More than 1,564 women in the occupied areas were subjected to violations by Turkey in the past two years, while the international human rights organizations concerned with protecting the rights of women did not try to investigate facts and protect women in the occupied areas, but their file was restricted to local women’s organizations.

Kurdish girls raped and murdered with impunity by Turks

WOMAN 22 May 2020, Fri – 07:01 2020-05-22T07:01:00 QAMISHLO- SULAVA ABDEL RAHMAN _ YARA MOHAMMED

Violence and violations against women have increased in the areas of Jarabulus, Al-Bab, Azaz, Idlib, Afrin, Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî since its occupation by Turkey in August 2016, and some reports have likened these violations to the practices of ISIS mercenaries against women in the areas they previously controlled.

Tens of thousands of families are still homeless after the Turkish invasions and refugee camps especially in Shebha are shelled and bombed by the occupying mercenaries and Turkish army.

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Displaced women and some informed sources from the occupied areas by Turkey revealed the suffering of women in those areas due to the practices and violations of the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries, as women’s life was turned upside down.

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Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity, a day to consider our relationship to the natural world and this year the theme is ‘Our solutions are in nature’. The slogan emphasizes how dependent we are on healthy ecosystems for our own health and welfare. This has probably been particularly relevant this year given our […]

International Day for Biological Diversity — Caravan Correspondent

International Day for Biological Diversity

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Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity, a day to consider our relationship to the natural world and this year the theme is ‘Our solutions are in nature’. The slogan emphasizes how dependent we are on healthy ecosystems for our own health and welfare.

This has probably been particularly relevant this year here in Australia given our isolation from others, closure of business and leisure opportunities and the complete upheaval of plans we may have had for this year.

While we have had to distance ourselves from other human contact, one sanity saver has been the opportunity to get outdoors and into nature to feel some sort of normality by visiting beaches, forests, parks and rivers. I think it has given us all a sense of just how important these natural places are to our mental health for starters, and how lucky we are in Australia to have these places.

Biological diversity refers to plants, animals and microorganisms, found in nature and the different ecosystems they live in such as lakes, forest and deserts. There are a lot of reasons to be in harmony with nature and stop biodiversity loss especially when you consider that historically our medicines started in the form of herbal concoctions.

To this day many herbal remedies are still used, but science has also been responsible for the advance of medicines where active ingredients from natural sources have been made into mainstream medication, for instance aspirin is derived from willow tree bark. It stands to reason then that if we lose habitats and species, perhaps without even knowing they exist or what potential they have, we could be harming future sources of medicine too.

The indigenous people of Australia have had a respectful relationship with nature for thousands of years, relying on the natural environment to provide food, medicine and materials for their everyday living. They were aware that their actions would have a direct impact on their ability to sustain themselves and that was where habitat burning at certain times of the year and only targeting certain species for hunting were imperative for sustainable living.

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Welcome to the American Dream, run by a lunatic challenged by a geriatric. Home sweet home of the Capitalist Paradise. So Proud to be destroying the Planet. Now with the Covid massacre nearing 100,000 we are to be forced back to work or starve to death. But rejoicing together that we can once more put a Man in Space…

Back to work, or else: Trump administration tells states to pull unemployment benefits – People’s World– People’s World

WASHINGTON—GOP President Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary, Eugene Scalia, and his #2 who runs the agency that oversees jobless benefits want employers to report—and states to bar benefits from—workers who fear returning to their old jobs because their employers won’t protect them against the coronavirus.

President Donald Trump and Tony Stallings, vice president of integrated supply chain at Honeywell International Inc., right, interrogate a worker about his job during a tour of a Honeywell plant that manufactures personal protective equipment, May 5, 2020, in Phoenix, as Honeywell CEO Darius Adamczyk and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows watch. | Evan Vucci / AP

The memo, from John Pallasch, a GOP operative, an advocate for so-called charter schools and a former top Kentucky Employment Department official under right-wing GOP Gov. Matt Bevin, makes clear the intention is to deny jobless benefits to those jobless workers.

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“States must work to maintain program integrity by ensuring claimants”—workers—“are not continuing to claim benefits when they have been offered suitable work,” he declared. In other words, if you’re offered your old job, regardless of conditions, you must take it.

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Apart from seafood, the market’s offerings included live wild animals, such as foxes, crocodiles, wolf puppies, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, koalas and game meats, a previous report revealed.

Wuhan BANS eating wild animals: Five-year rule brought in after global coronavirus pandemic was linked to city’s wet markets

• New rules forbid the consumption of wildlife, including those bred by farms
• Experts believe the coronavirus outbreak was caused by the practice in China
• The virus likely jumped to humans from animals sold at a wet market in Wuhan 
• The law also bans people from producing, processing and trading wild animals 
• Beijing in February issued a temporary ban on the trading and eating of wildlife
• Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19

By Billie Thomson For Mailonline shared with thanks

The Chinese city of Wuhan has banned the eating of wild animals, a practice believed to have caused the coronavirus pandemic.

The new policy went into effect on May 13 and will stay in place for five years, according to a notice released by the Wuhan government today.

Experts in China said in January that the virus had likely jumped onto humans from wild animals sold as food at a wet market in the city of 11million.+14

The government of China’s Wuhan city has banned the eating of wild animal species, including those bred and raised by people, for five years. The file photo taken on January 17 shows the Huanan Seafood Whole Market, which is believed to be the origin of the coronavirus outbreak+14

The law forbids the consumption of all wild animals on land as well as endangered and protected wild aquatic species. In the file photo taken on January 5, 2004, workers collect civets in Xinyuan wildlife market to prevent a possible spread of SARS in Guangzhou

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