Lebanon — Powerful new explosions rocked Beirut's southern suburbs late Saturday as Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon also striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in the north for the first time as it targeted both Hezbollah and Hamas fighters continued to flee the widening conflict in the region while rallies were held around the world marking the approaching anniversary of the start of the war in Gaza The strong explosions began near midnight and continued into Sunday after Israel's military urged residents to evacuate areas in Dahiyeh the predominantly Shiite collection of suburbs on Beirut’s southern edge AP video showed the blasts illuminating the densely populated southern suburbs They followed a day of sporadic strikes and the nearly continuous buzz of reconnaissance drones Israel's military confirmed it was striking targets near Beirut and said about 30 projectiles had crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory The strikes reportedly targeted a building near a road leading to Lebanon’s only international airport and another building formerly used by the Hezbollah-run broadcaster Al-Manar Social media reports claimed that one of the strikes hit an oxygen tank storage facility but this was later denied by the owner of the company Khaled Kaddouha Hezbollah claimed in a statement that it successfully targeted a group of Israeli soldiers near the Manara settlement in northern Israel “with a large rocket salvo Israel's attack on the northern Beddawi camp killed an official with Hamas’ military wing along with his wife and two young daughters Hamas later said another military wing member was killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley Israel has killed several Hamas officials in Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war began in addition to most of the top leadership of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah as fighting has sharply escalated have been killed and 1.2 million driven from their homes in less than two weeks Israel says it aims to drive the militant group away from shared borders so displaced Israelis can return to their homes began firing rockets into Israel almost immediately after Hamas’ Oct calling it a show of support for the Palestinians Hezbollah and Israel's military have traded fire almost daily Israel launched what it called a limited ground operation into southern Lebanon after a series of attacks killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others The fighting is the worst since Israel and Hezbollah fought a brief war in 2006 Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in the ground clashes that Israel says have killed 440 Hezbollah fighters told reporters in Damascus that “we are trying to reach a cease-fire in Gaza and in Lebanon.” The minister said the unnamed countries putting forward initiatives include regional states and some outside the Middle East Araghchi spoke a day after the supreme leader of Iran praised its recent missile strikes on Israel and said it was ready to do it again if necessary Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “Israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to these attacks Israel’s military earlier Saturday said about 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory but several fell in the northern Arab town of Deir al-Asad where police said three people were lightly injured At least six people in Lebanon were killed in more than a dozen Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Saturday according to the Lebanese state-run National News Agency Nearly 375,000 people have fled from Lebanon into Syria in less than two weeks according to a Lebanese government committee Associated Press journalists saw hundreds continuing to cross the Masnaa Border Crossing on foot crunching over the rubble after Israeli airstrikes left huge craters in the road leading to it on Thursday Much of Hezbollah’s weaponry is believed to come from Iran through Syria “We were on the road for two days,” said Issa Hilal one of many Syrian refugees in Lebanon who are now heading back “The roads were very crowded … it was very difficult We almost died getting here." Some children whimpered or cried Other displaced families now shelter alongside Beirut’s famous seaside Corniche their wind-flapped tents just steps from luxury homes but we don’t want to die at the hands of Netanyahu,” said Om Ali Mcheik The Israeli military said special forces were carrying out ground raids against Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon It said troops dismantled tunnel shafts that Hezbollah used to approach the Israeli border Almost 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during the war which does not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths Almost 90% of Gaza’s residents are displaced Palestinian medical officials said Israeli strikes in northern and central Gaza on Saturday killed at least nine people One in the northern town of Beit Hanoun killed at least five Another hit a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp Israel's military did not have any immediate comment but has long accused Hamas of operating from within civilian areas An Israeli airstrike killed two children in Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighborhood according to the civil defense first responders’ group that operates under the Hamas-run government Israel's military warned Palestinians to evacuate along the strategic Netzarim corridor in central Gaza that was at the heart of obstacles to a cease-fire deal The military told people in parts of the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps to evacuate to Muwasi a coastal area it has designated a humanitarian zone It’s unclear how many Palestinians are in those areas Israeli forces have often returned to areas in Gaza to target Hamas fighters as they regroup Become an NPR sponsor Which language would you like to use this site in Oumar Sylla (also known as Fonike Mengue) is a prominent member of the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) a coalition that was created following President Alpha Conde’s announcement that he would be running for a third term Fonike Mengue was arrested on 29 September 2020 while campaigning against President Conde’s third term run He was sentenced to 11 months after spending 4 months in pre-trial detention Foniké has been on a hunger strike since 25 December 2020 to demand a trial Together we can fight for human rights everywhere Your donation can transform the lives of millions If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you a key Joe Biden pledge was to undo Donald Trump’s hardline border and migration measures including a restoration of the right to seek protection in the United States the Biden campaign indicated that it would do the following: WOLA strongly backs all of these measures and hopes to see them implemented The problem is that the Biden administration faces significant obstacles in keeping some of these promises The first is that the Trump administration has left Biden’s incoming administration with almost no infrastructure at the border to receive asylum seekers in an orderly way meaning there will be even less infrastructure than before to receive and process migrants and asylum seekers COVID-19 adds to this challenge. The pandemic is severely testing asylum and refugee protections worldwide; in many countries, the systems for taking in asylum seekers are still only partially operational asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border have virtually no options: ports of entry are turning nearly every undocumented person away regardless of protection needs nearly anyone who crosses the southern border to petition for asylum is promptly repatriated or forced back to Mexico (although in late November a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling children who’ve crossed the border unaccompanied in search of protection) [simple_quote quote=”The Biden administration doesn’t want its first 100 days’ agenda overtaken by images of thousands of migrants crossing the border and packed into Border Patrol stations We may already be seeing the beginning of this surge in migration, given recent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. October 2020 saw the largest number of people apprehended at the border since July 2019—the greatest number of apprehensions for the month of October since 2005 Apprehension data from Mexico suggests the same: the number of migrants detained in October represented a 37 percent increase from September; it was the highest number of people detained since January The Biden administration doesn’t want its first 100 days’ agenda overtaken by images of thousands of migrants crossing the border and packed into Border Patrol stations. The incoming government may decide to keep in place the CDC’s Title 42 restrictions in order to limit how many migrants are taken into U.S and natural disasters are forcing so many people to flee their homes is tragic—but for the United States and its government it should be less of a crisis than an administrative challenge We can deal with this administrative challenge with a series of long-overdue policies spanning three timeframes personnel—should be able to petition for asylum at ports of entry There should be no reason for this population to feel as though their only shot at a fair asylum process is to cross “without inspection” between the ports To improve processing capacity at the U.S.-Mexico border U.S. officials need to be able to promptly input the asylum seeker’s personal and biometric information and ensure that they can have a prompt “credible fear” interview with a USCIS asylum officer asylum seekers should be given a notice to appear in immigration court and released on parole asylum seekers should be placed in an alternative-to-detention program as they await their hearing lack the capacity to receive large numbers of asylum seekers For this processing to take place more efficiently the United States would need temporary facilities near select ports of entry These are places where protection-seeking migrants In parts of the border that historically have seen significant arrivals of asylum seekers (such as the Rio Grande Valley these facilities shouldn’t even be temporary—the U.S government should build permanent processing centers here like the one that already exists (under renovation) in McAllen and the one coming online in El Paso Especially in the short term, facilities will probably start out as tents or “soft-sided” facilities if there is a wave of migrants. But they need not be the dehumanizing, chain-link-fence “cages” like those built during the Obama years Detention should be treated as a last resort, not the default option. The current model of locking up tens of thousands of asylum seekers in detention centers isn’t just expensive and inhumane—during a historic pandemic, it’s a major public health risk. Public health experts have outlined ways to uphold asylum rights while also protecting public health Central to this strategy is investing in alternatives to detention Rather than being kept for months in overcrowded detention centers in squalid conditions that facilitate the spread of disease asylum seekers can be released into the U.S interior to await their hearings in immigration court they must meet or check in regularly with case officers who not only monitor their whereabouts but connect them with services case management might be augmented with GPS monitoring devices though it makes no sense to require their use for long periods if contact with caseworkers is regular [simple_quote quote=”There is no justification for locking up children and families…” /] saw 91 percent of participants attend their court hearings By comparison, ICE’s budget presentations to Congress show that it costs $125 per day to detain an adult Many asylum seekers may already have relatives or other support networks in the United States—they should be released to stay with these contacts while awaiting their immigration hearings Some will deride alternative-to-detention programs as “catch and release” (a term that is inherently misleading for implying that asylum seekers are being released without any screening or monitoring process But if alternative-to-detention programs are empowered to keep people in the system if asylum cases are adjudicated as quickly as due process allows and if those who lose their cases after receiving a fair hearing with adequate criteria are repatriated the population of asylum seekers without legitimate claims will decline Wait times for immigration hearings and decisions are ridiculously long. As of October 2020, there are over 1.2 million pending immigration cases in the United States and only about 520 judges To address this backlog and long wait times, the United States needs to invest in judicial capacity—hiring and training more immigration judges and staff while not pressing the courts to rule hastily in sensitive and complex asylum cases establishing an immigration court system that is independent of the DOJ can help ensure that all migrants and asylum seekers receive due process and a fair hearing The mass training and hiring of immigration judges and staff will take time. It will be an administrative bottleneck, but getting past it is essential for addressing the badly broken asylum system in the United States The Mexican government has a central role to play in addressing regional migration flows The Biden administration can help reverse the cruelties seen under the Trump administration rights-respecting approach to migration with actions that include:  This population may see Biden’s election as an opportunity to travel back to the U.S.-Mexico border and appeal their case This means there will be a need for the United States and Mexico to work together and develop a way for this population to access transit visas in order to facilitate their travels through Mexico and to coordinate on messaging about the timetable for the drawdown of this program and who is being accepted for admission at the border Both countries should develop procedures for ensuring that asylum seekers who are not safe in Mexico or unaccompanied children with U.S.-based family members (Read more about recommendations for the Biden administration and the Mexican government on migration here) President Trump has cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in critical aid to countries like El Salvador assistance limits the reach and effectiveness of essential programs that address the root causes of migration The Biden campaign has said it would develop “a comprehensive four-year $4 billion regional strategy to address factors driving migration from Central America.” The development of a sustainable strategy to address the main drivers of migration from the region—violence climate change—is central to long-term efforts in addressing migration the Biden administration should include the following actions: Improving governance and tackling endemic corruption must be at the heart of U.S especially given that under the Trump administration the region saw widespread efforts to undermine rule of law and reverse recent gains in tackling corruption and impunity government should embrace its potential to more aggressively support efforts to combat impunity and corruption in Central America This means leading by example domestically It means both the executive branch and Congress provide support for reformers within and outside of government It requires exerting pressure on Central American governments to uphold the rule of law and undertake essential institutional reforms And it calls for close collaboration with civil society organizations that specialize in anti-impunity This means using tools such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) State Department designations of corruption and Treasury Department targeted sanctions under the Office of Foreign Assets Control government should funnel assistance to expand evidence-based community-level programs to reduce youth crime and violence reintegrate youth seeking to leave the influence of street gangs and criminal groups government should support evidence-based employment creation and job training programs that focus on at-risk youth in targeted communities Aid should be directed toward bolstering policing capacity overall (such as police investigation techniques as well as to enhancing the independence and capabilities of prosecutors and judges by supporting merit-based evaluation and disciplinary systems and ensuring adequate protection for judges These short, medium, and long-term proposals aren’t that heavy a lift, if the U.S. government fully commits to them. Compared to the more than $11 billion that went into Trump’s border wall the short-term measures are far less costly The most complicated phase will be the beginning. The United States is facing down a deadly peak in the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks largely to government mismanagement. As the country confronts what will likely be a record-breaking coronavirus death toll throughout the winter and into the spring the U.S.-Mexico border will likely face a wave of protection-seeking migration This will create pressure to go slow on dismantling the cruel and ineffective Trump-era measures Unless the U.S. government deploys these five regional migration strategies, COVID-19 could portend another humanitarian crisis on our border. Read more here. It will take time to install even the short-term infrastructure proposed in this piece which Congress must appropriate and/or the Biden White House must transfer from other DHS accounts—such as funds currently dedicated to wall-building or ICE detention In the meantime, as the capacity to administer asylum quickly comes online, the Biden administration should recommence the asylum process in a way that is calibrated with this expanding capacity and adopt measures recommended by experts to ensure access to asylum while safeguarding public health in the midst of a pandemic This probably means starting with particularly vulnerable people waiting in Mexican border cities under the “Remain in Mexico” program and the over 15,000 asylum seekers who have spent months on waitlists to request asylum at a port of entry The Biden administration can fully dismantle Trump’s cruel and inhumane migration policies and coordinated plan across all three timeframes civil society and concerned members of Congress can ensure that the Biden White House takes the first critical steps Stand up for human rights on both sides of the border Join the Beyond the Wall Campaign Subscribe to get the latest on analysis and policy Washington Office on Latin America1666 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 400Washington, DC 20009(202) 797 2171info@wola.org Subscribe with your email to receive exclusive reports and expert research directly to your inbox every week (Your privacy is important to us; your information will be kept confidential and secure.) The COVID-19 pandemic could be defeated this year but only if vaccines tests and treatments are made available to all people UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday.  The UN chief was among world leaders calling for $23 billion to support the ACT-Accelerator, the landmark collaboration that makes these goods accessible to everyone globally.  “Vaccine inequity is the biggest moral failure of our times – and people are paying the price,” said Mr “Until and unless we can ensure access to these tools and the sense of insecurity of people will only deepen.”  The ACT-Accelerator was established in April 2020, just weeks after the pandemic was declared, to speed up development and access to COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines. The global vaccine solidarity initiative COVAX is one of its four pillars.  The partnership brings together governments, scientists, philanthropists, businesses, civil society and global health organizations such as GAVI, the vaccine alliance; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the UN’s health agency, WHO.  The campaign launched on Wednesday aims to meet a $16 billion financing gap and nearly $7 billion for in-country delivery costs in the bid to end the pandemic as a global emergency this year.  The co-chairs of the ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council which provides high-level political leadership to advocate for resource mobilization recently wrote to more than 50 rich countries to encourage “fair share” contributions.  The financing framework is calculated on the size of their national economies and what they would gain from a faster global economic and trade recovery.  As the Secretary-General put it: “If we want to ensure vaccinations for everyone to end this pandemic we must first inject fairness into the system.”   The funding will help to curb coronavirus transmission relieve overburdened health workers and systems the global economy stands to lose almost four times the investment the ACT-Accelerator needs.  Financing will be used to procure and provide lifesaving tools and personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers It will support measures that include driving vaccine rollouts creating a Pandemic Vaccine Pool of 600 million doses procuring treatments for 120 million patients and 100 per cent of the oxygen needs of low-income countries.  “The longer inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines the longer the pandemic will persist,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa who co-chairs the Facilitation Council together with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.  The UN and partners continue to warn against the dangers of inequity three years into the pandemic.  Although more than 4.7 billion COVID-19 tests have been administered globally so far only 10 per cent of people in these nations have received at least one vaccine dose.  “Science has consistently delivered throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic but tragically the world’s scientific achievements have not yet been matched by equity,” said Dr “A fully funded ACT-Accelerator will enable COVAX and the other ACT-A pillars to redouble their efforts to get vaccines therapeutics and other countermeasures to those who need them while also continuing vital R&D (research and development) which will address current gaps in scientific knowledge and strengthen the world’s defences against the virus and its variants.”  the ACT-Accelerator has funded vital research and development of new therapeutics and delivered over a billion vaccine doses through COVAX The mechanism has an overall budget of $23.4 billion and donors are urged to contribute $16.8 billion  It is expected that the remaining $6.5 billion will be self-financed by middle-income countries.  another $ 6.8 billion is required for in-country delivery of vaccines and diagnostics.   WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that the rapid spread of the Omicron variant has underlined the urgent need to ensure ensure tests treatments and vaccines are distributed equitably globally.  “If higher-income countries pay their fair share of the ACT-Accelerator costs the partnership can support low and middle-income countries to overcome low COVID-19 vaccination levels “Science gave us the tools to fight COVID-19; if they are shared globally in solidarity we can end COVID-19 as a global health emergency this year.”  The triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution is worsening, the deputy UN chief told a new coordination meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Thursday, reminding that the world has less than nine years left to reach the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is an ENERGY STAR-certified and LEED-certified green building and Samsung invites people to continue making everyday changes that have a meaningful impact that means providing a #DramaFreeDropOff that lets people responsibly say goodbye to electronics they are no longer in love with While it is difficult to part ways with your first phone or the controller you used to win your favorite game, we want to make it a little easier. Instead of haphazardly throwing these devices into the trash to go to the landfill, you can easily recycle them at over 1,700 Samsung drop-off locations across the country to contribute to a greener future your old tech products will add to the 1.2 billion pounds of e-waste Samsung has repurposed or recycled in the U.S the most common e-waste that people recycled were TVs On June 5th, Samsung is teaming up with popular content creator Axel Webber to encourage people to break up with their unused tech for a #DramaFreeDropOff. TikTok users can come on down to Samsung 837 in New York City with your unloved and unwanted devices and get ready to create Samsung will responsibly recycle all of your old tech World Environment Day promotes driving transformative One way Samsung aligns to this commitment is by making recycling e-waste convenient and simple through takeback options for both Samsung and non-Samsung products Since 2008, Samsung has been committed to responsible recycling which includes specifying their recycler’s adherence to third-party audited certification standards like E-Stewards designed to promote best practices for global e-waste recycling The company strives to ensure that non-working electronic scrap is handled properly and never exported to the developing world Click here to learn more about Samsung’s commitment to a sustainable future and get involved with the #DramaFreeDropOff Challenge. 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All Rights Reserved. A Division of NBCUniversal Data also provided by Millions of domestic workers have been told to keep working or been laid off without pay Now their families are fighting back against a ‘structurally racist’ system has made the four-hour round bus trip from the working-class area of Baixada Fluminense to the city’s affluent South Zone to work as a maid But when Covid-19 arrived in Brazil She feared her 57-year-old mother’s life could be at risk if she kept going to work at two different homes but knew she would lose her income if she didn’t França rallied the sons and daughters of other maids to launch the campaign “for the lives of our mothers” with a manifesto calling for guaranteed protection for the health and jobs of the country’s domestic workers during the pandemic Their petition demanding that all of Brazil’s maids – mainly poor mostly black women – be granted immediate “paid quarantine” has gathered more than 87,000 signatures and touched a nerve in a country where the working arrangements for maids are often seen as a legacy of slavery and reflection of deep inequality The campaign comes amid a furious debate about class and privilege in Brazil after 63-year-old housekeeper Cleonice Gonçalves became the first person in Rio to die of coronavirus which she is believed to have caught from her employer in the upmarket area of Leblon Her employer had reportedly just returned from holiday in Italy but Gonçalves had no idea that she was ill and was not offered the chance to stay away Since then domestic workers across the country have shared stories of employers arbitrarily dismissing them “Just come at a different time so you can avoid rush hour” Some say their employers have demanded they move in to ensure they don’t get infected elsewhere even though this would mean leaving their own families “My boss wouldn’t let me go [stay off work] so I could stay at home and not get this disease. But neither did she buy a mask or alcohol [sanitiser],” writes one woman in a Facebook group for domestic maids that has 162,000 followers Domestic workers in Brazil often face prejudice and lack job protection Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFPAnother writes: “I’m at home My boss let me go so I wouldn’t pass on the virus [if I got it] but she told me she wasn’t going to pay me for the time I was off I don’t know what to do … Can she really do that – send me home and not pay my wages?” The day after Gonçalves died, the government recommended that employers put domestic workers on paid leave from all but “indispensable” services. A provisional law has been introduced allowing employers to reduce maids’ hours and suspend their contracts for up to 60 days with an emergency fund to cover loss of income some employers insist that domestic workers keep providing the services they don’t want to take care of themselves The situation is especially precarious for the millions of domestic workers without formal papers including more than 2 million diaristas (daily workers) whose average wage of 120 reais (£17) a day may sustain their whole family which retweets insults and criticism made by those they work for Our bodies are affected daily by this racist societyJuliana FrançaThe national union of domestic workers (Fenetrad) has stressed the danger many are now facing “Domestic workers are among those most exposed to the risks of contracting Covid-19 are in regular contact with others … and don’t have the option of working from home “They earn on average less than the minimum wage and only around 30% have a formal contract leaving them more exposed to abuse and violation of their rights.” “We have a history of almost four centuries of slavery in this country we live in a society that is structurally racist You are going to say to me: ‘But I didn’t enslave anyone’ but you benefit from the privileges inherited through this context of slavery Just as our bodies – black and from the periphery – are affected daily by this racist society.” During the pandemic, this lack of empathy could cost lives, she wrote. “This is the moment to practise empathy for someone who has spent their life leaving everything clean and organised for you and your family. In the era of the pandemic, empathy will be vital to stop the spread of disease.” Read moreAfter Caterina’s employers were shown the manifesto from França’s campaign, they agreed to give her paid time off. “She is safe at home, though anxious about the virus,” says França, who believes her campaign will help usher in lasting change for domestic workers. “When we have gone through this pandemic, we will be stronger in our demand for the rights for domestic workers because this situation has proven how these women, especially daily maids, are neglected by the state. We will secure a law that ensures proper support for domestic workers in future situations like this.” Occupying a restored former warehouse near Campanhã rail station in one of the city’s most authentically gritty neighbourhoods this gallery has a carefully put together programme of shows featuring emerging or little- known Portuguese artists Alongside it there are two other warehouses with changing art displays Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Campaigners say removing statue of British colonialist is small part of tackling racism at Oxford and would help address UK’s ‘imperial blind spot’ Oxford students fighting to have a statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College have said the row over his legacy demonstrates Britain’s “imperial blind spot” and criticised the university’s record on black and ethnic minorities The Rhodes Must Fall group last week succeeded in persuading the college to move a plaque dedicated to him and consult on whether to take down his statue from the Grade II-listed building but the students behind it have said they hope to widen their campaign. Read moreBrian Kwoba, a 33-year-old doctoratal student at Oxford and one of the campaign’s organisers, said he and fellow students were inspired by recent events in South Africa, when students at the University of Cape Town hurled buckets of excrement and paint over a statue of Rhodes that was eventually removed “Cecil Rhodes is responsible for all manner of stealing land massacring tens of thousands of Black Africans imposing a regime of unspeakable labour exploitation in the diamond mines and devising proto-apartheid policies,” Kwoba said “The significance of taking down the statue is simple: Cecil Rhodes is the Hitler of southern Africa Would anyone countenance a statue of Hitler The fact that Rhodes is still memorialised with statues plaques and buildings demonstrates the size and strength of Britain’s imperial blind spot.” Oxford in the 1870s before returning to South Africa It was there that he founded the De Beers diamond empire became one of the world’s wealthiest men and rose to be premier of the then Cape Colony in 1890 Classicist Mary Beard believes the statue should stay and students must be empowered ‘to look up at Rhodes and friends with a cheery and self confident sense of unbatterability’ Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex ShutterstockThe British imperialist is now chiefly remembered for beginning the policy of enforced racial segregation in South Africa and for his belief in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race His reputation causes particular problems for Oxford where the statue sands on campus and his name is still present on the Rhodes Scholarships for international students Some academics responded to the campaign by arguing that fighting over the statue is irrelevant. Mary Beard, the classicist, said in a piece for the Times Literary Supplement: “The battle isn’t won by taking the statue away and pretending those people didn’t exist It’s won by empowering those students to look up at Rhodes and friends with a cheery and self confident sense of unbatterability.” but destroying symbols of the past is quite another.” But students involved in the campaign say the battle is far wider than a debate about history said the subject was also about the future “I joined the Rhodes Must Fall campaign in my second week at Oxford after attending a meeting held by the group,” she said “This isn’t just a campaign against Cecil Rhodes – it’s a campaign against racism at Oxford of which the Rhodes statue is a small but symbolic part.” Of Oxford’s undergraduate students, 13% are black and minority ethnic (BME), a proportion in line with the UK population overall. In 2014, Cherwell, the university’s student newspaper, conducted a study which found that the success rate for BME applicants was 17.1%, significantly lower than the 25.4% success rate for white applicants. Read moreThe study also found that 59.3% of BME students have felt uncomfortable or unwelcome at Oxford because of their race or ethnicity Another recent article in the paper also cites a 2011 University and College Union survey which revealed that Oxford has one of the UK’s lowest proportions of professors of BME backgrounds Only 3.9% of Oxford’s professors are from a BME background 9.1% at Kings College London and 8.1% at Oxford Brookes “Taking down the Rhodes statue would not immediately fix or reverse all of this but it would signify a real commitment from Oriel and the university to seriously engage with this problem,” said Dalia Gebrial “It would signify an acknowledgment that brown and black lives matter – and that they matter to the extent that we are willing to take honest genuine steps to address historical violence against them.” Oriel College, whose provost is the former civil servant Moira Wallace, has also indicated that the issue goes far beyond a debate about public art. Its statement, release last week acknowledged that “Rhodes was also a 19th-century colonialist whose values and world view stand in absolute contrast to the ethos of the scholarship programme today and to the values of a modern university.” The college promised “further outreach initiatives focused on potential BME applicants more support and training on equality and diversity issues affecting students and staff within the College” The consultation on the future of the Rhodes statue is due to begin in February 2016 with the campaigners looking forward to a continued debate “Every movement looking to better the lives of minorities has faced a backlash,” Gebrial said the birthing pains of progression can be hard to bear but in the end it is all worth it for the creation of a more empathetic and historically informed society.” The University of Oxford declined to comment Caritas believes that it is a scandal that nearly a billion people are hungry today in a world that has the resources to feed everyone We look to the parable of the feeding of the multitude where there is abundance of food which it is our duty to share The 164 national organisations that make up Caritas Internationalis are joining together in their first ever global campaign to call for an end to hunger by 2025 We believe the best way to achieve this is for governments to guarantee food for all in their national laws by implementing the right to food legal and clearly defined right which gives rise to obligations of governments to reduce both chronic undernourishment and malnutrition The right to food protects the right of all human beings to live in dignity but about ensuring that all people have the capacity to feed themselves in dignity Caritas Internationalis will launch the campaign on 10 December 2013 (World Human Rights day) A global week of action in October 2014 uniting Caritas member organisations and parishes around with different events and actions around the world urging national governments to adopt a right to food Caritas Internationalis will host its quadrennial ‘General Assembly’ in Rome and meeting will have a special focus on eliminating hunger Immediately after this Caritas will participate in the Milan Expo 2015: Feeding the planet contact your country’s Caritas organisation ears and hearts to understand the impact of hunger on the world Look at your own attitude to food and waste – what could change Join the “wave of prayer” that Caritas is planning for the campaign’s launch National Caritas organisations will be organising campaign actions at a local level Get in touch with them and take part in their work We hope that the multiplication of all this actions around the world will create a tidal wave of support for the right to food GET INVOLVED Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information and Diana Mercer at the 2014 World Science Festival Gala on April 7 the 42-year-old daughter of New York hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer will serve as one of 16 members of the team’s executive committee It’s a sign of how the Mercers’ longstanding effort to influence the direction of the Republican Party is paying off St Mary’s Terrace in Twyford has regained its lost punctuation after a row that even drew in local author Jane Austen It began with a grumble from a retired teacher passionate about punctuation. He was dismayed to spot that an apostrophe had vanished from the road sign of a tree-lined lane in the Hampshire village of Twyford The complaint led to intricate discussions at the local city council, during which the sometimes erratic punctuation of Jane Austen, the area’s most famous writer the status quo ante was restored and an apostrophe has been added back in to the sign for St Mary’s Terrace to the delight not only of villagers but to a growing number of enthusiasts battling against the loss of the punctuation mark across the UK The controversy in Twyford began last year when a new road sign for St Mary’s Terrace appeared minus the apostrophe The former teacher Oliver Gray expressed his discontent Consternation grew and the Lib Dem councillor Tony Bronk, who represents the village, formally put the question to Winchester city council – under procedure rule 15 (3), to be precise The council clearly liked exact punctuation in its rules “Residents of St Mary’s Terrace in Twyford were surprised and disappointed to find that when their street name plate was replaced last year it was missing an apostrophe,” Bronk wrote the answer given was that the council’s policy required that all new street name signs must omit any apostrophe formerly shown on such signage.” replied that while the administration’s priorities lay elsewhere it was an issue that could lead to high emotions He set out the position thus: “Clear and unambiguous street and place names are vital for postal and other delivery services and also for the emergency services and punctuation can make that more difficult particularly with modern computer systems.” Tod said the national guidance was that new street names should not have punctuation but he said this did not mean scrapping all punctuation in existing street names and places He admitted the local authority had not always used punctuation “very consistently” whose resting place is in the city’s cathedral He also pointed out that there was no apostrophe in the name of Kings Worthy But the Hampshire town of Bishop’s Waltham did have one he agreed that the St Mary’s Terrace sign was “confusing” and “not in line with residents’ wishes” – and the apostrophe should be restored The Apostrophe Protection Society (mission: “to preserve the correct use of this important item of punctuation”; membership: 2,000 and growing) welcomed the decision “Apostrophes in road or town names generally have real significance They were put in because there was some association with local history I’m very much of the view we should be celebrating our social history The offending sign Photograph: Solent News & Photo Agency“Getting rid of apostrophes from street names is a form of cultural vandalism You wouldn’t dream of spelling a street name wrongly but taking an apostrophe out is tantamount to just that.” He said there were examples of councils bowing to pressure to restore apostrophes. Cambridge city council did this after campaigners replaced vanished apostrophes with marker pens He said the idea that abolishing apostrophes helped the emergency services was “nonsense” “Having worked in IT for many years it is absolutely standard to write algorithms that ignore punctuation and even spelling variations I find it very difficult to believe the emergency services require precise spelling.” the old sign was finally recovered and restored the resident who had first raised concerns was given the honour of touching up the apostrophe on the sign very interested in grammar and apostrophes in particular,” he said Gray admitted that some people were now complaining that there shouldn’t be a full stop after the “St” in “St “I’m not getting involved in that - it’s too controversial.” The Apostrophe Protection Society (APS) has a page on its website dedicated to misplaced, omitted or extraneous apostrophes Fast food restaurants tend to be frequent offenders Such as with the sign: “We are now recruiting for various roles within our Burger King’s.” The APS comments: “The plural of Burger King is Burger Kings Drink’s.” APS says: “I’d get indigestion from these!” Another sign says: “Danger keep clear of propeller’s.” The APS responds: “Keep clear of loose apostrophes.” A car repair place has the sign: “Were Open.” “Are they open or not?” ponders APS A poster for the film Booksmart reads: “Getting straight A’s Giving zero F’s.” But the APS says: “Plurals of single capital letters don’t need an apostrophe.” Some businesses have deliberately lost their apostrophes. It caused a stir when Waterstones did so It explained: “Waterstones without an apostrophe is in a digital world of URLs and email addresses The United Nations opened its first ever multinational convention on lethal autonomous weapons today I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice 'Killer robots' would “jeopardise basic human rights” and should be preemptively banned "before it is too late" Human Rights Watch has warned as the United Nations held its first ever multinational convention on lethal autonomous weapons systems today The convention in Geneva will be held over three days under the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons which aims to ban or restrict weapons that cause unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering to both civilians and those in combat The informal meetings are attended by experts in the field and will first look at defining what an autonomous weapon is and whether it fits into the definition governed under the convention So-called ‘killer robots’ are autonomous machines able to identify and kill targets without human input Fully autonomous weapons have not yet been developed but technological advances are bringing them closer to fruition There have been growing ethical concerns over the use of robots that could effectively have "the power of life and death over humans" HRW has released a 26-page report to coincide with the debate where it argued killer robots would threaten fundamental rights human judgment is critically important to any decision to use a lethal weapon,” said Steve Goose arms division director at Human Rights Watch “Governments need to say no to fully autonomous weapons for any purpose and to pre-emptively ban them now the acting head of the UN's European headquarters in Geneva urged the delegates to adopt new laws in advance to ensure human control because "all too often international law only responds to atrocities and suffering once it has happened" His call was backed by German Ambassador Michael Biontino who told the meeting: "It is indispensable to maintain control of the decision to kill another person." But US diplomat and legal adviser Stephen Townley cautioned the meeting against trying to pre-judge the uses of emerging technologies Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies warns Human Rights Watch","description":"The United Nations opened its first ever multinational convention on lethal autonomous weapons today If you buy something from an Eater link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy Those methods are entirely too cumbersome and tedious when ordering is now as simple as tweeting an emoji Patrick Doyle, the CEO of Domino's notes, "It's the epitome of convenience... We've got this down to a five-second exchange." Unfortunately, the ordering system — which launches May 20 — will only be available to emoji loving residents of the United States. The move seems like something Taco Bell would have done ages ago if a taco emoji actually existed The freshest news from the food world every day The exposé and heavy-handed response have proved surprisingly controversial in China where prostitution is technically illegal but practically ubiquitous Internet users and human rights groups have criticised authorities for shaming and intimidating female sex workers rather than offering them help The UN estimates that four to six million women work in the country's sex industry nationwide many of them in brothels thinly disguised as hair salons which the state broadcaster CCTV aired on Sunday night undercover reporters visited a range of upscale hotels and karaoke bars in the city of Dongguan According to state media the city responded to the broadcast by dispatching 6,525 police officers in a raid They arrested 67 people and closed 12 entertainment venues Pictures posted online showed lines of men and women kneeling on the floor in the middle of a hotel lobby According to the state-run China Daily newspaper, Guangdong authorities will soon launch a three-month, province-wide crackdown on prostitution "Local police officers who are found protecting the sex industry or who organise sexual services will be severely punished," said Li Chunsheng Eight officers have already been suspended A spokesman at the Dongguan public security bureau refused to confirm the report or comment on the current condition of the detained sex workers "All of the information that we're willing to release is already available online," he said "We don't have any more information at this time." The crackdown has elicited a surprising degree of sympathy online – on Monday don't cry" were hot topics on Sina Weibo Many users debated whether China should legalise prostitution Some speculated that the report and crackdown were the product of an internal power struggle "I asked a Dongguan friend what he thought about all of this and he said: there's just too much demand from clients – it's not like guns or drugs which are scarce resources," wrote one user [prostitution] will be impossible to eradicate The crackdown is nothing but a show." The post has been deleted by censors "This is the first time in memory that you have a large public debate [about prostitution] in which a non-moralistic or punitive point of view dominates," said Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong Kong-based researcher at Human Rights Watch anti-pornography sweeps are causing more harm than good," he added "They're ineffective in terms of reining in sex work in China (meaning reducing prostitution) but they nonetheless cause a lot of abuses" China treats prostitution as an administrative violation rather than a criminal offence and sex workers can face fines of up to £500 or 15 days' detention Because the fines go directly into public security coffers police often force detained sex workers into confessing Repeated crackdowns usually force sex workers to operate more clandestinely The National Press Museum is a bit out on a limb just upriver of the Ponte do Freixo road bridge but worth a detour for the comprehensiveness of its displays They focus on printing and related processes starting with a tribute to Porto’s own Rodrigo Álvares who in 1497 printed Portugal's first two books There is also a cartoon gallery; the museum runs an annual Cartoon Festival with competitors from around the world taking part You could walk down to the museum from Campanhã rail station but it’s not a particularly pleasant stroll; better to catch the ZR minibus from the Ribeira district ELIGE TU PAÍS / ESCOLHA O SEU PAÍS / CHOOSE YOUR COUNTRY / WYBIERZ SWÓJ KRAJ / 选择您的国家 The Government of Portugal has authorized the opening of a public tender for the concession part of the National Railway Plan and the National Investment Program 2030 aims to promote decarbonization and improve the capacity of national railway channels The concession contract has a duration of 30 years 12-A/2024 of January 11th authorised the expenditure on the first section of the high-speed railway line between the cities of Oporto and Lisbon As a result, Contract Notice no. 504/2024 was published in the Official Gazette on January 15th, determining the opening of the International Public Tender for the Concession of the first section of the High-Speed Railway Line (LAV), referring to the 71km between Oporto (Campanhã) and Oiã. The respective tender documents have been published on the electronic public procurement platform anoGov an essential project for the implementation of the National Railway Plan and the 2030 National Investment Programme approved by Council of Ministers Resolution 192/2023 of 26 December will be carried out through public-private partnerships (PPP) according to the following phases: the LAV project aims to promote the decarbonisation of the transport sector the performance and capacity of the national railways and to increase territorial cohesion What is the scope of the awarding procedure The scope of the awarding procedure (Procedure) is the award of the Concession Contract regarding the conception maintenance and provision (excluding operation) by the Concessionaire of the Railway Infrastructures of the 1st Section: Oporto (Campanhã)-Oiã (Concession Contract) What is the duration of the Concession Contract The duration of the Concession Contract is 30 years The Procedure takes the form of an International Public Tender in accordance with the provisions of the Portuguese Public Contracts Code The values to be included by the bidders in their proposals must not result in a net present value To this value a maximum amount of EUR 480,000,000.00 corresponding to public funds to be made available by the Grantor during the Development Period of the Concession Contract will be added following the application to the 2023 Call of the Connecting Europe Facility for Transport 2 Programme The Contracting Authority is Infraestruturas de Portugal The award will be made according to the criterion of the most economically advantageous tender in accordance with the tender evaluation model in Annex 11 to the Tender Regulation considering the factors and sub-factors and their respective weighting coefficients set out briefly below: The overall score of each tender (Vp) which will enable them to be ranked according to the award criterion will result from the sum of the partial scores obtained in each factor multiplied by the values of the respective weighting coefficients according to the following mathematical equation: 𝑉𝑝 = 0,7 × 𝑉𝑎 + 0,3 × 𝑉𝑏 What is the deadline for tender submissions Tenders may be submitted via the electronic platform up to 17:00 on the 153rd day following the date on which the contract notice was sent for publication The deadline for submitting tenders will therefore be 17:00 on June 13th Requests for clarification and lists of errors and omissions on the tender documents must be submitted in writing and directly on the electronic platform by the end of the first third of the deadline set for the submission of tenders.        Tenderers are obliged to keep their tenders for a period of 360 days from the end of the deadline for submitting them Lino Torgal Contact Lisbon Paulo Mendonça Duarte Contact Find more professionals Contact [email protected] Baby-faced and swamped by her wedding dress and veil she is easily young enough to be her companion's grand-daughter But despite the startling fact that this 'bride' is just a child some passers-by are astonishingly quick to offer congratulations the marriage is a sham to highlight the plight of Lebanese girls who can be married off to much older men from the age of nine The practice is on the increase in the country especially in refugee camps where Syrian refugee girls are forced to marry young The groom replies 'yes' and the onlooker then nods approval and congratulates him One woman is so shocked that she demands to know where the girl's parents are I was jogging but my feet froze when I saw her,' she shouts Another bystander then tells her the 'wedding' is legal as the groom had the parents' permission - adding: 'The law allows it.'  Another man asks the wedding photographer is he is happy taking photos of the scene Another shocked man told him: 'Her parents are criminals.'  The fake wedding was set up by KAFA charity to highlight Lebanon's child marriage shame The age of consent in the country is set by religious tribunals Girls as young as 14 can marry without parental consent although tribunals have granted special permission for nine-year-olds to marry Around one in every 100 children in Lebanon are married off before they are 15, according to UNICEF and the shocking phenomenon is said to be on the rise It found a spike in early marriages in refugee camps across the Arab region where Syrian families marry their daughters off to older men because they believe they are giving them a better Iran: The Islamic Republic civil code set the legal age of marriage at 13 for girls and 15 boys The same Act allows children to marry even younger with their parents' consent or permission from a court judge Iraq: Legal age to marry is 18 for girls and boys but they can get married as young as 15 with a judge's permission Syria: The legal age is set to 17 for girls and 18 for boys but religious leaders have been known to allow girls to marry at 13 Yemen: The Arab country is one of the few left in the region that does not have a minimum age for marriage with parental consent Afghanistan: Girls can marry at 16 without her parents' permission and boys at 18 The country's Civil Code says 'marriage of a minor girl whose age is less then 15 shall never be permissible' Libya: The legal age is 20 for men and women but courts have been known to grant earlier marriages Jordan: Girls and boys must wait until they are 18 to get married without permission But sharia courts can grant special permission for girls as young as 15 to marry girls can get married at 15 and boys at 16 Source: UNICEF / Girls Not Brides  They are in fact putting them at a much higher risk of complications during pregnancy, domestic abuse and rape, and destroying any chance of them getting an education, said UNICEF spokesman Robert Jenkins. Syrian born Jasmin, 16, was made to marry a 24-year-old man in a Jordanian refugee camp.  Five months pregnant with his baby, she told UNICEF: 'When I was younger I was dreaming about being a fashion designer, but now I can't achieve that because of my situation.'  Another refugee named Maha, 13, said: 'My father forced me to get married because he heard about a rape case [in the refugee camp] nearby. 'He was scared the same would happen to my sister and me. He forced my sister to get married first, and then he made me get married right after that.  'It was all very forceful and I had no choice. I didn't want to get married. I would've liked to finish my studies, but I couldn't do that.  Young Syrian refugee girls are also married off because it is 'one less mouth to feed' for their poverty stricken families, said Jihane Latrous, a child protection specialist at UNICEF.  Lebanon is trying to tackle the problem with laws to give civil authorities power in an area that has long been controlled by religious clerics. Fadi Karam, secretary general of the National Commission for Lebanese Women, a body for human rights, said: 'For the best protection of children, there must be a complementarity between religious and civil authorities.' A new law was drafted last year which required a civil judge, as well as religious tribunals, to approve the union.  Child marriage, which affects one in three girls in the developing world, has a devastating affect on their lives and their communities, said Lakshmi Sundaram, Executive Director at Girls Not Brides. She told MailOnline: 'Pregnancy and childbirth are incredibly dangerous for child brides, often leading to death or significant injuries.  'Their children are at risk too. Babies with mothers under 20 are far less likely to survive their first birthday.  'Once married, a girl’s education is usually cut short, which means that she is much less likely to be able to access opportunities to pull herself and her family out of poverty. 'Unless we act now to end this child marriage, more than 1 billion girls will be married as children by 2050. Major terror attack 'was just HOURS away' before it was foiled by the special forces and police:... Victim of acid attack 'plotted by his ex-partner who teamed up with a gang' dies in hospital six... We are trapped in unsellable newbuild homes after a £52m dual carriageway was built on our... Pub is forced to pay family £75,000 after wrongly accusing them of 'dine and dash' over £150... 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