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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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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,…
US Department of Labor Announces More than $69M Funding Available to Help Youth, Young Adults with Disabilities Connect with Good Jobs
On August 10, 2023 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of more than $69 million in funding over a five-year budget period to support the development of innovative strategies that will help youth and young adults with disabilities transition to the workforce successfully. Administered by the department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy,…
Department of Labor to Offer Online Seminars for Employers, Workers in September on Recent Updates in Regulations for Federal Contractors
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that it will offer online compliance seminars in September for contracting agencies, contractors, unions, workers and other stakeholders to provide information on recent updates to regulations governing employment practices for federally funded contracts. On Aug. 8, 2023, the department’s Wage and Hour Division provided for public review the…
Inditex against ageism: Ángela Molina, the new face of Zara at 67
By Beatrice Garcia On August 13, 2023 The award-winning Spanish actress is the star of the advertising campaign for Zara’s new collection. With this move, the fashion giant goes one step further in the fight against age-based discrimination Ángela Molina, 67, is the face of Zara’s new campaign. The Madrid-born actress — who won an…