Mon 26 February 2024: New Delhi, India – India averaged nearly two anti-Muslim hate speech events per day in 2023 and three in every four of those events – or 75 percent – took place in states ruled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, revealed a report released Monday. In 2023, the hate […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: Worldwide in 2020 a baby died every 40 seconds because of complications of prematurity. Preterm birth is the leading cause of death among children under 5 years old. The burden of preterm birth is heavier in in low- and middle-income countries, where around 80% occur. The countries with the highest recorded preterm rates in Africa are […]
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Satellite images show hundreds of trucks waiting at Rafah border crossing. Maxar Technologies/AFP Photo] Fri 23 February 2024: Over the past days, the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights has published three reports accompanied by videos and photos from the buffer zone in North Sinai, a few kilometres from the Egyptian border with the Gaza […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: In March and August 2018, up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, Brenton Tarrant posted publicly online that he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified. In fact, for four years before his attack, Tarrant had been posting anonymously but publicly on the […]
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The Bengali language versions of Sanskriti Bodhmala textbooks [Snigdhendu Bhattacharya/Al Jazeera] Tue 20 February 2024: The chain of schools run by the BJP’s far-right ideological mentor also served as a laboratory for government changes to syllabuses. Kolkata, India – At the three-storey building of Sarada Shishu Vidya Mandir, a school for grades five to 10 […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: With the advent of Internet today, production and distribution of multimedia is all in digital form. From the slabs of the initial printing press for the elite class to the widespread availability of complete libraries and reading material for anyone with an Internet connection, we have come a long way. Initially […]
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Photos of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, with flowers and candles, are laid on a ground in front of the Russian embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Friday, February 16, 2024 Mon 19 February 2024: In the last known video of Alexey Navalny shot one day before his death on Friday, the lanky, fair-haired 47-year-old looks […]
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Sun 18 February 2024: Academic research tends to focus on the negative aspects and sexual dangers of girls and young people viewing porn. But what do girls themselves say about growing up in a world where porn is so readily available from such a young age? It’s a question Deevia Bhana, a professor in gender […]
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Sun 18 February 2024: Beirut/Tripoli, Lebanon — The entrance to the Burj Barajneh refugee camp is covered in the small yellow flags of the Palestinian group Fatah displaying the faces of the late Yasser Arafat and his successor, current Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. But these are not the men of the hour. That honour is […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: London, United Kingdom – For Sophia Naqvi, a longtime Labour Party activist, the lightbulb moment came just days into the current Middle East crisis. On October 11, four days after Hamas killed Israeli citizens and took many captive, Israel was responding with an aggressive campaign of air attacks and blockades. The Labour […]
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