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Nikki Haley is trying to shatter the presidential glass ceiling. She rarely mentions it

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Voters tell CNN why they like Nikki Haley

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Nikki Haley is trying to break the highest glass ceiling in politics, but you won’t hear her say so – at least not directly.

She does, however, offer fleeting glimpses at the historic nature of her Republican presidential campaign.

“There are no saints in DC right now, but that’s why I think you need a badass woman in charge at the White House,” the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador said with a smile in the closing moments of a stop here Wednesday night, answering a voter’s question about criminal charges facing some politicians in Washington.

With the first votes of the Republican presidential primary barely a month away, Haley is drawing larger crowds – and louder applause – from voters like Thalia Floras, who has been eagerly searching for an alternative to former President Donald Trump.

“It would be great to have a female president, but that is not what this is about,” said Floras, a Nashua resident who has surveyed several candidates during their visits to New Hampshire. “I think we’re past the point of talking about that. It’s about the strongest candidate, and she, right now in the Republican Party, is the strongest candidate.”

Of course, not all of Haley’s supporters are women. And not all Republican women are supporting Haley, considering most polls show that Trump still receives a strong majority of support across all demographic groups.

But the makeup of Haley’s crowds is often distinct from those of her rivals, with audiences that include mothers bringing their daughters to see the candidate and older women hoping to see presidential history made in their lifetimes.

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How an Indian farmer uses sports to save girls from early marriage

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India is home to 223 million child brides — the world’s highest. India accounts for 1 in 3 of the world’s child brides, UNICEF data shows.

By Sanket Jain // 12 December 2023

Girls from more than 50 villages train under Terase, where they learn multiple sports, the most common being kabaddi. Photo by: Sanket Jain

When Pandurang Terase, a sugarcane and rice farmer from India’s Maharashtra state, failed to turn his passion for kabaddi into a career, he ventured on a mission to train rural girls in sports for free. He never envisioned his work would someday save thousands from early and child marriage. 

Every minute, 23 girls are married globally before they turn 18, according to the United Nations Population Fund. That’s over 12 million young women every year. So widespread is the problem that nearly 650 million women alive today became brides before turning 18 years old. India is home to 223 million child brides, the world’s highest. India accounts for one in three of the world’s child brides, UNICEF data shows.

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Tensions rise as two more boats with over 300 Rohingya land in Indonesia

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Since November, more than 1,500 refugees have arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh province, triggering anger among the locals.

Rohingya Indonesia
A Rohingya woman rests on a beach following her arrival in Blang Raya, Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia [Reuters]

Published On 10 Dec 202310 Dec 2023

Over 300 Rohingya refugees have arrived on the coast of Aceh province in Indonesia after weeks of drifting across the sea from Bangladesh.

The emaciated survivors – children, women and men – told of running out of supplies and of fearing death at sea as they landed on the unwelcoming shores of the villages of Pidie and Aceh Besar in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning.

“The boat was sinking. We had no food or water left,” told Shahidul Islam, a 34-year-old survivor, saying he had left from a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

A group of 180 refugees arrived by boat at 3am local time (20:00 GMT on Saturday) on a beach in the Pidie regency of Aceh province.

The second boat carrying 135 refugees landed in neighbouring Aceh Besar regency hours later after being adrift at sea for more than a month, while a third boat is missing.

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The Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing

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WHAT IS R2P?

The Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing has emerged as an important global principle since the adoption of the UN World Summit Outcome Document in 2005.

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Background Briefing on R2P

Responsibility to Protect

The Responsibility to Protect – known as R2P – is an international norm that seeks to ensure that the international community never again fails to halt the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The concept emerged in response to the failure of the international community to adequately respond to mass atrocities committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. The International Committee on Intervention and State Sovereignty developed the concept of R2P during 2001.

The Responsibility to Protect was unanimously adopted in 2005 at the UN World Summit, the largest gathering of Heads of State and Government in history. It is articulated in paragraphs 138 and 139 of the World Summit Outcome Document:

World Summit Outcome Document

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‘War on Drugs’ Failed and Policies Need Major Overhaul – Report

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Global drug policies need an overhaul, new report says. Credit: Jonathan Gonzalez/Unsplash

Global drug policies need an overhaul, new report says. Credit: Jonathan Gonzalez/Unsplash

BRATISLAVA, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) – A major advocacy group has demanded an overhaul of global drug policies as a landmark report is released showing how governments’ complacency has perpetuated a failed ‘war on drugs’ despite its devastating consequences for millions of people around the world.

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“A Textbook Case of Genocide”: Israel’s Assault on Gaza

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Raz Segal, an Israeli expert in modern genocide, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza a textbook case of “intent to commit genocide” and its rationalization of its violence a “shameful use” of the lessons of the Holocaust. Israeli state exceptionalism and comparisons of its Palestinians victims to “Nazis” are used to “justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow mass violence against Palestinians,” says Segal.

Wives suffer one-sided marriages with ‘man-child’ husbands

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vnexpress.net By Thanh Nga   December 3, 2023 | 08:00 pm GMT+7

In the middle of washing her hair, Ngoc Trang had to run out of the shower to check on her crying baby while her husband played video games on the couch.

The 24-year-old woman living in Cau Giay District, Hanoi, said that for the past four months, she’s only managed to sleep three hours a night because she has no help caring for her child during late-night crying fits.

Instead of helping her look after the baby, her husband has been constantly occupied with his games and phone. Every time she has asked for his assistance, he has used the excuse that he had to wake up early for work.

“He sulks at me when I complain about his carelessness. In the end, I had to console both him and the baby to get some peace,” Trang said.

After being in a relationship for three years, Trang decided to marry her current husband at the beginning of 2022 not only because of his stable income, but because she had thought he was someone who was willing to share responsibilities with her.

However, after they married, he transformed into an entirely different person, she said. He left everything to her, from finding a place to rent to even when to have a baby. Whenever Trang asked his opinion about a decision, he would simply reply: “It’s up to you.”

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Châu Âu: Làn sóng di cư tiếp tục đẩy phong trào cực hữu lên cao

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ANTG – Thứ Tư, 29/11/2023, 15:35

Tình trạng di cư gia tăng trên khắp châu Âu, bao gồm cả sự gia tăng lớn nhất về số người xin tị nạn kể từ cuộc khủng hoảng di cư 2015-2016, đang thúc đẩy sự ủng hộ đối với các đảng cực hữu chống nhập cư, từ đó có khả năng định hình lại nền chính trị châu Âu trong nhiều năm tới.

Từ điểm nhấn mới nhất tại Hà Lan…

Sự ủng hộ dành cho đảng theo chủ nghĩa dân tộc ủng hộ đường lối cứng rắn hơn chống nhập cư đang tăng mạnh trong các cuộc thăm dò dư luận ở châu Âu gần đây. Và, những đảng này cũng đã tham gia vào chính phủ  ở các nước, từ Italy cho đến Phần Lan, khi mối lo ngại về tốc độ tăng trưởng kinh tế chậm chạp cũng như ảnh hưởng từ cuộc xung đột tại Ukraine và Trung Đông gia tăng.

Chính trị gia cực hữu Geert Wilders bày tỏ sự vui mừng khi đảng của ông giành thắng lợi trong cuộc bầu cử Quốc hội Hà Lan. Ảnh: BBC

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Chinese celebrity chef vows to never cook egg fried rice again after nationalist backlash

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Nectar Gan

By Nectar Gan, CNN

Updated 7:45 AM EST, Thu November 30, 2023

Fried Rice - stock photo

A delicious dish that’s more controversial in some months than others.Ray Kachatorian/Stone RF/Getty Images

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Light, tasty and simple to make, egg fried rice has long been a beloved dish in China and one of most recognizable icons of Chinese cuisine around the world.

But in recent years, the popular stir-fry has become a highly sensitive subject for China’s online nationalists, especially around the months of October and November.

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Violent gangs, disease and hunger deepen humanitarian crisis in Haiti

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Haiti: UN report says gang violence spreading, urges speedy deployment of multinational security mission

28 November 2023

People in Haiti are Living A Nightmare

GENEVA/PORT-AU-PRINCE (28 November 2023) – A new UN report out today details a further, shocking rise in gang violence in Haiti as criminal gangs forge alliances and expand to rural areas previously considered safe – killing, raping, kidnapping, and destroying property, among other abuses.

The report, released by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), calls for the urgent deployment of the Multinational Security Support mission authorized by the UN Security Council in October, in accordance with international human rights norms and standards. Increased efforts will need to be deployed to strengthen Haiti’s rule of law institutions, in particular the police, the judiciary, and the prison system, the report notes.

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Prehistoric women were probably better at hunting than men, scientists suggest

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Their metabolism meant they had superior endurance while evidence from bones showed that females suffered hunting-related wounds

ByJoe Pinkstone, SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT27 November 2023 • 7:38pm

Actress Raquel Welch on the set of One Million Years BC
Actress Raquel Welch on the set of One Million Years BC

When it comes to hunting down a sabre-tooth tiger or slaying a woolly mammoth, the fairer sex has the upper hand, according to two new studies.

It has long been claimed that in prehistoric times men were hunters while women were gatherers.

Males stalked and killed animals and women picked berries while tending to children.

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Tỷ lệ học sinh liên quan đến bạo lực gia đình là rất lớn

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NDO – Học sinh là con trong các gia đình bạo lực vừa có thể là người chứng kiến, vừa là đối tượng bị bạo lực, bị bỏ rơi. Do đó việc ngăn chặn, giải quyết bạo lực gia đình là một mắt xích rất quan trọng.

Thứ ba, ngày 07/11/2023 –

Chiều 7/11, Quốc hội tiếp tục tiến hành Phiên chất vấn và trả lời chất vấn. Đại biểu Vương Quốc Thắng (đoàn Quảng Nam) đặt câu hỏi tại sao “tình trạng bạo lực học đường diễn ra phức tạp” như trong Báo cáo của Chính phủ gửi đại biểu Quốc hội đã nêu.

Đại biểu Thắng thắc mắc những nguyên nhân gây ra tình trạng này và chất vấn Bộ trưởng Giáo dục và Đào tạo về hướng khắc phục “thật căn cơ” trong thời gian tới.

Tỷ lệ học sinh liên quan đến bạo lực gia đình là rất lớn ảnh 1
Đại biểu Vương Quốc Thắng (đoàn Quảng Nam).

Cứ 50 cơ sở giáo dục thì có một vụ bạo lực học đường

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Medical Misogyny: Why Are Women Overlooked In Healthcare Systems Globally?

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Many of the world’s healthcare systems are male-centred, rooted in patriarchal concepts and gender bias. From women’s access to healthcare being contingent on the willingness or financial capability of male relatives, to the exclusion of women in clinical trials, to the dismissal of women’s medical concerns and decisions about their own health and bodies, misogyny is prevalent in modern medicine, often resulting in misdiagnoses and even death. The issue of what’s now called obstetric violence has emerged, as more female patients speak out about their mistreatment and abuse by medical practitioners, particularly around the vulnerable time of childbirth.

The World Health Organization describes obstetric violence as “abuse, disrespect and mistreatment in childbirth that result in violations of women’s dignity by health professionals”.

But while awareness of medical misogyny is growing, many cultural, social, and legal barriers prevent its complete eradication.

00:00 Introduction

00:53 Indian women’s limited access to healthcare

07:12 Gender disparity in UK medical research

14:56 The rise of obstetric violence