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co-created with IPYS the multimedia report on children who suffer due to poor health services in
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to access their website. IPYS mentioned that they had developed some offline methods of communication in response, like holding informal public meetings in parks across the country and in bookshops to spread news. In an interview with
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website has been blocked on multiple occasions. Batiz said in August 2018 that none of the blocks thus far had been given an explanation, and that there had also been no reports against the website that would justify blocking it.
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tried to intervene to bring the reporters, among press personnel from multiple other media, into the building; several were allowed in but the security said the bar on
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that the order "came from above". Actions like this are in violation of
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press pass have been denied access to events, particularly covering government activities and elections; a security guard told one reporter he barred from the
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followed the lives of eight children all born in 2013, chosen because nutrition in the first 5 years of life is the most important. The report won the 2019
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reported that the results were "saddening" because of the clear irreversible damage suffered by the infants, one of whom died during the process.
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