Rina Chandran

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Rina Chandran joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation – the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, as a correspondent in India in January 2016. Prior to that, Rina was a business journalist for more than a dozen years in India, Singapore and New York, with Reuters, Bloomberg and the Financial Times. Rina has an MFA in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University and an MA in Business and Economics Reporting from New York University. She is now based in Bangkok, and covers land rights in Asia, including climate-change impacts and migration.

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Sri Lankan Tamil Women Fight for Land a Decade After War Ends

Women whose land was seized by the army during a long-running war are protesting to have their ancestral homes returned Maria Jeyaseelan sits outside her daughter’s home in northern Sri Lanka with her family after…
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After Four Decades of War, Afghan Widows Battle for Homes

KABUL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After her husband was killed and their home in Baghlan province torched in Afghanistan’s long-running war, Nasim Gul fled nearly 200 miles to Kabul with her four children and moved…