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‘This is Major Trauma’: New Accounts of Abuse at Federal Prison Prompt Calls for Investigations
By Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro On July 6, 2023 More than 120 prisoners held at a special unit in Thomson Penitentiary reported mistreatment, lawyers’ committee report says. Months after officials closed a violent federal prison unit in Illinois, a new report reveals more accounts of a pervasive culture of abuse inside and calls for…
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Seeking the Path to Justice
By Yvonne Abraham Globe Columnist,Updated July 12, 2023, 6:16 p.m. Whose job is it to make sure everyone hurt by rogue police officers gets justice? Three years after an explosive report from the Department of Justice detailed shocking patterns of brutality and deception in the Springfield Police Department, a lawsuit seeks an answer to that question. One one…
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Measuring Health Equity: A State Measure Set to Assess and Improve Equity
Jun-15-2023 Kanneganti D , Mar J , and Bailit M DOWNLOAD REPORT DOWNLOAD SUMMARY The State Health Equity Measure Set provides a standard set of health equity measures that states can use to assess their performance against other states, and inform interventions that strive to improve equity in healthcare access and outcomes within their state. The Issue State and federal agencies have begun…
Read MoreIslamic extremists kill 8 farmers and abduct 10 in latest attack in northeastern Nigeria
By Haruna Umar On June 24, 2023 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists killed eight farmers and abducted 10 in an attack in northeastern Nigeria, officials said Friday — the latest in a volatile region that is a key part of the country’s breadbasket and where militants have threatened food supplies. The farmers were ambushed…
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Taliban leader claims women are provided with a ‘comfortable and prosperous life’ in Afghanistan
By Rahim Faiez On June 25, 2023 ISLAMABAD (AP) — The supreme leader of the Taliban released a message Sunday claiming that his government has taken the necessary steps for the betterment of women’s lives in Afghanistan, where women are banned from public life and work and girls’ education is severely curtailed. The statement from…
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Haitians suffer in shelters as gang violence displaces thousands
On June 23, 2023 Haitians seek safety in makeshift shelters, parks and abandoned buildings, with little aid or prospect of going home. A gang rampaged through the Cite Soleil neighbourhood, killing and raping and setting fire to hundreds of wood-and-tin homes. Forced out of the area, one family of four lived on the streets of Port-au-Prince…
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Ukraine updates: IAEA in Russia to ease Zaporizhzhia fears
On June 23, 2023 The UN atomic agency’s head, Rafael Grossi, said the meeting was “timely.” Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy said Moscow has hidden the bodies of those killed in the Kakhovka dam breach. DW has the latest. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi met with the director of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom on Friday to discuss the…
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Rohingya in Bangladesh protest to be sent home after UN aid cut
On June 9, 2023 Tens of thousands of refugees demonstrate in Bangladesh camps to push for repatriation to Myanmar after food ration is slashed. Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are demanding to be repatriated to Myanmar so that they can leave the squalid camps they have lived in since fleeing a brutal…
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Palestinian toddler shot by Israeli troops in West Bank dies of wounds
On June 5, 2023 NEBI SALEH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian toddler who was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank last week died of his wounds on Monday, Israeli hospital officials said. Mohammed al-Tamimi was shot in the head last Thursday near his village of Nebi Saleh while riding in a…
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