The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee crisis, with more than 620,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh in three months.
The Kwantlen Polytechnic University Geography Club encourages students to dive into the world of geography through documentaries, faculty talks, and field trips.
Yhanu Sivapalan. (submitted)
The club is in the early stages of growing, and creators Eiren Lucero and Yhanu Sivapalan are looking forward to the social aspect of collaborating with like-minded students, as well as learning more about a topic they’re interested in.
The pair hope to have the club up and running by the fall semester.
“We wanted to be able to create a community where we can learn from either the faculty themselves – whether that’s, like, putting on evening feature nights where we have different professors talking about their interests in their fields. Or maybe just communicating with different students and fostering a community where we can talk about our interests, which would be fun,” says Sivapalan, vice president and marketing creative director of the club.
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The intellectual property plan was filed by India and South Africa on 2 October and garnered support from a host of developing countries which - correctly - anticipated being left behind in the vaccination race.
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The World Trade Organization faces calls led by India and South Africa to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines a notion fiercely rejected by pharmaceutical giants and their host countries.
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The WTO will thrash out the divisive issue at its general council meeting on Monday and Tuesday as its new head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala takes up her post.
Some countries see the waiver as a shortcut to ending the novel coronavirus that has hobbled the global economy.
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