🥅 Strikes and protests around the #WomensWorldCup show the struggle women face worldwide pursuing a career in soccer.

@dianabaptistar reports. context.news/money-power-pe…

⚽️ Women face a 75% gender pay gap at the World Cup alone.

🤝 The inequality is propelling elite players to form unions and make a collective push for parity where persuasion has failed.

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🥅 Welcome to the 2023 #WomensWorldCup , where players work just as hard, but earn less and win smaller prizes than the men. context.news/money-power-pe…

Women face a 75% gender pay gap at the World Cup alone. This inequality is propelling elite players to form unions and make a collective push for parity where persuasion has failed, Diana Baptista reports - kicking off a series on unions across the world.
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⚽️ The $110 million total prize pool for this year's #WomensWorldCup is roughly 300% higher than what FIFA offered for the 2019 tournament.

But it is still far behind the $440 million prize awarded to men in the 2022 World Cup.

Diana Baptista reports: bit.ly/443rU2f

WorldCoin is descending on Mexico, trading crypto for iris scans all over the country, just as Mexico's data protection body is being dismantled.

We spoke to local privacy experts who worry Mexicans will have little recourse if their data is misused. context.news/ai/crypto-for-…

🟡 In countries with weak data protection rules like Mexico, Worldcoin is a threat to users' privacy, say digital rights groups. context.news/ai/crypto-for-…

Dozens of Mexicans this week signed up to have their eyeballs scanned in exchange for a digital ID and crypto tokens - but lawyers and activists warned against building a private database of biometric information

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🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.

(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/

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Wind turbines in Brazil stir conflict with Indigenous rights

#politics #brazil #EnvironmentalJustice #indigenous #energy #renewables #BrazilianPolitics
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''We are currently colonised by (AI) products of a few American multinationals..the best way to deal with this is to promote the development of local products that can compete with them'

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🧑‍⚖️ Eight countries in Latin America have proposed laws regulating AI, aiming to both protect human rights and promote tech innovation in the region.

Use our interactive map to find out which countries they are. 👇
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#MEXICO : CPJ strongly condemns the killing of journalist Luis Martín Sánchez Iñíguez, correspondent of newspaper La Jornada Impresa in the state of Nayarit, and calls on Mexican authorities to immediately and credibly investigate. 🧵jornada.com.mx/notas/2023/07/…

🧑‍🎓 Latin American universities are welcoming AI chatbot ChatGPT as a way to boost teaching and learning despite fears of plagiarism.
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Latin American universities embrace ChatGPT despite cheating fears

By Anastasia Moloney Diana Baptista Fabio Teixeira

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Birth control remains legal a year after the Supreme Court overturned #RoeVWade , but people face mounting obstacles to access, from long waits for appointments at overstretched clinics to state bills restricting contraceptive access for teenagers.

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⚖️ A year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned #RoevWade , which states have now banned or restricted abortion?

Use our interactive map to find out. 👇
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🇺🇸 Today, the U.S. marks a year since the Supreme Court overturned #RoeVWade and the right to abortion nationwide.

Though birth control remains legal, campaigners said women and girls face mounting obstacles to access.
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'There are places where people have to wait three or four months, sometimes even longer, just to get a routine visit for contraception... This would be a game changer.'

–CEO Dr. Raegan on why it's time to #FreeThePill for Context News/ Diana Baptista context.news/socioeconomic-…

As more insurers become insolvent, Florida residents are struggling to find affordable home coverage as a new climate-fuelled hurricane season gets underway Dave Sherfinski Diana Baptista #insurance #Florida context.news/climate-risks/…