{"id":60747,"date":"2023-12-25T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/25\/we-can-be-heroes-the-inspiring-people-we-met-around-the-world-in-2023"},"modified":"2023-12-25T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:00:24","slug":"we-can-be-heroes-the-inspiring-people-we-met-around-the-world-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60747","title":{"rendered":"We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a karaoke-singing paramedic on a boat in Bangladesh to a proud campaigner for a queer museum in Namibia, these are some of the figures who raised our hopes for humanity<\/p>\n<p>Raquel Fortun is one of only two forensic pathologists in the Philippines. Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/they-were-shot-in-the-head-morgue-gives-up-truth-of-rodrigo-dutertes-drug-war\">I interviewed her <\/a>about her mission to discover the truth, and hopefully win justice, for the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s \u201cwar on drugs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/25\/we-can-be-heroes-the-inspiring-people-we-met-around-the-world-in-2023\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a karaoke-singing paramedic on a boat in Bangladesh to a proud campaigner for a queer museum in Namibia, these are some of the figures who raised our hopes for humanityRaquel Fortun is one of only two forensic pathologists in the Philippines. Earl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,1644,59,566,62,1203,1353,2729,212,399,440,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-gaza","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-inequality","category-inequality-and-development","category-lgbtq-rights","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-palestinian-territories","category-sexual-violence","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60748,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60747\/revisions\/60748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}