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Tanzania: Authorities brutally violated Maasai amid forced evictions from ancestral lands
On June 6, 2023 The Tanzanian authorities have repeatedly resorted to ill-treatment, excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests and detentions, and forced evictions against members of the Maasai Indigenous community, Amnesty International said in a new report released today. The report, We have lost everything: Forced evictions of the Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania, details how the Tanzanian authorities…
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Airstrike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region kills at least 26 people
On August 14, 2023 Residents say attack on town square in Finote Selam targeted ethnic Fano militia but civilians were also hit An airstrike on a busy town square in Ethiopia’s Amhara region has killed at least 26 people, in the latest instance of violence in Ethiopia’s second-biggest state, where militia have been fighting the army.…
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Kidnappers in Haiti release US nurse and her young daughter nearly 2 weeks after their abduction
BY MICKENSON DUVERGÉ AND DÁNICA COTO On August 10, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Kidnappers in Haiti released a U.S. nurse and her daughter Wednesday, nearly two weeks after they were snatched at gunpoint from the campus of a Christian-run school near Port-au-Prince, underscoring the severe security risks for visitors to a capital city largely controlled by…
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Hong Kong targets exiles’ loved ones as crackdown turns to old CCP playbook
By Erin Hale On August 4, 2023 Hong Kong authorities are targeting the relatives of activists overseas in latest sign of alignment with mainland China. Taipei, Taiwan – After silencing Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, authorities in the territory have found a new target: the family members of dissidents who fled overseas. As pro-democracy Hong Kongers continue…
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Sudan conflict displaces nearly four million: UN migration agency
On August 2, 2023 Latest data from IOM’s displacement matrix indicates that the clash between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries has uprooted a staggering number of people, with more than 926,000 seeking refuge abroad and a total of 3.02 million internally displaced. According to IOM’s latest humanitarian situation update, individuals have been forced to leave all of…
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Lebanon: At least 12,000 children displaced in Ein El-Hilweh Camp as violence enters its fifth day
On August 3, 2023 BEIRUT, 03 August 2023 – About 20,000 people including an estimated 12,000 children have been forced from their homes during five days of violence in Lebanon’s largest refugee camp, with many children showing signs of distress and anxiety, Save the Children said. Some families in the Ein el-Hilweh camp for Palestinian refugees…
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‘We’re just trying to feed kids:’ Lunch prices in public schools spike amid budget cuts
By Kayla Jimenez On August 9, 2023 On a plane in July, Nicole Melia traveled from Philadelphia to Denver to meet with other school nutrition directors from across the nation about challenges they expect when the new school year begins. There was one conversation she expected to be the focus of the convening: Many schools are…
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Florida Schools Try to Adapt to New Rules on Gender, Bathrooms and Pronouns
By Dana Goldstein On August 10, 2023 As schools start, it’s been more paperwork, a culling of reading lists, as well as new regulations about bathrooms. As a new school year begins in Florida this week, parents are filling out a flurry of new forms — specifying a student’s nickname or new name; allowing a…
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Arkansas Warns School Districts Not to Offer A.P. African American Studies
By Dana Goldstein On August 14, 2023 What’s New In the latest conflict between the College Board and conservative policymakers, the Arkansas Department of Education warned schools on Monday — the first day of classes in many districts — not to offer Advanced Placement African American Studies. Like Florida, which refused to approve the class,…
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