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Five-Fold Increase in Children Uprooted by Violence in West Africa’s Central Sahel
By Kunle Olawoyin and Aisha Majid On March 21, 2024 BAMAKO/ NIAMEY/ OUAGADOUGOU, 21 March 2024 — Escalating violence has led to a five-fold surge in the number of children forced from their homes over the past five years in three west African countries, according to new Save the Children analysis. The child rights agency analysed…
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France to charter evacuation flights for citizens stranded in Haiti
France will provide special flights for its “most vulnerable” citizens to leave Haiti, the French foreign ministry said Sunday, after air links with Port-au-Prince were cut during political chaos. By New Wires On March 24, 2024 “France’s embassy in Port-au-Prince remains open and is still working despite the degraded conditions,” the ministry told AFP in…
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Vigilantes defending Haiti neighbourhood ‘tooth and nail’ against gang attacks
In Haiti’s capital, people have become used to violence and step around the dead. Nobody knows the reason for many murders. Locals fighting back are willing to “give their heart and soul for the freedom of the neighbourhood, and the freedom of this country”, says one man. On Stuart Ramsey March 25, 2024 Video: People…
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Rat Fur, Arsenic and Copper: The Dangerous Ingredients Lacing US Prison Water
Incarcerated people often must drink unhealthy water, a particularly cruel – but not unusual – form of punishment By Lela Nargi MARCH 19 2024 Russell Rowe spent almost two and a half years in Washington DC’s central detention facility, where rusty water flowed from taps in sinks that were connected to toilets. He remembers dawdling…
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Judge Orders Special Master for California Prison Known for Rampant Sexual Abuse
Several employees at the federal correctional institution in Dublin have pleaded guilty to abusing female inmates By Diana Ramirez-Simon and agencies MARCH 16 2024 A judge called a California federal women’s prison known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates “a dysfunctional mess” on Friday as she ordered a special master to oversee the facility, marking the…
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Judge Mulls Third Contempt Case Against Arizona for Failing to Improve Prison Health Care
BY JACQUES BILLEAUD Updated 5:59 PM CDT, March 15, 2024 PHOENIX (AP) — A judge presiding over a nearly 12-year-old lawsuit challenging the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons is considering whether to launch a third contempt-of-court proceeding against the state for failing to improve prisoner care. Arizona’s system for providing medical and mental health care…
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What a New Funding Model Means for Community Colleges in Texas
House Bill 8 awards funding based on student outcomes rather than school enrollment. By Alexandra Hart & Rhonda Fanning March 21, 2024 2:55 pm Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 8, a $683 million investment in community colleges. The measure changes the funding formula for two-year colleges, awarding money based on student outcomes rather…
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Needle Pain Is a Big Problem for Kids. One California Doctor Has a Plan.
By April Dembosky, KQED MARCH 20, 2024 Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor’s office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks them with one vaccine after another. “The first shots he got, I probably cried more…
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How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health
By Amy Maxmen MARCH 12, 2024 Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected that they cannot speak. Such children are now even more vulnerable because of a law Tennessee passed last year that requires the direct consent of…
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