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When the UK’s foreign aid contribution was reduced in 2019 from 0.7% to 0.5% of gross national income, announced as a ‘temporary’ measure, experts warned of the devastating consequences of reduced spending on critical projects in vulnerable countries.
Since the UN adopted resolution 68/191 in 2013, calling for nations to take action against gender-related killing of women and girls, many high-income countries have introduced femicide laws. Above: A poignant protest against femicide in Madrid in 2015
The idea of the pure and innocent child whom adults needed to protect and nurture had emerged in the work of Romantic thinkers and poets of the late eighteenth century. It reached new heights during the Victorian era when childhood was idealized and sentimentalized—but also scrutinized—to a degree not seen before.
Across Alabama’s 18 Black Belt counties, all of the remaining segregation academies ProPublica identified — about a dozen — are still vastly white, even though the region’s population is majority Black. And in the towns where these schools operate, they often persist as a dividing force. Above: Wilcox Academy in Camden, Alabama
Jacqueline Mondros, DSW is Dean and Professor Emeritus at the Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare and Interim Executive Director of Social Workers for Justi
A shift in seating – and resources – for embedded crisis teams is having a profound impact on all.
