Maintenance. We are currently updating the site. Please check back shortly

Latest

Astrid Zweynert

Deputy Editor

Astrid Zweynert is an award-winning journalist, editor and social media specialist with a passion for online storytelling. She is deputy editor of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world's leading provider of news and information. Astrid drives coverage for the foundation's global news services covering humanitarian issues, climate change, women's rights, corruption, good governance, social innovation, media development and pro bono legal assistance.

Read my full profile.

ON THE AGENDA: From greenhouse gases to forced marriage
By Astrid Zweynert
From India's deadly floods, to an exclusive report on climate change and a look at women's rights in the United States, see what our correspondents are working on this week
Your city - one of the world's 100 most resilient?
By Astrid Zweynert
With more than half of world population in cities, new challenge aims to push citizens, governments and the private sector to work together to build resilience
Social entrepreneurs - as famous as the Kardashians?
By Astrid Zweynert
Why has social innovation not made a bigger splash in mainstream media, you may wonder, given that so much groundbreaking work is being done in the sector?
Jeff Skoll's top 10 events in social enterprise
By Astrid Zweynert
"A good start" on a world where all children are educated, pandemics are history and weapons are only in antique shops
Get the balance right between sanitation and water-Red Cross
By Astrid Zweynert
Sanitation activities should be at least as well funded as water supply efforts, the Red Cross argues in a new report
The power of innovative philanthropic microfinancing to ...
By Astrid Zweynert
Matt Damon and Gary White of water.org explain how harnessing the power of philanthropic microfinancing and innovative nonprofit marketing can help improve access to water and sanitation.
Everyday sexism sparks Aufschrei Twitter storm in Germany
By Astrid Zweynert
Heated debate about sexism in Germany
TIMELINE: Human rights in 2012 - Amnesty
By Astrid Zweynert
Human rights have taken a battering in 2012, an Amnesty timeline of key abuses shows
What does what you eat have to do with climate change?
By Astrid Zweynert
?Big Facts" website spells out how food choices and problems like hurricanes, heat, floods and drought are connected
Anti-Poverty, World Food Day: too many to be meaningful
By astrid-zweynert
There are hundreds of international days of observance every year - do we really need them?