of the pro bono legal sector. The Index, our most comprehensive version to date, highlights successful pro bono programmes and provides benchmarks on pro bono participation, offering law firms a unique resource to build and improve their pro bono practices.
The 2022 Index found that 3.5 million hours of pro bono were completed globally by more than 100,000 lawyers across 124 countries. This work took place across a range of issues such as access to justice, sustainability and climate action, human rights, women and LGBTQ+ rights, and freedom of speech.
On our website you’ll find a handy tool breaking down the Index’s findings by region and country, as well as in-depth analysis on what the survey tells us about the state of global pro bono.
February updates from across the Foundation
Media Freedom:
2023 Kurt Schork Awards: Entries opening soon
We'll soon be opening applications for the 2023 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism, which honour courageous reporting of conflict, corruption, human rights transgressions and injustice.
Now in their 22nd year, these annual Awards, hosted by the Kurk Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF), recognise freelance journalists, local reporters and news fixers from around the world who report on pressing global challenges, often at personal risk. The winners of the 2023 Awards will speak in a panel to be hosted at the Foundation’s annual flagship event, Trust Conference.
Keep an eye out for more updates and learn more about the Awards here.
Inclusive Economies:
Discount code for GAIL's annual summit on the power of the law to drive social change
The Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL) is a community of legal leaders who are using the practice of law to have a positive impact on people and the planet, and to accelerate the just transition. The Foundation is proud to be partnering with GAIL for its Annual Summit from 14-15 March 2023 on 'Collaboration and Disruption: Impact Law in a Changing World'.
Join leading impact lawyers from around the world in person, in London, for a variety of sessions on topics including: impact investing, climate, biodiversity and the law, sustainable finance, ESG, benefit corporations and B Corps, philanthropy, legislative and regulatory developments, and innovation and the law.
The first five members of our network to register will receive 25% discount on the ticket price by using the code TRF25. View the agenda and register for tickets here.
Human Rights:
Openly reports on the plight of the trans community in Ukraine, one year since conflict began
Anastasiia Yeva Domani is the director of Cohort, an expert on the Working Group of Trans People on HIV and Health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and a representative of the transgender community on the Ukrainian National Council on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis.
She spoke to Openly, the Foundation’s global digital platform for fair and impartial LGBTQ+ news, about turning her apartment into a place where trans people can access the medications that conflict has made scarce. Although the situation is slowly improving, the invasion has made purchasing hormone drugs much more expensive and difficult. Anastasiia’s work is providing much-needed support to the already marginalised trans community.
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This month we recommend
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READ: Austria finds new solutions as hospitality towards Ukrainian refugees sours | .coda
Opportunities:
Head of Inclusive Economies Programme. Based in London, The Head of Inclusive Economies will shepherd the expansion of TRF’s portfolio of products and programmes to foster responsible business practices and develop and scale research and analysis on key relevant topics to build our thought leadership and engagement with the private sector.
Experience Cloud Developer, TrustLaw (FT: 12 months). Based in India, the TrustLaw Portal Developer will help to transform the TrustLaw Members’ Portal – developing features to take it from a simple platform, through which we connect high-impact NGOs and social enterprises with leading law firms and corporate legal teams, to an interactive ecosystem that also offers opportunities for learning, knowledge-sharing, innovation, networking, and collaboration.
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