(68) Canada Pledges $31.5 Billion to Settle Fight Over Indigenous Child Welfare System
The Canadian government agreed to pay $31.5 billion to repair the country’s discriminatory child welfare system and compensate Indigenous families. “This is the largest settlement in Canadian history. Half will go toward compensating both children who were unnecessarily removed, and their families and caregivers, over the past three decades. The rest of the money will […]
(67) Enset Plants Could Feed More Than 100 Million People
A new study suggests that a plant relative of the banana, found only in Ethiopia, has the potential to feed more than 100 million people in warming environments if its cultivation were to be expanded. Enset, also known as the “false banana,” is a starchy crop that is a food staple in Ethiopia. While its […]
(66) Parents Selling Children Shows Desperation In Afghanistan
Across Afghanistan, mothers and fathers are selling their children to make ends meet as tens of millions face mass starvation. Aid groups say one million children are on the brink of death from malnutrition in the coming winter months – a figure greater than the total number of civilian casualties from the 20-year war. A […]
(65) What Is the “Male Gaze” ?
The male gaze describes a way of portraying and looking at women that empowers men while sexualizing and diminishing women. While biologically, from early adolescence on, we are driven to look at and evaluate each other as potential mates, the male gaze twists this natural urge, turning the women into passive items to possess and […]
(64) Amazon’s ‘Dieback’ Scenario R eleases Massive Carbon Into The Atmosphere
Wildfires and deforestation are pushing the Amazon rainforest toward a dieback scenario: an irreversible cycle of collapse. The rain in the rainforest is not an accident of geography or meteorology. The towering mahogany, kapok, and Brazil nut trees of the Amazon play important parts in the orchestra of the region’s water system. The trees take […]
(63) How the U.S. Betrayed the Marshall Islands, Kindling the Next Nuclear Disaster
Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, including lethal amounts of plutonium. Nowhere else has the United States saddled another country with so much of its nuclear waste, a product of its Cold War atomic […]
(62) Over 130 Million Girls May Not Go Back To School After The COVID-19 Crisis
That’s the number of girls who might not return to school this year due to COVID-19’s unprecedented education disruption. This alarming number not only threatens decades of progress made towards gender equality, but also puts girls around the world at risk of adolescent pregnancy, early and forced marriage, and violence. For many girls, school is […]
(61) The Taliban’s Return Is Catastrophic For Women In Afghanistan
Since the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan in July, the Taliban have swiftly taken control of large parts of the country. The president has fled and the government has fallen. Emboldened by their success, lack of resistance by Afghan forces and minimal international pressure, the Taliban have intensified their violence. For Afghan […]
(60) 3,462 Christians Killed in Nigeria in 200 days, 3000 Abducted, 300 Churches Attacked
The International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), a nonprofit based out of Nigeria, has released a report in which they say that roughly 3,462 Christians have been killed already in 2021 by Fulani militants and Boko Haram throughout Nigeria. In addition, 3000 Christians have been abducted, while 300 churches and […]
(59) Germany Officially Recognizes It Committed Genocide In Present-Day Namibia
Germany has admitted for the first time that it committed genocide in Namibia by killing an estimated 100,000 people, belonging to two ethnic groups more than a century ago. From about 1884 to 1915, Germany occupied several territories in Africa. Its colony in German South West Africa, in what is now Namibia. After settlers seized […]