In an email interview with TNH, Laetitia Bader, the Horn of Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said her organisation has received reports of Tigrayans outside of the northern region being harassed on the street, profiled at airports and cafes, and having their homes arbitrarily searched by Ethiopian security forces.

“The discrimination by state agents could fuel further discrimination or harm,” Bader said. “The government should immediately investigate these incidents, hold those responsible to account, and make clear that any violence, discrimination, or hostility against Tigrayans or any other group will not be tolerated.”

Media reports claim that Tigrayan soldiers serving on an African Union peacekeeping mission fighting Islamist insurgents in Somalia have had their weapons removed. And Tigrayan employees at Ethiopian Airlines – pilots, caterers, technicians, and security guards among them – have reportedly been instructed by their superiors to stay at home until further notice.

High-profile Tigrayans have also been accused by the government of supporting the TPLF. In November, Ethiopia’s army chief said – without providing evidence – that the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was trying to procure weapons and secure diplomatic support for the Tigrayan party. Tedros denied the allegations.

Source: The New Humanitarian | Tigrayans claim discrimination and abuse

via aleksey godin. More than 1,000 years of discrimination against women in government to make up for… just saying.

City mayor Anne Hidalgo mocks the “absurd” penalty for breaking equal employment rules.

“If the biggest hotspots for Covid are prisons, doesn’t it make sense to inoculate everyone from the guards to the prisoners?” said Ashish Prashar, a justice reform advocate at Publicis. Source: Coronavirus: Prisoners have been excluded from Covid vaccine plans

County Supervisor Doug Chaffee said he received a text message from a medical professional at St. Jude Medical Center last night that indicated the hospital is at “99% capacity.”

The hospital’s 301 beds are full with 138 COVID-19 patients, said Chaffee.

“The ICU is at 105% capacity,” Chaffee said. “They’re using every available bed. The emergency department has an overflow…All the Orange County hospitals are in the same situation. It is dire, so they’ll soon be erecting a tent in the parking lot, probably for triage. I think what we’re seeing is not a surge, but a tsunami.”

Source: Covid-19 Update: Southern CA Deploys Field Hospitals, May Ration Care – Deadline

India’s nosediving Covid-19 numbers may have come as a relief but till November, the country had missed about 90 infections for every detected case.

While states like Delhi and Kerala had missed just about 25 infections for every case, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are estimated to have missed about 300 infections for every case detected. A case in medical terms refers to an infection that has been medically diagnosed.

Source: India is missing about 90 infections for every Covid case, latest govt analysis shows

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday declared that he will be taking the COVID-19 vaccine and has encouraged all members of parliament to beseech upon their constituents the need to get the jab.

“It would help if the opinion leaders in this House would indicate to their constituents that they should take a more embracive and supporting posture towards vaccination,” Holness said.

Source: I am taking the vaccine – Holness | News | Jamaica Star

The Church of All Nations built on the land of Gethsemane in East Jerusalem survived Dec. 4 an attempted arson attack. An Israeli settler had lit a fire inside the church before it was quickly extinguished, causing only minor damages.

With the help of young Jerusalemites, the church guard managed to catch the settler before he escaped and turned him over to the Israeli police.

Hamza Ajaj, a 30-year-old Jerusalemite who lives next to the church, was an eyewitness to the attempted arson attack. Ajaj told Al-Monitor, “I was sitting in front of my house at around 2 p.m. when I saw the church guard, who is also a friend of mine, running outside the church. So I ran after him to check what was going on. He told me that a settler set fire to the church and ran away.”

Ajaj added, “The settler took advantage of the fact that there were no worshippers and tourists in the church — which is closed as part of the coronavirus-related measures — to break into the place and pour a flammable substance on the church’s wooden benches and set it alight before fleeing. We were able to catch him and hand him over to the Israeli police.”

Source: Israeli settler attacks on church sanctities in Palestine continue amid lax international response – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Source: Air Force doctor at JBSA-Lackland first to get COVID-19 vaccine in San Antonio

21st Century Colonialism: Implemented by Corporations and NGOs? Whose survival is at stake here, Survival? The survival of rainforests and indigenous peoples or Cartier and others in the luxury gold and diamond jewelry industry?

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: pubblicità di Cartier “La follia dell’uomo ha aumentato il valore dell’oro e dell’argento a causa della loro scarsità; mentre la natura, come un genitore amorevole, ci ha donato gratuitamente le cose migliori, come l’aria, la terra e l’acqua, ma ci ha nascosto quelle vane e inutili. “Thomas More,”Utopia“, libro…

Colonialismo del 21 ° secolo: implementato da corporazioni e ONG? Di chi è in gioco la sopravvivenza qui, Survival? La sopravvivenza delle foreste pluviali e delle popolazioni indigene o di Cartier e altri nel settore della gioielleria di lusso in oro e diamanti? — Barbara Crane Navarro