AFP – At age 89, Palestinian Liga Jabr remembers how conflict uprooted her family when she was a child. Now, 75 years later, she said the war raging in Gaza is even worse. “This war is harder than any of the displacements” brought by previous conflicts, Jabr told AFP in Rafah refugee camp, on the […]
Click to expand Image A trader counts out Ghanaian cedi banknotes at a market in Kampala, Uganda, May 17, 2023. 2023 Katumba Badru Sultan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Washington) - Governments and international financial institutions should make a commitment to create social security systems that enable everyone to realize their rights, 43 human rights and economic justice organizations said today. Governments and financial institutions should end policies that have been failing millions of people. The groups sent a joint statement to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in advance of the 2023 annual meetings of both institutions in Marrakesh, Morocco, from October 9 to 15, 2023. The groups will hold an online meeting on October 4 to explain their call for change. Experts and activists will provide testimonies from Argentina, Chile, Uganda, and Sri Lanka. "Amid mounting poverty and soaring inequality, where millions grapple daily to realize their economic, social and cul
“It’s hard to know that you’re there and there’s nothing you can do and there are people dying all around you,” said Roseville resident and Las Vegas mass shooting survivor Lisa Fine.
NEW ORLEANS Louisiana s governor planned to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was arrested in an unsucc