03/05/2020
3 May 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Is there moral judgment in animals, monkeys in particular, as in humans? The question is not misplaced and let’s see why.
First of all, in order to possess moral judgment, one must possess certain mental functions that until recently were considered exclusively human.
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03/05/2020
SANA’A/ADEN (UNICEF)* – Over 5 million children under the age of five in Yemen are facing a heightened threat of cholera and Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) as the country continues to experience increased heavy rains since mid-April. More than 110,000 cases of suspected cholera have been recorded across 290 of Yemen’s 331 districts since January 2020. Children under the age of five account for a quarter of these cases.
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03/05/2020
2 May 2020 (UN News)* — The United Nations Childen’s Fund (UNICEF) welcomed the landmark move by Sudan’s transitional government this week to criminalize female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), with a three-year jail sentence for offenders.
UNICEF/Kate Holt | The Saleema initiative, launched in 2008 by the National Council of Child Welfare and UNICEF Sudan, supports the protection of girls from genital cutting.
“This practice is not only a violation of every girl child’s rights, it is harmful and has serious consequences for a girl’s physical and mental health,” said Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Sudan. Sometimes called female circumcision, the traditional practice involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for no medical reason.
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