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Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 6:13 am
When
your country’s in turmoil, what can you do?
When
you are a long way away, you know you have to do everything
possible to help.
This is story of the Otago
community, a part of the national response to unspeakable
violence in Myanmar.
“When I heard about the coup in
Myanmar, I felt shock, anger and overwhelming grief. I
wondered what can I do? Doing nothing is not an
option,”says Aye, Hnin Phyu, a final-year medical student
at the University of Otago.
Three months after the
military takeover on 1 February 2021, Myanmar is in
turmoil.
Press Release – Solidarity Myanmar When your countrys in turmoil, what can you do? When you are a long way away, you know you have to do everything possible to help. This is story of the Otago community, a part of the national response to unspeakable violence in Myanmar. When I heard …
When your country’s in turmoil, what can you do?
When you are a long way away, you know you have to do everything possible to help.
This is story of the Otago community, a part of the national response to unspeakable violence in Myanmar.
“When I heard about the coup in Myanmar, I felt shock, anger and overwhelming grief. I wondered what can I do? Doing nothing is not an option,”says Aye, Hnin Phyu, a final-year medical student at the University of Otago.
Friday, 15 January 2021, 11:25 am
Celebrations in Aotearoa New Zealand to mark the entry
into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons (TPNW) will begin on Thursday 21 January with ICAN
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Wellington and online event, and
continue on Friday 22 January.
The TPNW bans the
development, testing, production, manufacture, possession,
transfer, use or threat of use, deployment, installation or
stationing of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive
devices, as well as assistance, encouragement or inducement
of any of these prohibited activities. It provides a pathway
for nuclear-armed states to join and to destroy their
nuclear weapons in a time-bound, verifiable and irreversible