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Moderna reaches deal to build vaccine manufacturing plant in Kenya – UPI.com

Source: Moderna reaches deal to build vaccine manufacturing plant in Kenya – UPI.com

Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future | Inter Press Service

Peruvian farmer Hilda Roca, 37, stands in her agro-ecological garden in Cusipata, a town located at more than 3,300 meters above sea level in the highlands of Cuzco, where she grows vegetables for her family and sells the surplus with the support of her adolescent daughter and son. CREDIT: Mariela Jara/IPS “Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her,” says Hilda Roca, an indigenous Peruvian farmer from Cusipata, in the Andes highlands of the department of Cuzco, referring to climate change and the havoc it is wreaking on her life and her environment.

From her town, more than 3,300 meters above sea level, she told IPS that if women were in power equally with men, measures in favor of nature that would alleviate the climate chaos would have been approved long ago. “But we need to fight sexism so that we are not discriminated against and so our rights are respected,” said the Quechua-speaking farmer.

The link between climate change and gender is the focus of the United Nations’ celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day, Mar. 8, under the theme “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”.

The aim is to “make visible how the climate crisis is a problem that is closely related to inequality, and in particular to gender inequality, which is expressed in an unequal distribution of power, resources, wealth, work and time between women and men,” Ana Güezmes, director of the Gender Affairs Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), told IPS.

Source: Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future | Inter Press Service

The Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat – Mother Jones

The other big problem is optics: You can’t market your product as “slaughter-free,” let alone vegan, when you used a slaughterhouse byproduct to grow it. (Although Eat Just does just that with its Singapore chicken, which is made with a “very low level of bovine serum,” a spokesperson told Mother Jones.)

As a result, cultivated-meat companies are scrambling to find FSB substitutes. Such a “serum-free” growth medium exists, reports the Good Food Institute, a think tank that supports conventional-meat replacements. Trouble is, it currently costs nearly $400 per liter—still way too high to be commercially competitive.

Source: The Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat – Mother Jones

Analysis: Texas campaigners know the problems, but don’t have real solutions | The Texas Tribune

Source: Analysis: Texas campaigners know the problems, but don’t have real solutions | The Texas Tribune

Explainer: What is a no-fly zone? – The Jerusalem Post

What is a no-fly zone?

A no-fly zone describes airspace in which specific aircraft are not allowed to fly. No-fly zones are meant to prevent attacks or surveillance over sensitive areas, such as military bases. For example, a surveillance drone would be shot down if it were flying over a designated no-fly zone, such as an air force base – as was the case at a US military base in Syria last December.

The implementation of a no-fly zone over Ukraine would mean that NATO forces would have to ground Russian aircraft flying over Ukrainian skies – by force if necessary.

Why are Western leaders hesitant to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine?

“You don’t just say ‘that’s a no-fly zone’. You have to enforce a no-fly zone,” former US air force general Philip Breedlove told Foreign Policy magazine.

Experts and government officials alike have warned that enforcing a no-fly zone would require potentially confronting Russian military jets that are in the midst of military activities, which could not possibly be interpreted as anything aside from direct military conflict.

On Friday, NATO’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, warned that the introduction of a no-fly zone could lead to a “full-fledged war in Europe involving many more countries and causing much more human suffering”.

Source: Explainer: What is a no-fly zone? – The Jerusalem Post

Esencia de mujer

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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¿Qué opino de las mujeres? Caray, mi madre fue mujer, una dama que, en casa, en el hogar maravilloso e irrepetible, me inculcó, con hechos, amor, ilusiones, sueños, amabilidad, sentimientos nobles, educación, respeto, ideales, principios y rectitud.

¿Qué pienso de las mujeres? Oh, entre mis hermanos hay dos mujeres, cada una con su identidad y con sus motivos, ejemplares e inolvidables para mí por palpitar en mi interior, por ser parte de mi linaje y de la historia prodigiosa que compartimos, por toda la riqueza y por el significado que descubro en ellas.

¿Que hablo de las mujeres? Si les expresara que mis descendientes, tesoros míos, son mujeres que siento en mi alma y me enorgullecen por su esencia, por sus valores, por sus sentimientos y por sus ideales, la humanidad y todas las criaturas entenderían lo mucho que…

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