This is what Catherine Dela Cruz, Catholic volunteer engaged in Manila in assistance and solidarity programs promoted by the Church, confirms to Fides: “The poor are experiencing the uncertainty of food supply and the certainty of hunger. The poor communities in urban areas are heavily affected by the community quarantine. Many have lost their jobs and, with the lockdown imposed since 15 March, many have no way of obtaining food”.
This statement against racial injustice has largely been associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in July 2013 when George Zimmerman was acquitted of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed black teenager.
WHO’s Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the Executive Group of the Solidarity Trial had last week decided to implement a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm of the trial, “because of concerns raised about the safety of the drug.”
The arrests come as Myanmar’s military is increasingly using the country’s Counter-Terrorism Law to prosecute civilians and local officials for alleged ties to the rebel force. The army has been stepping up its offensives a 17-month-long campaign to crush the AA’s armed drive for greater autonomy for ethnic Rakhines in the state
The forecasts make for dismal reading. The coronavirus has wreaked havoc across the globe but one of the most alarming consequences of the potentially deadly pathogen will be a likely dramatic increase in poverty. According to major charities, banks and international agencies,as many as 420 million more people will slip into poverty this year — …
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An article by Yu Gui writing on qq.com has collected some of Zhidao Xuegong’s more outrageous articles, with the author commenting, “In my opinion, the principle of this account is that ‘there are no rumors too wild to spread; there are only rumors that you fail to think of.’”
During the past decade, crime scheme keeps increasing in a geometric rate within the academic milieu, students as well as teachers are been victimized. This social exacerbation or adolescent misconduct is related but not limited to: illicit drugs smuggling and substance abuse, weapons brought to school, bullying, non-respect of educational norms, and challenging school authorities (Masitsa, 2008: 236 – 237). For example, the knife carrying culture in the United Kingdom, of adolescent delinquents has caused more injuries and deaths than gunshot incidents (2008: 39). Where as in South Korea, youths are engaged in cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, linking it to the new economic cancer ‘cyber-crime’, which pose a serious challenge to the deeply conservative nation (Kim & Kim, 2008: 1– 15).
Addressing reporters on 1 Jun in Geneva, Tedros said the Congolese Government announced today that a new Ebola outbreak was detected near the city of Mbandaka in Équateur Province.
Xiao’s friend and fellow activist Liao Jianhao told RFA that his family were informed that he is under criminal detention when they went to inquire after him at the police station
In Charleston, South Carolina, protesters defaced a Confederate statue near The Battery, a historic area on the coastal city’s southern tip. The base of the Confederate Defenders statue, erected in 1932, was spray-painted, including with the words “BLM” and “traitors,” news outlets reported. It was later covered with tarp, photos show.