Covid-19 Pandemic has Demonstrated that Menstrual Hygiene Is a Multifaceted Challenge in India
Lack of access to period products is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on period health.
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Lack of access to period products is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on period health.
World may reach 1.5°C warming by 2025; Climate scientists: Concept of Net Zero by 2050 is a dangerous trap.
It can unequivocally be asserted that the Palestinian resistance scored a major victory, arguably unprecedented in its proud history. This is the first time that Israel has been forced to accept that the rules of the game have changed, likely forever.
Israel’s attacks on Iran’s enrichment plants, critical infrastructure, and scientific and military personnel, could spill over into a catastrophic war. The world must demand that Israel disarm its nuclear weapons and place its nuclear facilities under the same scrutiny as demanded from Iran.
The struggle, which began in rejection of a neoliberal tax reform bill, has transformed into a social uprising in Colombia demanding structural changes and an end to policies that deepen inequality and deprive the majority of the population of basic rights. Mothers are in the frontlines of the struggle.
Food security and food sovereignty are key elements in reducing poverty and guarding against hunger and external economic shocks. Coming from the campesino social movements, Evo Morales was aware of this and made it a priority after coming to power. Bolivia now produces 95% of what it consumes.
The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world.
US efforts to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the USA raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions.
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, fought in Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s media apparatus.
Alexander Norton interviews Keith Lamb on how China’s self-proclaimed socialist system measures up to the expectations of a Western socialist expat from Scotland who has lived through almost two decades of drastic change in the world’s emerging superpower.
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