Vasumathi Anandan வசு
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Humanitarian 🕊️Advancing Human Rights through Social Policy and Social Protection 🇺🇳👩🏻💻 Work in Progress 📚 Views mine 🙋🏻♀️
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“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sunday is #WorldBrailleDay, an opportunity to celebrate the power of Braille in transforming lives. Braille empowers blind & partially-sighted people to fully realize their human rights, offering access to education, employment & independence. https://t.co/ic3foNio8L
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"I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life." Rainer Maria Rilke d. 29 Dec 1926 Balcony, Valencia by Robert Frank, 1952.
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Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists
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A heartwarming moment of reunification amid tragedy. Watch how UNICEF and partners helped reunite brothers Aghouk, 9, and Geregh, 7, with family in Ethiopia, after they fled the war in Sudan and became separated. #ForEveryChild, peace so they can achieve their dreams in safety.
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More data doesn’t always mean better decisions. F&D editor in chief Gita Bhatt explains how alternative data and official statistics can work together to improve policy. https://t.co/tPUdca2H4s
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Beautiful read on Christmas morning, “Christmas is a Palestinian story. To remember Bethlehem is to remember that God stands with the oppressed and that the followers of Jesus are called to do the same.” Writes @MuntherIsaac @AJEnglish
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Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.
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India’s one million all-women ASHA volunteers were honoured by the WHO (World Health Organisation) yesterday for their “crucial role” in providing direct access to healthcare facilities in rural areas during the Covid Pandemic.
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Will the Election Commission of India’s ongoing SIR (Special Intensive Review) in Tamil Nadu lead to mass disenfranchisement of live, actually existing and residing, legitimate voters? Or do the emerging patterns and trends reflect mostly the present ECI’s non-transparent,
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“We saw dead bodies, destruction, people tired from walking, those injured and bleeding.”- Azraa, 9, whispers in pain, recalling her family’s journey from Zamzam camp to Al Fasher and now to Tawila. No child should go through this. The violence must end.
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Read and endorse this — An open letter to the Indian government in support of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act - https://t.co/Xn0rXPl34e For the best experience read this on The Hindu App.
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Last night, the Modi government demolished twenty years of MGNREGA in one day. VB–G RAM G isn’t a “revamp” of MGNREGA. It demolishes the rights-based, demand-driven guarantee and turns it into a rationed scheme which is controlled from Delhi. It is anti-state and anti-village
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Children who are forced to migrate because of conflict, poverty and climate change often face additional danger and discrimination on their journey. This #MigrantsDay, join us in sharing this message widely: every child - no matter who or where they are - has the right to
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‼️Children are #NotATarget ‼️ UN condemns deadly drone strikes on a nursery and hospital in South Kordofan, which led to more than 100 killed, ncluding 63 children. https://t.co/lpeXKOIijV
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"Let us commit to working side-by-side with persons with disabilities in all their diversity, as equal partners. Together, we can build more accessible, resilient societies where all of us thrive." - @antonioguterres
#EveryoneIncluded
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Children are children. Wherever they live, they need to be protected. Children are #NotATarget!
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Every school shld have moringa, amla, lemon & guava trees, & seasonal vegetables (local, traditional) as feasible. Ultra processed foods and sugary drinks must be banned from schools. Healthy eating must start early. @EduMinOfIndia @MinistryWCD @DCsofIndia @AgriGoI @UNICEFIndia
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Discrimination and stigma create serious obstacles for persons with disabilities. Wednesday’s #DisabilityDay is an opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to respecting all people and ensuring an accessible, inclusive world for all. via @UNDP
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People with disabilities make up an estimated one billion of the world’s population. Yet their right to #DecentWork is still too often denied. By including them, companies, individuals and society at large all win. #DisabilityDay
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