- ICYMI: Australia's Foreign Minister addressed the National Press Club with a major new announcement about Australia's aid program — or was it? Both the Lowy Institute's Annmaree O'Keeffe and Stephen Howes & Joel Negin agree it's not new, but certainly worth further analysis.
- There are over 30 million slaves in the world today, 2.2 million of them in Pakistan.
- Did Angelina Jolie's involvement in the recent London conference on sexual violence in war help or hinder the cause?
- NY Times' Nicholas Kristof has pulled together a powerful interactive from his trip to Burma examining persecution facing Muslim minorities.
- Putting press freedom at the heart of poverty reduction efforts: nice blog post from Rob Mahoney, Deputy Director of Committee to Protect Journalists.
- LISTEN: the Lowy Institute's Jenny Hayward Jones and Tess Newton Cain discuss the Pacific Islands Development Forum happening in Nadi.
Aid & development links: Australian aid, press freedoms, Rohingya and more
Published 23 Jun 2014
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