Month: September 2021

[ad_1] The Catholic Church in Kerala has decided to be “guarded” in its official communications and sermons in future, to ensure their words do not cause pain to other communities or create uneasiness in society, a top church official said on Thursday. The significant decision, seeking to put an end to the row over theRead More

[ad_1] The two-day event brings together teachers, youth, civil society organizations, human rights experts, tech and social media companies, and government representatives. Mobilizing against hatred “Across the globe, public discourse is being coarsened, democratic values threatened, and social cohesion undermined,” the UN chief said, while social media is contributing to hate speech being disseminated moreRead More

[ad_1] On 1 March, the Iraqi Parliament passed the Yazidi [Women] Survivors Law (YSL) to deliver long-awaited support not only for Yazidi women, but other ethno-religious survivors targeted by the ISIL extremist group, when it occupied large swathes of Iraq from 2014-2017.  “This law represents one concrete step taken by the Government of Iraq in the implementation of the Joint Communiqué on the PreventionRead More

[ad_1] Chris Gayle has decided to opt out of IPL 2021 due to bubble fatigue.© Twitter Star player Chris Gayle has decided to leave the IPL’s bio-secure environment due to “bubble fatigue”, his team Punjab Kings said on Thursday. Gayle had played two games for the team since IPL’s resumption and now wants to refreshRead More

[ad_1] In a joint appeal by UN migration agency IOM, the refugee agency UNHCR, Children’s Fund UNICEF, and human rights office OHCHR, they highlighted that many Haitians in the past decade have faced a series of natural catastrophes, acute food insecurity and gang violence. UN agencies call on States to refrain from expelling Haitians withoutRead More

[ad_1] But Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Senate commerce, science, and transportation subcommittee on consumer protection, product safety, and data security, highlighted how Facebook had, in August, denied it was aware of any research that showed a negative correlation. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] US District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis has halted the enforcement of a South Carolina budget proviso forbidding school districts from imposing pandemic-related mask requirements. Gov. Henry McMaster is appealing the decision, in which Lewis held that the proviso hindered educational opportunities for students with disabilities. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] A group of advocates for civics education, organized as Californians for Civic Learning, is recommending civics lessons be expanded beyond a single high-school semester to every grade to help students learn to think. Ten of the organization’s members — including Michelle Herczog, past president of the National Council for the Social Studies — haveRead More

[ad_1] Easy to see how Bear 128 got into this year’s Fat Bear Week 2021 competition. A. Willingham/National Park Service hide caption toggle caption A. Willingham/National Park Service Easy to see how Bear 128 got into this year’s Fat Bear Week 2021 competition. A. Willingham/National Park Service If you’re looking for some beary good news,Read More

[ad_1] Here’s what you need to know: ImageEmployees at a biomedical center in São Paulo, Brazil, where a Chinese vaccine is one of several produced.Credit…Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images The Pan American Health Organization has struck a deal with the Chinese manufacturer Sinovac to buy millions of Covid-19 vaccines for countries in Latin America and the CaribbeanRead More

[ad_1] “Rhythm is at the center of humanity. One who knows rhythm knows the world”, said American percussionist Mickey Hart, best known as one of the two drummers of the Grateful Dead.  He is at the center of the special performance and video feature, along with legendary percussionists Sikiru Adepoju, Zakir Hussain, Giovanni Hidalgo, and a posthumous appearance by the West African drummer Babatunde Olatunji.   Born fromRead More

[ad_1] The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday released a preliminary set of health protocols for the upcoming Winter Games in Beijing that suggested that the next Olympics, set to start on Feb. 4, could be the most extraordinarily restricted large-scale sporting event since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Beijing Olympic and Paralympic GamesRead More

[ad_1] Facebook on Wednesday published two internal research reports about its photo-sharing app, Instagram, and downplayed their conclusions, as the company prepared for two congressional hearings in the next week that are focused on its products’ effects on children’s mental health. The reports — “Teen Mental Health Deep Dive,” published internally in October 2019, andRead More