Entrepreneurship Mini Plants Pucallpa
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In the last 5 years, USAID and CEDRO, through the CRECE Alliance, have provided internet access to 105 rural communities, benefiting 72,000 people and provided financial training to more than 20,000 people and also provided 14,500 credits.
Diaspora Invests In Kosovo - Germin
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USAID is partnering with local groups to provide opportunities for Kosovan entrepreneurs, primarily women to export high value products.
Reporters Shield: Defend Investigative Journalism
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USAID Administrator Samantha Power announces Reporters Shield, a new program from USAID, OCCRP, and the Vance Center, to protect investigative journalism from lawsuits meant to silence them and their reporting. Visit www.reporters-shield.org to apply or to find out more.
Administrator Samantha Power on CNN This Morning
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Well, right now around the world, there are more than 500 journalists who are in detention of some kind. And just in the last year, 67 journalists have been killed while doing their work. This is a growing phenomenon, it’s a growing problem as countries become more repressive, as corrupt actors want to hide what they're doing, they lash out at journalists. And one of the things we realized is that lately, the tactic is to actually bankrupt journalists as well as to detain them. And so what we're launching today is called Reporters Shield, it's an insurance fund that will allow journalists who may not have the means to compete with a repressive government or an oligarch to actually have the insurance and the legal protection that they need in order to fight back and stay in business – stay in the business of holding accountable those actors who are trying to steal and repress their people.
Administrator Samantha Power Delivers Remarks at UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 30th Anniversary Event
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It’s partly because of UNESCO that World Press Freedom Day exists. As many of you know, May 3 honors the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, produced in 1991 by African journalists attending a UNESCO seminar on press freedom in Namibia. They wrote that an “independent, pluralistic, and free press is essential to the development and maintenance of democracy.”