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More than 2,000 Afghan evacuees detained in UAE: Report End-shutdown
More than 2,000 Afghans who fled their country after the Taliban seized power are being held indefinitely in the United Arab Emirates, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. An estimated 2,400 to 2,700 Afghans have been “arbitrarily detained” in a housing facility dubbed the “Emirates Humanitarian City” for more than 15 months, […]
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Solar geoengineering should be regulated, says UN report End-shutdown
CLIMATEWIRE | A panel of climate experts convened by the United Nations is calling for international regulations to be extended into the stratosphere. The recommendation, detailed in a report released Monday, it could help manage risks associated with spraying sunlight-reflecting aerosols dozens of miles above Earth’s surface. Such stratospheric aerosol injection is largely untested and […]
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Sexual assaults against adolescent girls are on the rise in 2021, according to a CDC report End-shutdown
the recent report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who found an unprecedented wave of grief and sadness among adolescent girls discovered a startling statistic: In 2021, nearly 20 percent said they had been the victim of violent sexual behavior. More than one in 10 had been raped, they said. While women of […]
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Stephen Miller Hatched Secret Plan To Hire ICE Agents At Children’s Refugee Agency: Report End-shutdown
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller has pushed through a “secret” plan to recruit immigration agents into a refugee agency that deals with unaccompanied migrant children. the washington post reports. Miller, who argued that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) was being exploited by families who hired traffickers to […]