Tag: social-media
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Burkina Faso bans big buttocks beauty contest
The government of Burkina Faso has banned an annual beauty contest for women with the biggest buttocks, saying such events are sexist. Adverts for this weekend’s third edition of ‘Miss Bim-Bim’, carrying an image of two fully clothed women with exaggeratedly large behinds, provoked an outcry on social media. “Our role is to do everything…
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Under attack, Indonesian LGBT groups set up safehouses, live in fear
By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – LGBT activists, facing a barrage of homophobia and hate speech by Indonesian authorities, are setting up hotlines and safehouses, while “unfriending” people on social media and deleting website directories that could expose them to violence. Indonesia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights groups have been active…
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Chipotle Massachusetts outlet shut after workers fall ill
(Reuters) – Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc, which is trying to recover from a series of food-borne illness outbreaks, temporarily shut a Massachusetts restaurant after four employees fell sick. The restaurant in the town of Billerica, outside Boston, was closed for a full cleaning, company spokesman Chris Arnold said by email. Chipotle's shares fell 3.8 percent…