Children living in a slum receive free meal distributed by a voluntary organization during a lock down to curb the spread of coronavirus pandemic in Kolkata, India, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
THE HAGUE The coronavirus pandemic has severely affected children’s rights worldwide, with young people risking a “generational catastrophe” if governments do not act, a rights group said in an annual survey Thursday.
Millions of children have missed out on education because of COVID-19 restrictions while there will be a long term impact in terms of their physical and mental health, Dutch NGO KidsRights said as it launched its annual ranking.
So much has been said and written about the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve been flooded with metaphors, idioms, symbols, neologisms, memes and tweets. Some have referred to this deluge of words as an infodemic.
These parameters are the lenses we look through. According to literary theorist Kenneth Burke, “terministic screens”
are defined as the language through which we perceive our reality. The screen creates meaning for us, shaping our perspective of the world and our actions within it. The language acting as a screen then determines what our mind selects and what it deflects.
This selective action has the capacity to enrage us or engage us. It can unite us or divide us, like it has during COVID-19.
Also on this day in 2020, protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody, broke out for a third straight night. See more
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The Latest: Sri Lanka gets 2nd vaccine donation from China
Unidentified women comfort family members of a person who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. India crossed another grim milestone Monday with more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus, while a devastating surge of infections appeared to be easing in big cities but was swamping the poorer countryside. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin) May 25, 2021 - 7:48 PM
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka â Sri Lanka has received 500,000 doses of Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine donated by China as the Indian Ocean island nation faces severe shortage of vaccines amid a recent rise in infections.