Agency chief Catherine Russell, who has completed a visit to the country, called for urgent renewal of the truce between the Government and Houthi rebels. The landmark agreement was initially announced in April and led to a significant reduction in the intensity of the conflict. However, a further 62 children have been killed or injured in the period since it ended in early October and 30 November, UNICEF said. Struggling to survive Furthermore, at least 74 children were among the 164 people killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance between July and September alone. Ms. Russell visited a hospital in…
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Speaking on the U.S. Senate floor Thursday before votes on a trio of bills affecting the nation’s freight rail employees, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he had one “simple question” to ask: “Are any Republicans prepared to stand with rail workers who have zero paid sick days or are they instead going to back the outrageous greed of the rail industry?”Sanders (I-Vt.) got his answer a short time later when 42 Republicans—and serial Democratic obstructionist Joe Manchin of West Virginia—voted down Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s (D-N.Y.) proposal to include seven paid sick days in the tentative contract being foisted upon rail workers…
The first time I got punched in the face in a training session I cried afterwards in my car. It wasn’t so much that it hurt: it was the shock. I froze, but I was encouraged to punch back. Boxing brought up buried emotion deep inside of me. As much as it didn’t seem very tough to shed tears, the process felt part of my healing journey. I started boxing in my mid-thirties. I was angry and I knew it was directly related to my childhood sexual abuse and trauma. Secretly I felt drawn to boxing, its visceral nature. The…
Montréal-based experimental design studio A-OKAY introduces its latest design in the form of the Shop Light. It is a portable lamp that is slightly similar to the look of frill work lights that are found in those environments. It is framed by aluminum rods that create the cage and it is flat-packed for efficiency. Additionally, this can also function as a carrying handle as the cage has linear designs to cast shadows on the surrounding settings when the lamp is illuminated. The options of the Shop Light include “green, terra-cotta, charcoal, anodized aluminum, and anodized black.” `The minimal design allows…
Climate campaigners attending the first negotiations for a global plastics treaty in Punta Del Este, Uruguay this week are reporting that discussions have had a strong emphasis on protecting the rights of communities that are severely impacted by plastic pollution, but they warned that policymakers must avoid producing a “Paris agreement for plastics.”The international movement Break Free From Plastic said Wednesday night that several of the more than 150 assembled countries have expressed support for an agreement which would allow individual governments to “establish their own standards rather than global control measures.””Plastic production remains unchecked, and companies, in league with…
Chris Flynn’s Here Be Leviathans is a collection of short stories that seems quirky and light-hearted, propelled by its creative use of perspective. Each story is established from a surprising vantage point and so the world as Flynn imagines it becomes topsy-turvy – anything at all might be alive and sentient. Animals, chairs, boats, you name it. Review: Here Be Leviathans – Chris Flynn (UQP) and The Tower – Carol Lefevre (Spinifex) A bear eats a teenager, and thus inherits the boy’s memories. An airplane seat describes its last day at work. A hotel room observes its favourite couple, who…
New Zealand took delivery of the first of four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft on Wednesday. The milestone delivery comes four years after the New Zealand Government entered into an agreement with the U.S. Navy for the P-8A. New Zealand’s three remaining P-8 aircraft are all in advanced stages of production and will be delivered in 2023. The aircraft will replace New Zealand’s current fleet of six P-3K2 Orions and will be based at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Ohakea. “As a maritime nation, delivery of the P-8A will ensure New Zealand maintains a patrol and response capability…
As the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed legislation brokered by President Joe Biden denying freight rail employees any compensated sick leave, labor advocates implored the president—who called himself the “most pro-labor” president ever—to sign an executive order guaranteeing at least seven days of paid days off for illness to railroad and other workers.The upper chamber voted 52-43 Thursday—eight votes short of the 60 needed for passage—for a House-approved proposal by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) to give rail workers seven paid sick days as part of a tentative contract being forced upon rail workers by Congress and the Biden administration under…
Growing numbers of Australians are reported to be struggling to put enough healthy food on the table every day as the cost of living soars. But Australia doesn’t collect enough data on food insecurity. The lack of data makes it difficult for policymakers to grasp the extent of the problem, let alone take effective action to solve it. Food insecurity can range from being anxious about not having enough food in the house, to eating cheaper, less healthy foods due to a lack of money, to regularly skipping meals and going hungry. Estimates from before 2020 suggested between 4% and…
Long before the country’s first-ever international debt default in May 2022 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which added to the country’s problems, tea estate labourer Nagamma had already cut back on meals, as global trade froze during the coronavirus pandemic. Blood, sweat and leeches Her precarious situation in Sri Lanka’s central highlands hasn’t changed, but it’s not for want of trying. “We work even when it rains and while the leeches suck our blood,” she says, peering out from her worker’s bungalow at the 100-acre plantation where she started work aged 14. “We can’t afford to buy chicken, fish or…