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Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
March 18, 2020 · By Climate NASA for climate.nasa.gov
Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal. – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The average temperatures for March 2020 are higher than years past, it will affect our live more than the CoViD-19 ever will. -PREDA Foundation The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely […]
Read More...Girl rescued in Philippines after Sydney man arrested for child abuse
March 18, 2020 · By Luke Henriques-Gomes for www.theguardian.com
Police have rescued a 12-year-old girl whose abuse was allegedly livestreamed by a Sydney man on social media following a joint investigation between Australian and Philippine authorities. The girl was freed on Friday by Philippine national police and Australian federal police officers at a property in the city of Rizal, about a two-hour drive from […]
Read More...How the body responds to Coronavirus infection
March 18, 2020 ·
How the body responds to Coronavirus infection According to the CDC, the virus can spread person-to-person within 6 feet through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It’s also possible for the virus to remain on a surface or object, be transferred by touch and enter the body through the mouth, nose […]
Read More...Minorities fear for Malaysia’s future
March 17, 2020 · By Michael Sainsbury, Malaysia for www.ucanews.com
The emergence of the hardline Islamist party PAS as part of conservative Muslim Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s new coalition government is most unpopular with Malaysia’s minorities. Catholics account for 3.68 percent or about one million people in a nation where 60 percent of people are Muslim. Catholicism is only pipped by Hinduism (6.3 percent) in terms […]
Read More...One party rule: disaster for Cambodia’s poor and economy
March 17, 2020 · By Luke Hunt, Cambodia for www.ucanews.com
When the Europeans decided to slice US$1 billion worth of trade preferences off Cambodian exports in response to a sharp deterioration in human rights and democratic values, Prime Minister Hun Sen was as defiant as he was cavalier. Never shy on the international stage and always one to take advantage of the tools at hand, […]
Read More...Pakistan Zainab murder: New law aims to catch child abusers
March 17, 2020 · By M Ilyas Khan for www.bbc.com
Pakistan’s parliament has passed a new bill against child abuse, two years after the murder of a seven-year-old sparked deadly riots and public debate. The Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Bill is named after Zainab Ansari, whose raped body was found in 2018. The legislation provides for a dedicated agency to respond more quickly when […]
Read More...4 fired, 2 arrested for failing to report child abuse at behavioral school, deputies say
March 11, 2020 ·
VIERA, Fla. – Four Devereux employees were fired immediately when a case of child abuse was reported not by the staffers, by the child himself, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said the boy at the Viera behavioral campus told his counselor that 25-year-old Marcus DeFreitas came into his room and beat him up […]
Read More...Former Trinity College Colac teacher Kevin Myers jailed for child sexual abuse, current principal praises victims’ bravery
March 11, 2020 · By Nicole Mills and Steven Schubert for www.abc.net.au
The principal of a Catholic school in country Victoria has praised the “unbelievably courageous” child sexual abuse survivors who brought a former teacher to justice for his crimes. Trinity College Colac principal Paul Clohesy attended the court hearings of former teacher Kevin Wilmore Myers, who pleaded guilty to 12 charges involving nine victims spanning from […]
Read More...UN issues scathing indictment of Iran’s human rights violations
March 11, 2020 · By Benjamin Weinthal for www.msn.com
The newly released U.N. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran savaged Tehran’s failure to adhere to basic human rights norms. Javaid Rehman, the U.N. Rapporteur who released his report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, said: “Individuals who have called for […]
Read More...CWR: One woman or child abused every 10 minutes
March 11, 2020 · By Chito Chavez for news.mb.com.ph
A few days before the International Working Women’s Day, the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR) sounded the alarm as records showed that at least one woman or child is abused every 10 minutes in the country. The CWR reported, through its Ulat Lila 2020, the bi-annual report on the situation of Filipino women, that violence […]
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