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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyyet, one of Turkey’s most popular newspapers, was awaiting an appeal on his case in Turkey from Germany when the news of the coup d’etat in his homeland came. Scores of...
Investigative journalist and activist, Wendy Funes risks her life in Honduras to report on violence against women and human rights violations.
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