Category Archives: Social
Belarus: Activist stabs himself with pen while in court
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Belarusian activist stabbed himself in the neck during a court hearing Tuesday in Minsk to protest political repression and authorities' threats to prosecute his relatives.
Green party rift over Israeli-Palestinian conflict grows as MPs break from leader
OTTAWA — The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has exposed a fault line in the Green party, threatening political unity as lawmakers break from their leader and rank-and-file members clash with a party spokesman. The dust-up kicked off after Green MP Jenica...
New foundation seeks to help LGBT rights movement in Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Nobel laureate, a Netflix star and a fashion model are among the board members who helped launch an initiative Tuesday to raise money for LGBT rights groups in Poland, where gay men, lesbians, and bisexual
German minister laments choice of Syria for WHO board seat
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he is “anything but happy” that Syria’s government — which has waged a devastating, deadly decade-long war against dissenters — has been selected for a seat on the World Health Organization’s executive board...
Duterte opposes full disclosure of deadly drug raid details
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has rejected full public disclosure of details of his administration’s deadly anti-drug crackdown, citing national security.
Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar
Indigenous women’s group releases own plan on MMIWG, citing ‘toxic’ federal process
OTTAWA — The Native Women's Association of Canada has walked away from what it calls a "fundamentally flawed" and politically motivated process to draft a national action plan for implementing the recommendations of an inquiry into missing and murdered...
Michelle Good says residential school remains cast shadow over GGBooks fiction win
OTTAWA — Michelle Good should be celebrating the back-to-back awards for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she's mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for. Good, a member of Red Phe...
London school fights COVID fallout with laptops, bean bags
LONDON (AP) — Nik Geraj’s voice fills with pain as he talks about how he struggled to help his daughter study during the coronavirus lockdowns that shut her school for more than four months over the past year.
Biden decries ‘horrific’ Tulsa massacre in emotional speech
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in Tulsa, declaring Tuesday that he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest
