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• Democratic erosion Across Asia and the Pacific will undermine climate change solutions | Mike Runey

  24 December 2022

  by Mike Runey *
  This year, Pakistan experienced devastating monsoon floods that left one-third of the country submerged and nearly 1,600 dead. In Australia, the lengthening bushfire seasons and floods on an unprecedented scale and intensity shifted voter support to independent, climate-conscious candidates. Exit polls showed climate to be the second most important issue after the economy, pushing the new Labour government to be more sensitive to international climate targets. Across (…)

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  Independent report on schooling crisis in Jharkhand (Dec 19, 2022)

  24 December 2022

  This report presents the main findings of a survey of 138 primary and
  upper-primary schools in Jharkhand, conducted in September-October
  2022 by Gyan Vigyan Samiti Jharkhand (GVSJ). The schooling system in
  Jharkhand, weak to start with, suffered a heavy blow during the Covid-
  19 crisis. [ . . . ]
  READ THE FULL REPORT HERE:

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  Letter to UN Sec Gen on procedural lapse while adopting the biodiversity framework at COP15 Montreal, Dec 2022 | S Faizi

  24 December 2022

  From: Faizi S Date: Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 1:34 PM Subject: UN CBD COP’s breach of the ROP: CBD COP doesnt have a legal advisor To: UN -> sgcentral[at]un.org Cc: CBD Executive Secretary -> executivesecretary[at]cbd.int
  To
  The Secretary General
  United Nations
  CC: The Executive Secretary
  CBD Secretariat
  Your Excellency,
  Greetings.
  1. The adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework by the CBD COP15, early this week, raises issues of substance as well as serious procedural (…)

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  Statement on Taliban’s Ban of Female Students from Universities in Afghanistan - W R N | Dec 20, 2022

  24 December 2022

  Women’s Regional Network
  Statement Condemns Taliban’s Ban of Female Students from Universities in Afghanistan
  On December 20, 2022, the Taliban announced a new edict banning girls from higher education. Women’s Regional Network (WRN) condemn the ban of female students from University Education. This decision of the Taliban against girls and women in Afghanistan demonstrates that the regime deliberately and systematically erases women by implementing gender-apartheid policies. While the (…)

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  Text of Statement from Foreign Ministers on Taliban Decision to Ban Women from Universities (Dec 21, 2022)

  24 December 2022

  Statement from Foreign Ministers on Taliban Decision to Ban Women from Universities (21 Dec. 2022)
  The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the High Representative for the European Union strongly condemn the Taliban’s recent decisions to ban women from universities, to continue to bar girls from secondary schools, and to impose other harsh restrictions on the ability (…)

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  Review: Thøgersen on Gasma’s ’Harbin: A cross-cultural biography’

  24 December 2022

  Reviewed by Stig Thøgersen (Aarhus University)
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  Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography
  by Mark Gamsa
  University of Toronto Press
  2022. 394 pp.
  ISBN 978-1-4875-4424-9.
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  This ambitious book runs along three parallel tracks. It tells the history of the city of Harbin in northeastern China; it gives an account of the life of Baron Roger Budberg, a physician with Russian citizenship who spent most of his life in that city; and it discusses, from several angles, the (…)

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  Photo: Diaethria phlogea, the 89’98 butterfly from Colombia

  24 December 2022
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  Trial form of Louise Michel after the repression of the Paris Commune, 11th December 1871

  24 December 2022

  Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a French anarchist, who played a key role in the revolutionary events of the Paris Commune (1871). Following the brutal military repression of the Commune, most of the Communards or leaders of the Paris commune were sentenced to death or were deported to New Caledonia, as was Louise Michel. This document is the original trial form of Louise Michel, which lists her charges before the trial

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  Music: Bella Ciao in Persion

  24 December 2022

  Play
  Bella Ciao Persian Version by Khalil Khoshrou https://youtu.be/0DU9DzuV3GU

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  Kalpana (1948) by Uday Shankar

  24 December 2022

  Directed by - Uday Shankar
  Starring - Uday Shankar, Amala Shankar, Lakshmi Kanta, Usha Kiran, etc.
  Music by - Vishnudas Shirali
  Lyrics by - Sumitranandan Pant
  Cinematography - K. Ramnoth
  Edited by - N. K. Gopal Play
  Kalpana (1948) | Uday Shankar | Amala Shankar (Full Movie with Subtitles) by Bioscoop Movies https://youtu.be/HhsO_q1Y7kM