Category Archives: Viva!

E.P.A. Proposes Weaker Standards on Chemicals Contaminating Drinking Water

The proposed guidelines could have the largest effect on the Defense Department, which had objected to some of the language in an earlier proposal.

Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 – and it won’t end well this time either | Arwa Mahdawi

Like you Joe but your time is up.

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His is the vaguest and most centrist of battle cries: let’s go back to, you know, ‘all those good things’

Joe Biden wants to make America straight again. “America’s coming back like we used to be,” the former vice-president told reporters in Delaware on Thursday, shortly after he released a video officially announcing his 2020 campaign. “Ethical, straight, telling the truth … All those good things.”

Related: Joe Biden’s inappropriate touching is the embodiment of male privilege | Suzanne Moore

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Armenian MPs call for trans activist to be burned alive after historic speech

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Landmark parliamentary address on LGBTI discrimination challenges reformist agenda of post-revolution government

Armenia’s first registered transgender woman has received death threats after making a historic speech in her country’s national assembly.

Lilit Martirosyan became the first member of her country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to take to the parliamentary podium, speaking out against discrimination at a session of its committee on human rights. A video of the speech has been shared around the world.

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Hungary denying food to asylum seekers, say human rights groups

Some adults whose claims were rejected went without food for up to five days, claim activists

Hungarian authorities are systematically denying food to failed asylum seekers detained in the country’s border transit zones, say rights activists.

The policy, whereby adults whose asylum claims have been rejected are denied food, was described as “an unprecedented human rights violation in 21st-century Europe” by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights organisation working to offer legal support to those in the transit zones.

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The Long Shadow of Joe Biden’s Legacy on Violence Against Women

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The video, like so many videos ostensibly talking about how to save the world, begins with two white men in crisp white shirts and ties. One of the men is a reporter, the other is then-vice president Joe Biden. They sit facing each other on an Amtrak train, outlines of Anywhere, America, zipping past in the window.

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