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Policy Change Jeopardizes Rights to Health, Life
30 August 2019 (Human Rights Watch)* — The Trump administration has axed a program that allowed immigrants with serious health conditions – including children and people with disabilities – and their families to remain in the United States while receiving life-saving medical treatment.
Photo credit: One PNG
Massive protests are currently taking place in West Papua, and news of victims on both sides has reached the media. A local indigenous organisation condemns the racist remarks and general stigmatisation of indigenous peoples in West Papua.
Thousands of people in West Papua have gone to the streets protesting against Indonesia’s government, and against the racism, they encounter in Indonesian society.
August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Men who have been thought of as philosophers and scientists have generated and perpetuated the myth that men and women are essentially different. Supposedly, men understand how to build and work with systems, while women are better empathizers. Many believe that males and females can be easily differentiated based on their intelligence, aggressiveness, mechanical skills, spatial visualization, empathy, agreeableness, communication skills and other characteristics1,2
Both sex and gender can affect brain and behavior, either independently or in interaction | Image from Wall Street International.
30 August 2019 (openDemocracy)* — As has now been widely reported, the Amazon rainforest is on fire due to a mixture of fires started for land clearance and the effects of climate change.
FAO trained over 1 000 community-based animal health workers across Afghanistan to carry out routine checkups, perform vaccinations and raise awareness about the prevention of contagious diseases through early treatment. ©FAO/Shah Marai
31 August 2019 (FAO)* — “My sheep and goats are my only source of income for my family. We consume their milk and meat and sell what’s left in the market to buy essential household and school items,” says Agha Ma, a female pastoralist in Balkh, Afghanistan.
On the run from the civil war, a boy named Gift is determined to continue his education. But his ingenuity, brilliance and determination may not be enough to keep him in school.
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South Sudanese refugees go back to school in Biringi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Rayan Hindi, producer, camera-editor / Thomas Freteur, camera)
30 August 219 (IOM)* — Mamadou, 18, left school and his village in Senegal’s Tambacounda when he was 12. “While I was in school, all I could think about was if I was going to eat when I got back home,” he explained. “Sometimes we would have breakfast and nothing else for the rest of the day. There were too many mouths to feed at home and I needed to do my part.”
Mamadou stays in the transit centre in Agadez, Niger to recover from his ordeal. Photo: IOM
Refugee children in their millions are missing out on an education, the UN said on Friday [30 August 2019], in an appeal to host countries to back more inclusive policies to prevent them from “languishing” in camps for years and losing hope.
For the far right, it is the weak link through which it can carry out its attack on the European Union
29 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — A series of recent events has unveiled increasingly disturbing signs that far- right internationalism is turning Portugal into a strategic target.
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