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Irene Caselli

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Covers:  Early childhood, parenting, sexuality, gender, health, childhood
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Tapping the same tune (Or: the principles behind my work and how you can help me) - The First 1,0...

Tapping the same tune (Or: the principles behind my work and how you can help me) - The First 1,0...

The First 1,000 Days —
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The first 1,000 days are my life's mission. I want everyone to care as much as I do - The First 1...

The first 1,000 days are my life's mission. I want everyone to care as much as I do - The First 1...

The First 1,000 Days — Inequality starts early in life. If we take on the first-1,000-day prism to look at society around us, we can push to create change.
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Dear parents, stop organising your kids' playtime

Dear parents, stop organising your kids' playtime

The Correspondent — 2020 has been a trying year for parents, with many struggling to arrange a schedule for schooling and playtime. The good news: play doesn't need to be planned - and it shouldn't be. On World Children's Day, it's the perfect time to remember and value the importance of play.
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Breast milk is free (and five other myths about breastfeeding debunked)

Breast milk is free (and five other myths about breastfeeding debunked)

The Correspondent — From the series Milky Way by Vincent Ferrané // modds "Your mother breastfed you until the age of four?! Yuck!" I was in my early twenties, sitting on a cushion on the floor of the living room of my flat in Santiago, Chile.
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Human milk is the first intelligent superfood. We need to know the science of this medicinal marv...

Human milk is the first intelligent superfood. We need to know the science of this medicinal marv...

The Correspondent — So how much do we actually know about breast milk - besides the facts that it's good for babies, isn't always produced as easily or as readily as we'd like (or often believe), and that progressive societies are still trying to figure out ways that babies of working parents can be breastfed?
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Meet the parenting expert who thinks parenting is a terrible invention

Meet the parenting expert who thinks parenting is a terrible invention

The Correspondent — There's no shortage of books, magazines and websites offering parenting advice. But the idea that parents can turn children into better and more successful adults if only they use the right methods is completely misguided, says developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik.
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Understanding this will help you fight less with your kids at home

Understanding this will help you fight less with your kids at home

The Correspondent — My parents are proud collectors of everyday objects from around the world - think of locks, scales, antique irons. But also postcards, maps, paper dolls, fridge magnets and pottery. And silver jewels, kitchen utensils, wooden musical instruments. Not even the ceilings are spared: old iron hooks that used to hang hams dangle in the kitchen.
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Jacinda Ardern was mocked for telling kids the Tooth Fairy is an essential worker. But here's why...

Jacinda Ardern was mocked for telling kids the Tooth Fairy is an essential worker. But here's why...

The Correspondent — Once upon a time, there lived people who thought politics was just for grownups. But young people have a clear worldview of their own - and their moral clarity could be just what we need to shake up stagnant political systems.
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The birth of a movement: how activists are winning the battle to make abortion a right

The birth of a movement: how activists are winning the battle to make abortion a right

The Correspondent — Despite the sometimes deadly consequences, church and state have always made sure abortion was legally restricted in Argentina. But the tide is turning. By engaging with young people and building a diverse coalition, pro-choice activists are forcing the government to act.
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Trauma can be inherited. We need to understand what we're passing on

Trauma can be inherited. We need to understand what we're passing on

The Correspondent — Image editor Lise Straatsma searched for the old photographs that accompany this piece. These photos show moments from people's lives. The physical damage - stains, creases and bits missing - changes what is left of the 'memory'. Photo: Flickr / Simpleinsomnia It started with a slip of the tongue.
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Eat, play, love: Just how much are you shaped by your first 1,000 days of life?

Eat, play, love: Just how much are you shaped by your first 1,000 days of life?

The Correspondent — Isaura is nine months old and likes to sleep in the starfish position. She's spent her short life in the Aquiles Serdán female state prison in Chihuahua City, Mexico, where she takes up most of the space on the bunk bed she shares with her mother.
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Mexican pastor saves orphans from gangs and drugs

Mexican pastor saves orphans from gangs and drugs

dw.com — Ciudad Juarez, on the border between Mexico and the US, was once dubbed the world's murder capital and it's estimated that over 10,000 orphans were left behind because of these murders. Meet Pastor Martin Nunez, who himself had a rough childhood and now tries to give these children the stability and warmth that he lacked when growing up.
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Abortion bill galvanizes Argentina's youth to fight

Abortion bill galvanizes Argentina's youth to fight

dw.com — Julieta Poo, a 15-year-old secondary school student, is getting her face painted green outside of Argentina's Congress while young women chant "legal abortion in the hospital." Poo wears a symbolic green bandana that reads: "Sexual education to decide, contraceptives to prevent abortion, legal abortion to prevent death."
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A woman's game: Fatim Jawara

A woman's game: Fatim Jawara

Al Jazeera — Fatim Jawara was a young goalkeeper with a lot of promise in The Gambia. She was 15 when her national under-17 team qualified for the World Cup in 2012. But being a female professional football player in The Gambia was not easy. There was no official salary and Jawara was teased for being "too manly".
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A woman's game: Nadia Nadim

A woman's game: Nadia Nadim

Al Jazeera — Nadia Nadim fled Afghanistan with her mother and four sisters after the Taliban killed her father. Their journey took them to Denmark, whom Nadia now represents at international level. This is the second episode in the three-part series "A Woman's Game". Each episode features women from different parts of the world who dedicated their lives to football, a sport dominated by men. This short won the Hostwriter Prize 2018 for collaborative journalism.
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A woman's game: Marta Vieira da Silva

A woman's game: Marta Vieira da Silva

Al Jazeera — People in town used to tell Marta that she wasn't normal because she was the only girl playing in football tournaments. "Of course, I'm not normal," she says. Now, she's a five-time FIFA World Player of the Year. This is the first episode in the three-part series "A Woman's Game".
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Taking on the untouchables: an interview with Italian journalist Federica Angeli

Taking on the untouchables: an interview with Italian journalist Federica Angeli

Index on Censorship — An interview with the Italian journalist who lives under 24-hour police protection following her exposé of the mafia in the pretty Italian seaside resort of Ostia.
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Samalayuca dunes: From no-go area to hot destination

Samalayuca dunes: From no-go area to hot destination

bbc.com — The Samalayuca sand dunes are considered one of Mexico's best-kept secrets. With their stunning views and endemic vegetation, they have plenty of potential to attract tourists, nature lovers and sand boarders. But their location, just 50km (30 miles) south of Ciudad Juárez, means few venture out here as many are put off by the Mexican city's high murder rate.
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Drug dens v safe houses: the fight over Ciudad Juárez's abandoned houses

Drug dens v safe houses: the fight over Ciudad Juárez's abandoned houses

The Guardian — In three years, 10,000 people were killed in Juárez - and a quarter of its houses abandoned to gangs. Can the city's young people reclaim those spaces for themselves?
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The Mexican doctor rehydrating the dead

The Mexican doctor rehydrating the dead

bbc.com — Rosa María Apodaca has spent the past six years looking for her eldest daughter. Patricia Jazmín Ibarra was 18 when she left on the morning of 7 June 2011 to go to work at a mobile phone shop in the centre of Ciudad Juárez.
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Suicide in Ciudad Juarez: Where life has little value

Suicide in Ciudad Juarez: Where life has little value

bbc.com — Ciudad Juarez, the border city in northern Mexico which between 2008 and 2011 had the dubious reputation of being the murder capital of the world, has seen its homicide rate fall since 2012. But as Irene Caselli reports, the city's high levels of violence have had long-term psychological effects on its residents, especially its youth.
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