Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each
“It’s not unheard of for the U.N. to give people seed money so they can boost their livelihoods, but to mesh that with compensation for a sexual assault, or a crime that results in the birth of a baby, is unthinkable,”
#Congo #WorldHealthOrganization #SexualAbuse #Sexism
Hamas Didn’t Attack Israelis Because They Are Jewish
Palestinians, of course, do not care what religion their occupiers are. Like all occupied people, they will resist whoever is occupying them. My mother’s cousin Marc, in the Belgian Resistance, did not stab a German soldier because the soldier was Christian. The very idea is ludicrous. We need a basic analysis of power and history to understand that Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians, while egregious, had nothing to do with those Israelis’ religion and everything to do with occupation and settler colonialism.
#Hamas #FreePalestine #Israel #GazaUnderaAttack
Nature’s call: Why even 100 million toilets is not enough to overcome India’s age-old practice
India often claims it has built 100 million toilets since 2014 and has become an ‘open defecation free’ country. In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the Global Goalkeeper Award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission), under which millions of toilets have been built across the country.
#India #Politics #Poverty #sanitation
The universe is expanding faster than theory predicts – physicists are searching for new ideas that might explain the mismatch
To study what types of solutions could explain the Hubble tension, we developed statistical tools that enabled us to test the viability of the entire class of models that change the expansion rate in the late universe. These statistical tools are very flexible, and we used them to match or mimic different models that could potentially fit observations of the universe’s expansion rate and might offer a solution to the Hubble tension.
#TheUniverse #bigbangtheory #Science #Space
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