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Poster: Illustration of care workers and young and older users. UNCSW70 Online Parallel Event Recognising Care as a Human Right A GLOBAL IMPERATIVE PSI 11 MAR 08.30-10.30 EDT 13:30-15:30 CET REGISTER PSISHORT.LINK/HR2C

🫶 Recognising Care as a Human Right

UNISON President Catherine McKenna will be speaking about care in the UK and our work towards a national care service 💜

🗓️ 11 March
💻 Online - Register here free: PSISHORT.LINK/HR2C @psiglobalunion.bsky.social

EU Opens Funds For Safe Abortion Access But Long-term Financing Remains Uncertain - Health Policy Watch In a landmark decision, the European Commission is allowing member states to utilize existing EU funds to finance access to safe abortions.

While the new abortion funding pathway set by the European Union offers a legislative solution, it lacks long-term financial security . The fund relies on voluntary budgetary reallocation by member states, leaving women dependent on political goodwill of national governments.

Will we be forced to salute them all?

Maybe a supervised pledge of allegiance every morning in your workplace, too?

Daily mass meetings where we are expected to shout "Heil Nigel", and non-participants quietly disappear?

Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis

Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt

Teenage Girls Struggle to Access Contraceptives in Public Hospitals Despite Women’s Day focus on Rights - Ghetto Radio In Summary Bodily autonomy is a non‑negotiable human right, yet the chronic shortage of family planning commodities in Kenyan public hospitals is a direct violation of this dignity. While Kenya's Cons...

The chronic shortage of family planning commodities in Kenyan public hospitals is a direct violation of bodily autonomy. Kenya’s Constitution guarantees reproductive health but over 60% of facilities face frequent contraceptive stock‑outs.

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One year since I was fired from the Department of Justice YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

One year since she was fired from DOJ for not giving guns back to a domestic abuser... (Gibson)

Her calm way of getting quickly to the truth makes her one of my "go-to" accounts when things are happening at DOJ. Let's support @lawyeroyer.com !

youtube.com/shorts/xs9N_...

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Literally everything the Heritage Foundation suggests is nauseating

“The state’s proposed “trigger laws,” …are direct challenges to Plyler v. Doe, a narrowly decided 1982 Supreme Court case that enshrined the right to a free K–12 public education regardless of immigration status.”

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expec...

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

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I lied 🤥😉😂😂

Last one now

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ℹ️Insurance is a key vulnerability point in our financial system; and is fundamental to devastating, profit-driven imperialism and corporate extraction.

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How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Democracy in the UK

Unelected Head of state
Unelected second chamber of parliament
MPs pressurized to toe the party line
Political parties, too many legislators available for hire to the super-rich
Unlike the EU no workplace democracy

FPTP skews election outcomes

Deep social/economic problems.

Letters: Every school should have free SEND training.

A reader working in the education system suggests the areas on which the government should focus in its SEND reforms.

Historically, people-powered protests have helped to stop wars, and fight against racism, sexism and oppression. Together, our voices are powerful.

If you can, stand with us to show your support here 👇🏼
donate.amnesty.org.uk?campaign=kai...

Amnesty UK has partnered with our long-term Ambassadors Kaiser Chiefs on their UK tour to raise funds & awareness of Amnesty’s campaign to protect the right to protest.

We need your help to stop the crackdown on protests in the UK & to ensure everyone gets the freedom to stand up for their rights.

Child poverty in one parent families is a national disgrace - and a big cause of that is absent parents, usually fathers, who don't pay maintenance and a Child 'Maintenance' Service that lets them.

Please do add your name.

Pleas over Scottish Water rejected as customers face rising bills for six years Scotland's largest trade union Unison has said the government's stance on Scottish Water is "deeply concerning" amid proposals by the…

Scotland's largest trade union, UNISON, has said the government's stance on Scottish Water is "deeply concerning" amid "eye-watering" executive pay and proposals by the publicly-owned company for a major hike to customer charges for the next six years.

Less than 1 in 10 pounds of bank lending going to productive investment New research from Positive Money finds that less than 1 in 10 pounds of bank lending is going to productive investment

Less than £1 in £10 of bank lending last year went to the real economy.

More than 85% went to speculative activities, leaving consumers and productive sectors with just 15%.

Banks aren't supporting the things we need. Looser regulations and lower taxes won't change that.

"Many people vote all their lives without electing anyone."

Great to see this in the Islington Tribune!

I'm told some Labour MPs are unhappy with this latest act of hostility towards trans people being blamed on Streeting. That feels silly or naïve. It's happening because Wesley kept in place in the NHS, indeed encouraged, the ideologues that Kemi Badenoch *told us* she introduced to key positions.

Is AI pop star Sienna Rose really a singer? And is she really Black? By Kadish Morris. Pictured: AI creation Sienna Rose, in black and white

AI pop star Sienna Rose – the artificial ‘African American’ soul sensation who started off as a white redhead – is taking music born of authenticity and community and reducing it to code

And she’s not the only one, writes Kadish Morris

www.thenerve.news/p/kadish-mor...

The Proceeds of Crime. Surely not? Multi-billion-pound 'highly regulated' utilities with highly paid CEOs, making money by systematically breaking the law? You might quite reasonably be thinking, no , you must be wrong! 'Ok, this is why we are not.Illegal pollution is highly profitable and regulation keeps it so.Here is the short version.Explainer.Privatised water companies in England and Wales obtain, treat, and distribute drinking water and collect and treat sewage before releasing it to the environment as required

💩Great explainer here from Windrush Wasp about how multi-billion-pound 'highly regulated' utilities with highly paid CEOs are making money by systematically breaking the law.

We need to flush these crooks out of our water system. We need public ownership.

From National Pride to National Emergency.

Staff are just as dedicated and skilled, but the system is failing them and you. A corridor is not a ward; a trolley is not a bed.

We’re calling on the Health Department to stop the decline.

Send our letter: bit.ly/end-corridor...

Six years on, children living with #LongCovid are still fighting to be recognised.

Today we stand with #children and #youngpeople around the world living with Long Covid.
This movement began with #families.
With children.

Ofcom is broken. Fix it now! I just signed this open letter calling on the Government to do whatever it takes to fix it, in case you want to sign too?

Nearly 20,000 people have backed this call from 38 Degrees for the government to urgently fix Ofcom, Britain's broken media regulator 🔥🔥🔥

Add your voice here: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Ofcom-is...

Private Eye | University of Oxford : Examination failure IN A somewhat bewildering pairing, former foreign secretary William Hague teamed up with actress Angelina Jolie in 2012 to launch the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, which is still ...

Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back

For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine.

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However, when confronted with sexual misconduct closer to home – on his watch as chancellor of Oxford University – he has remained strangely silent.

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sometimes i think about how i thought Labour winning in 2024 would be a positive development for trans people and have a little hollow laugh to myself