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People gathered at Clapham Common Bandstand in south London this afternoon to pay tribute to Sarah Everard
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Hundreds of Indian women, including many widows of farmers who were believed to have killed themselves over debt, joined a protest against government reforms
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🇺🇦 The
#Ukraine
war may be miles away from families in the Middle East. But many fear it will be felt in their kitchens.
🌾 Russia and Ukraine export 29% of world's wheat. The crisis has sent food prices to a 13-year high.
Here’s how 3 countries are facing dire consequences. 🧵
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The next wave of locusts is on its way in East Africa - and it could be 20 times bigger than the first.
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"Without social media, I have no voice, and I can't do as much to help them"
@hansrajmeena
was campaigning for Indian famers until his account was blocked at the request of the government
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This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the
#RwandaGenocide
, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and left many more homeless
Here's a look at how it all unfolded...
THREAD
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@GretaThunberg
@UN
@ExtinctionR
@TRF_Climate
@anniebanerji
@nitabhalla
Johannesburg, South Africa🇿🇦
#FridaysForFuture
#ClimateStrike
#GlobalClimateStrike
(📸
@KimHarrisberg
)
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"In Asia, we have a culture of seniority, and young people aren't supposed to speak up for themselves and are not supposed to speak against adults"
Young Thais battle seniority culture to raise
#climate
awareness l
@Fridays4future
#FridaysForFuture
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📈 The
#NFT
market has exploded over the past year.
💰 Sales soared past $24.9 billion in 2021, according to market tracker
@DappRadar
.
⚠️ But more artists are sounding the alarm over thieves stealing their digital work.
⭕️ How big is the industry's fraud problem? 🧵
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India has the highest proportion of female commercial pilots in the world at 12 percent, despite the country’s patriarchal society, which typically frowns on women in such jobs
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🇾🇪 Yemen
🌾 The war-torn nation is almost entirely dependent on food imports, buying at least 27% of its wheat from Ukraine and 8% from Russia.
🥖 7 years of conflict has already left more than half of its people hungry. Now the
#RussiaUkraineConflict
is making things worse.
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"Without social media, I have no voice, and I can't do as much to help them"
@hansrajmeena
was campaigning for Indian famers until his account was blocked at the request of the government
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Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and given them more control over family matters l
#WomensRights
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The Duchess of Cambridge joined women paying tribute to Sarah Everard near to where she was last seen
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Studies show migrants do not pose a health risk in wealthy countries - they are in fact healthier than host residents.
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🌳 Ever heard of the Darién Gap?
🥾 Last year, a record 133,000 people crossed this perilous jungle route without roads, hoping to reach the U.S.
👣 We sent our reporter
@AnastasiaBogota
to walk with the migrants as they embarked on their journey. Here’s what we found. 🧵
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🇺🇸 As abortion wars escalate across the U.S., digital footprints could become a dangerous weapon.
📱 From location data to search history, online records could be used to target people if
#RoeVWade
is overturned, researchers say.
🚨 We answer 4 key questions. 🧵
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🇪🇹 The internet shutdown in Ethiopia's
#Tigray
is among the world’s longest.
⭕️ The area has been cut off since November 2020.
💻 The government of PM
@AbiyAhmedAli
says shutdowns curb violence, but critics say it's being used as a weapon of war. 🧵
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Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, will jointly receive the 2018
#NobelPeacePrize
on Monday
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Afghan schools will open for boys from Saturday, the new Taliban ministry of education said in a statement that gave no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes
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"I come from a family of farmers myself and understand what they are going through. So it is important for me to raise these issues"
@HansrajMeena
was tweeting about the
#FarmersProtests
when his account was blocked at the request of the government
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"No one is too small to make a difference"
@amnesty
presented its
#AmbassadorOfConscience
Award 2019 to
@gretathunberg
and the Fridays for Future Movement and their work to bring attention to
#climatechange
#Fridaysforfuture
#Schoolstrike4climate
#Climate
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🇱🇰 Since March, Sri Lankans have faced severe shortages - of fuel, medicine and food essentials.
Now, the country is losing yet another resource: its most skilled professionals.
✈️ From engineers to doctors, why are Sri Lankans leaving their own country? 🧵
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We spoke to
@HansrajMeena
whose account was among dozens blocked after he started tweeting his support for the
#FarmersProtests
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🇪🇬 Egypt
🌾 90% of Egypt's wheat come from Ukraine and Russia - and the conflict is now having a devastating impact.
📈 The government has been forced to raise the price of bread for the first time since the 1980s despite existing caps.
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Do you think critical race theory should be taught in the U.S.?
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It's complicated
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⭕️ We're in the middle of an economic disaster fuelled by the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis.
Around the world, ordinary families are bearing the brunt of inflation and soaring prices - and Europe isn't immune.
💰 Here’s how people are surviving in three European countries. 🧵
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1️⃣ How could data be used against pregnant people?
📺 Anti-abortion groups could use it to target them with ads.
📍 Private companies could sell their location data.
🚨 Law enforcement could use search histories to mount prosecutions.
All without their knowledge or consent.
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🇺🇸 In the U.S., a new war is emerging in classrooms.
🚫 Texas recently banned teaching critical race theory, an academic concept examining how race and racism has shaped society in America.
But it’s not the only state outlawing CRT. Here's what's happening across the nation. 🧵
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🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇺🇦 Ukraine provides about 60% of Lebanon's wheat imports.
🇱🇧 Minister
@AminSalamMET
said the country would explore alternative supply options following the
#UkraineRussiaWar
.
🥖 There are only enough stocks to meet a month's requirements, he warns.
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Amazon has a “shadow workforce” in Mexico.
In a 6-month investigation into Amazon's labour practices in the country, 15 former contract workers we spoke to alleged mistreatment and unfair dismissal after being recruited through labour agencies.
Here's what we learned 🧵
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🤖 Should
@Zoom
be able to tell when you’re sad at work - or bored during meetings?
The video conference firm is reportedly looking into building “creepy” emotion-detection AI tech into its products.
🚨 Rights groups are now sounding the alarm over privacy risks. Here's why. 🧵
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📲 Can you imagine a world with no internet?
In Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, few have been spared the effects of a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown.
🗣 "I don't know even who is dead or who is alive."
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Loans for storing crops help Niger's farmers absorb climate shocks
#Africa
@DFID_UK
@careintuk
#climate
#Sahel
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@GretaThunberg
@UN
@ExtinctionR
@TRF_Climate
New Delhi, India 🇮🇳
(📸
@anniebanerji
)
#FridaysForFuture
#ClimateStrike
#GlobalClimateStrike
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🇸🇻 Last month, El Salvador became the first country to adopt
#Bitcoin
as legal tender.
📱 But many poorer or older people are struggling to make sense of it. Here’s why. 🧵👇
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🇺🇸 In Mississippi, pregnant women have already faced charges that relied partly on their digital footprint.
⭕️ In 2018, Latice Fisher was indicted for second-degree murder after she experienced a miscarriage.
💻 The case relied in part on her web search history.
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🇧🇪 Belgium has become the first country in Europe to decriminalise sex work.
⭕️ The new policy means sex workers will have more legal protections while supporters say it fights stigma.
🇪🇺 Could other EU nations soon follow? Here’s what you need to know. 🧵
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"Marginalised communities like indigenous people, lower-caste Dalits and farmers - their voices are not heard. I have a platform on social media, so I use it to raise awareness of their problems" says
@hansrajmeena
#FarmersProtests
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"They can break our instruments, but they cannot take the music out of our hearts"
Afghanistan's first female orchestra,
#Zohra
, is challenging the conservative values left behind after years of Taliban rule
@AfghanistanInUK
@BritishMuseum
#WomensRights
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🚨 Poland, Hungary and Slovakia are among Ukraine's bordering countries preparing to receive refugees and help tend the wounded at the onset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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🌡 Climate change is making heat waves more common and outdoor labour more dangerous.
What can we learn from the migrant workers who prepared Qatar for the
#FIFAWorldCup
?
🎥 Watch our film, in collaboration with
@TIME
and supported by
@pulitzercenter
:
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🇲🇽 Many Mexicans can't afford to buy basic food...
🇧🇷 Meat is becoming a luxury in Brazil...
🇻🇪 And some Venezuelans can't even pay to bury their dead.
The cost-of-living crisis is wreaking havoc in countries worldwide.
Here’s how three nations in the Americas are coping. 🧵
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🎶 When songs become hits, it’s often due to TikTok dances made by Black choreographers.
💡 Yet they rarely get the credit they deserve.
🗣️ That's why Black creators are staging a
#BlackTikTokStrike
. Here’s why you should take notice.👇🧵
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"Some people call it slavery, I think it's simply extreme exploitation"
Film director Ken Loach talks about his new film "Sorry We Missed You", where he tackles the human impact of the 'gig economy'
Read more l
#ModernSlavery
@KenLoachSixteen
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🚨 The latest
#crypto
crash has roiled markets and spooked many investors.
But from Ukraine to Gaza to Afghanistan, people facing war or crisis say
#cryptocurrencies
are still a vital lifeline.
Here's how people in 3 countries have turned to digital coins for survival. 🧵
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There are lots of cryptocurrencies now, and Bitcoin’s alone currently accounts for about 0.5% of global energy consumption 🔌.
That’s more than Sweden 🇸🇪, but less energy than is used by household electronics in America 🇺🇸 each year.
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@GretaThunberg
@UN
@ExtinctionR
Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺
#FridaysForFuture
#ClimateStrike
#GlobalClimateStrike
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🪙 10 years ago, Afghan entrepreneur
@RoyaMahboob
started paying her all-female staff in
#bitcoin
.
🇦🇫 It helped some of them to leave the country when the Taliban took power.
But she isn’t alone. Here's why Afghans are embracing
#crypto
. 👇
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4️⃣ What are the cons?
🚨 Some say the industry is too saturated by scammers and can reward low-quality viral art.
🗣 "Anyone can take someone else's image and upload it as an NFT, hoping it'll sell," said artist
@Arvalis
.
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1️⃣ First, what is the metaverse?
🤳 It combines various tech like AR, VR to create centralized virtual spaces - or places parallel to our physical world - where people can meet, work and play.
⭕️
@ZoeTabary
explains how it could impact our lives👇
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🇪🇹 The internet shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray is among the world’s longest.
⭕️ The area has been cut off since November 2020.
💻 The government of PM
@AbiyAhmedAli
says shutdowns curb violence, but critics say it's being used as a weapon of war.
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Before we get started, some housekeeping:
1⃣
#Bitcoin
= A
#cryptocurrency
that can be used in transactions or as a store of value
2⃣ Blockchain = A decentralised database that stores information on transactions
3⃣ Blocks = A group of transactions
Got it? Let’s move on 🏃♀️.
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🤯 Did you know the global metaverse market could hit nearly $42 billion globally by 2026?
🌎 From tech giants to pop stars and entire cities, more are racing to embrace these virtual worlds.
Here are 5 major players emerging in the metaverse. 🧵
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2️⃣ Does it depend on where you live?
📱 Activists are worried about how access to such data could play out in particular states.
In Texas, people can now sue others for helping those seeking abortions, which was made illegal after 6 weeks under a law enacted last year.
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🇿🇼 Meet the Akashinga unit, Africa's first all-women anti-poaching squad.
🐘 Known as 'the brave ones', this elite team of domestic abuse survivors, former child brides and girls who didn’t finish school are protecting wildlife - and fighting poverty too.
How do they do it? 🧵
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📉 Late last year, funding cuts forced the
@WFP
to shrink aid to eight million Yemenis.
🍞 A further surge in international wheat prices means Yemenis could be more vulnerable than ever, said
@afrah_alzouba
, who heads a nonprofit working to improve humanitarian access.
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4️⃣ What do digital rights groups say?
For those trying to get an abortion:
⚠️ Use Virtual Private Networks
📍 Turn off location sharing
💬 Use encrypted messaging apps
💻 Minimize online presence
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Girls got game 🕹️🎮👾
This all-female video game coding workshop in London aims to inspire more young women to get into a heavily male-dominated industry
@PlayStation
@mediamolecule
@GirlsMakeGames
|
#GirlsMakeGames
#WomensRights
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🌻 Russia and Ukraine are also major suppliers of sunflower oil in Egypt.
👨🍳 Bakers are already feeling the sting of more expensive flour and cooking oil.
📈 One baker said his business had been hurt by a 50% jump in flour prices and a smaller spike in cooking oil prices.
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🤩 The celebrities
🎤 Pop superstar
@ArianaGrande
performed for a digital audience in
@FortniteGame
's metaverse.
Meanwhile,
@SnoopDogg
is building his own "Snoopverse" allowing paying users to attend exclusive gigs and parties, and even buy property.
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🇪🇹 The internet shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray is among the world’s longest.
⭕️ The area has been cut off since November 2020.
💻 The government of PM
@AbiyAhmedAli
says shutdowns curb violence, but critics say it's being used as a weapon of war.
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🌎 The metaverse has been hailed as the next digital frontier for humans.
🤖 Facebook’s rebrand to
@Meta
👟
@Nike
embracing crypto collectibles
💼
@BillGates
says it could even change office meetings
But what could it mean for our basic rights? We answer 6 key questions. 🧵
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Some women are out of this world 👩⚕️🚀
On International Day of Human Space Flight, we look at some pioneer women who were sent to space by their country for the first time 👇
#SpaceFlight
#WomeninScience
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☀️ Sun, sea and... NFTs?
🇵🇼 Pacific nation Palau is kicking off a digital residency scheme for so-called 'crypto-citizens.'
It hopes to revive its economy during COVID-19. But some are skeptical about what this means.
Here's what experts
@PeterJHowson
and
@OJutel
told us. 🧵👇
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DECEMBER
Miss Spain
@angelaponceof
, first transgender woman to participate in
@MissUniverse
pageant visits the Government House with
#MissUniverse
contestants, after meeting the Thai Prime Minister, in Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭, December 11, 2018
📸 Narong Sangnak/Pool via REUTERS
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🇪🇹 As fighting rages on in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, one of the world's longest telecommunications shutdowns is hampering aid deliveries, hurting business and keeping families apart.
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🔴 Texas
💬
@GovAbbott
's Senate Bill 3 came into effect last week. The measure says teachers can't discuss how one race is "inherently superior" or that someone is responsible for past actions of their race.
Students should also not feel "distress on account of... race or sex.”
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💧Today is
#WorldHealthDay
,
Diseases linked to dirty water and poor hygiene kill 1 million people a year
#WorldHealthDay2019
@WHO
@UN_Water
@wateraid
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🇺🇸 Texas has just enforced the strictest abortion law in the US.
🚨 But it’s not the only state seeking to overturn the landmark
#RoevWade
ruling in the 1970s that legalized abortion nationwide.
🧵 Here's what's happening across the nation.👇
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Bitcoin mining is energy-intensive ⚡️ because of a process called “proof of work.”
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🇪🇹 Tigrayans have reported facing heightened discrimination, harassment and abuse by government officials since the conflict began in November 2020.
Critics fear that the country's new ID system will be used for ethnic profiling.
@zekuzelalem
reports.
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1️⃣ What are NFTs?
🖥 NFTs represent a digital item like an image or video.
⚡️ They're usually bought with
#crypto
and transactions are recorded on a blockchain.
📱 On some marketplaces, anyone can create and sell NFTs, without showing proof of ownership of the original image.
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These women walking the catwalk in a fashion show in Kyrgyzstan were victims of forced marriage 🇰🇬
They encourage other women to speak out against violence and bride kidnapping
#womensrights
@UNDP
@UNDPEurasia
Read our story here ➡️
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🇱🇰 Sri Lanka is facing its worst financial crisis in more than seven decades.
The nation has been battered by a combination of factors including COVID-19 and rising oil prices.
Data suggests the number of those leaving the country was big enough to delay any economic recovery.
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🛁 Hot tubs
🍼 Free babysitting
💵 Cold hard cash
🇺🇸 Across the U.S., smaller cities are trying to lure remote workers away from big metropolitan areas with new, tempting perks.
🚐 Ready to pack a moving van? Here are 4 places you could consider calling home. 🧵
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PIC OF THE DAY: Buddhist monks pray and hold placards behind a wire barricade at Dhammakaya temple, in Pathum Thani province, Thailand
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of
@Salesforce
employees are rebelling after the tech giant announced plans to launch an
#NFT
cloud.
⚠️ In an open letter, workers raised environmental and fraud concerns - and some have even threatened to quit.
Here's why the move is causing a storm. 🧵
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"The challenges are absolutely enormous in every aspect of their lives (...) the list is endless" says
@AnnieLennox
We asked
@AnnieLennox
,
@LeylaHussein
@sholamos1
and
@ginamartin_uk
at the
#March4Women
➡️What is the biggest challenge for women today?
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🎫 No ID
🔒 No escape
⭕️ No options
This is the reality facing thousands of stateless people in Ukraine. With no proof they even exist, many are left trapped in warzones.
Are they being forgotten in this crisis? 🧵
#UkraineWar
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Meghan Markle told young girls to drown out sometimes "painfully loud" negative online chatter with positivity in remarks delivered via video to the United Nations Foundation's 2020 Girl Up Leadership Summit |
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🎧 In 2020, the song Lottery (renegade) went viral thanks to choreographer
@jalaiah
.
💃 Influencer
@charlidamelio
, who has nearly 120 million TikTok followers, used the dance and was seen as the originator.
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With the internet blocked, thousands of Indian farmers are sharing news, legal analysis and even poetry by hand - via free print copies of their own newspaper
@TimesTrolleyTT
#FarmersProtests
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📍 Nairobi, Kenya
🇰🇪 Families in slums are using virtual currency to pay for food, medicine and other essentials.
🧾 Each week, they get virtual vouchers to buy goods from businesses in a project supported by
@KenyaRedCross
.
💸 Vendors can then redeem these vouchers for cash.
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Habyarimana’s death triggered 100 days of violence, perpetrated mainly by Hutus against Tutsis and moderate Hutus
About 800,000 people were killed, many butchered with machetes by militia known as
#Interahamwe
#Rwanda
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In 1990, rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda from neighbouring Uganda
The RPF’s success prompted President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, to speed up political reforms
#RwandaGenocide
#Rwanda
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⭕️But even before the Ukraine invasion, bread was a luxury for some.
The 2020
#BeirutBlast
had destroyed Lebanon's largest storage space for grains.
🥖Though wheat imports are subsidised and bread prices capped, many worry about the future as the
#RussianUkrainianWar
continues.
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"We keep hearing, 'Soon, soon, soon'. Well, I'm so sorry to inform this government that 'soon' came & went years ago now"
Oscar-winning filmmaker
@DLanceBlack
says Britain is "ignoring the lives of queer people" by not banning LGBT+ conversion therapy
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2️⃣ How does it work?
💰 For just $248, anyone anywhere can apply for a limited edition
#NFT
ID card.
⭕️ This means they can:
🇵🇼 Use a Palauan business address
📜 Apply to change their name legally
⚡️ Open online accounts to trade
#cryptocurrencies
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⚫ From large fines to losing state funding, more Republican states are taking drastic measures to stop the teaching of critical race theory.
Read the full story from
@sharon_kits
:
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🔴 Oklahoma
🏫 Teachers' licenses could be revoked for engaging in what the law calls "race or sex-based discriminatory acts.”
This includes saying "meritocracy [or] a hard work ethic are racist or sexist."
Parents also have the right to inspect lessons and file complaints.
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Undocumented immigrants already struggle to carry enough water on scorching desert routes.
⚠️ Now, rising temperatures are making them more deadly yet.
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Before a miner can add a new block 🧊, they have to play a kind of lottery.
Each block comes with a mystery number, and the first miner to guess the right number gets to ‘mine the block’ and obtain the reward 🏅 .
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The only way of doing this is trial and error, so mining computers 🖥️ are iterating through massive numbers of guesses every second. It’s all all of these computations that use a ton of energy.
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🇹🇷 In Turkey, inflation has soared to 24-year highs.
Red meat and vegetable oil are now fast becoming a luxury for many people.
🚨 But President
@RTErdogan
has refused to raise interest rates as a solution, saying it's contrary to Islamic principles.
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