When the horror starts for all of us, regular immigrants, second generation citizens, people with strange-sounding names, communities that celebrate different holidays, we will ask ourselves at what point it could have still been stopped. At THIS point.

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‘A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.’
- David Almond

Stanfords is just that place
❤️🌎📖

Ghaith Tim Hannigan Levison Wood Alex Bescoby Mary Novakovich Leon McCarron Rebecca Lowe

In my new piece for the National Geographic Traveller (UK) Latin America Collection, I travel across Tierra del Fuego to Puerto Williams, the world’s southernmost city.

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BREAKING: Discovery of Mass Graves in Gaza Highlights Urgent Need to Grant Access to Independent Human Rights Investigators

@Amnesty’s Senior Director of Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara Rosas made the following statement:

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Land inequality is the root of the conflict in Colombia

Petro's govt is speeding up justice for displaced people and re-distributing land

but with ongoing violence, displacement continues to rise in Colombia

My article for Latin America Bureau (LAB)

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Taking part in the excellent #WriteNow scheme back in 2018 was an incredibly useful experience and helped to set me on the road to writing Crossed Off the Map.

Applications are open now 👇🏽

Being shortlisted for #WriteNow back in 2018 was bit of a game changer for me in terms of confidence and craft etc. Six years later I’m now a Penguin author. Apply if you can! 🐧

Really enjoyed writing about two of my favourite things, travel and film photography, in my Financial Times HTSI debut!

🚨 BREAKING: This Government's cruel Rwanda Bill has just passed

Today will forever leave a stain on the UK’s moral reputation.

The UK has an obligation to provide safety to refugees. It's now vital that flights to Rwanda do not leave the tarmac.

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Saw someone reading my book today which made me smile. Speaking about it and wider issues about housing and racism London Met Uni on Wednesday 25th - free, but booking required, see link below.

Looking forward to the TravMedia UK Awards tonight. Chuffed to be up for Sustainability Writer of the Year for my pieces for BBC Travel, Geographical and Intrepid Times.

#TravMediaAwards

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This week we’re reading:

-Claudia Rivas A. and Antonia Laborde on the new president of Chile's Chamber of Deputies
-karen deyoung and Samantha Schmidt cover Washington’s reimposed sanctions on Venezuela
-Shafik Meghji on what it’s like to hike to the edge of the Earth

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Like so many others, Amnesty International’s fieldworker in Gaza has spent several months displaced from his home in the southernmost governorate of Rafah, where more than a million people have sought safety from Israel’s relentless bombardment.

SO excited to announce our 2024 shortlists for
1. Jhalak Prize
and
2. Jhalak C&YA Prize

Congratulations to all our shortlistees!
#jhalakprize 24 #jhalakprize

🥁Huge congratulations to Shafik Meghji for winning Consumer Feature of the Year Global (online/print) – for ‘First Nation experiences: a first-class way to support nature‘ published in The Standard at the #IGMAs 2024. Kindly sponsored by The Travel Festivals #TheTravFest

Publishing on April 25th. The incredible story of a 3,500-mile cycle ride to explore the onshore and offshore lighthouses around the coastline of England and Wales, proving that a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis doesn't mean giving up on a lifelong dream.

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‘Thank you, Ros Belford! This delightful memoir has brought back to me the wonder, the excitement and the challenges that come with embracing a new life in Sicily.’

Mary Taylor Simeti, author of On Persephone’s Island

Pink dolphins, rainforest walks, cookery classes and more: an excellent, informative round-up of First Nation experiences
By Shafik Meghji, commissioned by Juliet Kinsman The Standard
#IGMAs #PositiveImpactStorytelling
🧵 6/10
standard.co.uk/lifestyle/trav…

Overjoyed to receive the 2024 Inspire Global Outstanding Contribution award for positive impact storytelling
To celebrate, I’ve been reading (or re-reading) some of the brilliant stuff that other travel writers submitted to this year’s #IGMAs
A few personal favourites:
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