Some fine gallows humour from Naila Kabeer. ‘Clearly the Taliban have not caught up with the feminist critique of ‘manels’.’ Anyone care to add the David Hasselhof meme?
How did Covid-19 affect women’s autonomy & access to healthcare in Pakistan?
From 2020 to 2021, as a car crash. Ht Josh Warburton
This is Nuts. ‘Europe receiving 10M COVID-19 vaccine doses produced in South Africa.’
You may have missed this bit of good news (in terms of process) amid all the doom scrolling. Zambia election: Opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema declared winner by electoral commission. Not even close – 2.8m votes v 1.8m. An orderly transition, and a possible $5m windfall from Mo Ibrahim may ease the pain for the departing President Lungu (look forward to the attribution discussion on that one)
Share of population behind bars (rank) ht Conrad Hackett
#1 US
2 El Salvador
3 Turkmenistan
4 Rwanda
5 Cuba
19 Brazil
23 Turkey
26 Russia
66 Saudi Arabia
87 Mexico
92 New Zealand
141 Canada
189 Norway (why is it always Norway?)
A new initiative on climate change and humanitarian crisis, was launched last week. ‘Climate change will lead to more, larger, humanitarian crises. It may also lead to new types of crisis, for which the global response system is not prepared.’
Explanatory vid here
Perhaps Norweigian prisons do not actually have bars:-)
Hi Duncan, did you do due diligence before your plug for ‘The CHC Initiative’ (on the website) and ‘Prepare’ (on the video you generously describe as ‘explanatory’)? The website has no information on background, aims, related organizations and it ends: “© 2018 Your Company.” The initiative may be the start of something valuable, but needs to prepare a bit more information before it appeals for our support and participation.
Fair question John, but Paul Knox Clarke, who has featured before on the blog, and who I know as a reliable analyst on all things humanitarian, is in charge, so unless I’ve made a horrible mistake, I think it’s all good.