North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for efforts to tackle the isolated country's falling birth rates, describing the challenge as "everyone's housekeeping", state media KCNA reported on Monday. "Preventing a decline in birth rates and good childcare are all of our housekeeping duties we need to handle while working with mothers," Kim said at the event. The United Nations Population Fund estimates that as of 2023 the fertility rate, or the average number of children being born to a woman in North Korea, stood at 1.8, amid an extended fall in the rate during recent decades.
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and say they carried out housekeeping duties rather than acts of terror in estimates at around fifty women with german citizenship or are imprisoned or live in refugee camps in syria and iraq or authorities there while the match as quickly as possible but germany is reluctant to take them back out during that it s difficult to determine whether they are citizens and whether they pose any security risk d.w. has been to visit a syrian refugee camp and spoke with one woman with a german passport who is desperate to come back. stranded in the middle of nowhere seventy four thousand people live in the al whole camp in northern syria it was made to hold only ten thousand the conditions are unacceptable especially for children most people want to leave as soon as possible they want to return to their former homes which they left years ago so they could live under the rule of the jihadist group islamic state out of conviction carelessness or compulsion. they now
it s been over a week now since international forces declared the defeat of so-called islamic states last holdout in syria and in the aftermath a number of western countries including germany are debating what to do with their nationals were captured while fighting or supporting i have asked among those captured are women who joined islamic state many claim they were forced to do so and say they carried out housekeeping duties rather than. acts of terror not only in syria but in iraq as well according to the german government about fifty women with german citizenship are either imprisoned or live in refugee camps in syria and iraq now local authorities want to get rid of them as quickly as possible but the german government is reluctant to take them back it says it s difficult to determine if the women are in fact citizens or if they pose a security threat we met one german woman in a syrian refugee camp who is desperate to come back to germany.
it feels like dorm life at college. bathrooms are communal, everybody rotates housekeeping duties, everybody shuffles off at designated hours to the galley, where the cooks do the very best they can given the infrequent delivery of what are called in longing tones around here freshies, or anything not frozen, canned, or prepared. the little connectivity i have with the outside world, i owe entirely to you. you have been helping me enormously. joni works i.t. and has been coming here for nine seasons. but it s coming, right? i mean, sooner or later they re going to put a satellite up there and everyone down here is going joni: maybe. i mean, we re a long way away from having cell service down here and everybody having internet like at home. anthony: it s really the last place on earth for cell service. kristy is a heavy equipment operator, coming for 19 seasons. kristy: i actually started off two seasons in the galley, and then i ended up getting trained on the equipment. anth