Suggested by Sissy Vovou Brazil’s first-ever minister of Indigenous peoples, Sônia Guajajara, has been a key figure in the fight for Indigenous rights since her appointment in January by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In September, nine of 11 justices on Brazil’s supreme court voted to block efforts to place a time restriction on …
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Proposed by Sissy Vovou Scientists have discovered that female snakes have claws. Megan Folwell, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Adelaide in Australia, has managed to find and describe for the first time in scientific chronicles the clavicle of a female snake. Apart from birds, cloves have all vertebrae, even lizards. However, nothing relevant …
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A very well organised conference in Barcelona, 4 and 5 of November, with dozens of contributions from women journalists and/or activist journalists (like the undersigned), from Barcelona and many parts of the Mediterranean. They gave a strong picture of the conditions of women journalists but also the situation in each country or periphery, and most …
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Interesting analysis https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/WILPF_Environmental-Zine_EN-Web-spreads.pdf
1/7/2020 Article by Kalyani Menon Sen What decades of advocacy on climate change could not do, Covid-19 has done. Motivated by terror of an invisible but deadly enemy, millions of people have withdrawn from public spaces. Buses, trucks and cars have disappeared from our streets. Airports and train stations are silent and empty. Shops and …
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