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When South Korean director Kim Tae-yun said he wanted to make a film about workers who came down with leukemia and other rare diseases during the time they worked at Samsung Electronics Co. factories, just about everyone told him he would struggle to secure financial backing. Two years later, the film has premiered at the ongoing Busan International Film Festival‒in part thanks to crowd-sourced funds from nearly 7,000 individuals who paid for more than a quarter of the billion-won ($932,700) budget. Close to half was self-funded and the rest has been made as IOUs. It marks a rare coup for Korean cinema, where independent producers struggle to secure funding without support from major film studios. Critics say close family and business ties between major movie companies and the nation’s biggest corporations prevent films with negative portrayals of those conglomerates from being made.

Dala Kitchen (More Than A Cookbook) is a celebration of the work of Cape Town Together. During 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of people came together to support one another in a range of creative and radically generous ways. Through a series of recipes, how-to's, articles and stories Dala Kitchen tells the story of Cape Town Together, the CANs that comprise it, and the people that are at the heart of the network. Together, these stories capture a moment in time and demonstrate that, in the words of Arundhati Roy "[a]nother world is not only possible, she is on her way.". The version on this website is a low resolution version- a higher resolution copy will replace this shortly.

Civil society organisations (CSOs) are facing increasing pressure to demonstrate their accountability, legitimacy and effectiveness. In response, a growing number are coming together at national, regional and international level, to define common standards and promote good practice through codes of conduct, certification schemes, reporting frameworks, directories and awards. This project provides the first comprehensive inventory of civil society self-regulatory initiatives worldwide. What does the database offer? The map and initiative search pages provide information on each initiative. Available information includes summaries, contact information, lists of participating organisations, full texts of initiatives, analysis of compliance mechanisms, similar initiatives, and assessments of the role of many initiatives within the CSO sector. Users can filter their search according to their particular needs, using criteria such as the location, type, and areas addressed of the initiative.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) have set up a searchable web-based bibliography database on mobile populations and HIV/AIDS. CADRE is a South African non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS social research, project development and communications. CADRE is hosting the database on their website: http://www.cadre.org.za Click on bibliographies in the menu, and put a tick mark left of the database HIV/AIDS and Mobile Populations in Southern Africa and search. Some search results have hyperlinks to electronic documents and other websites. If you have a new entry please email CADRE, they will update the database regularly.