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A report setting out Blackpool Council’s position at the end of the 2023/24 financial year shows children’s services overspent once more, largely due to a rise in the cost of residential placements of nearly 8%. Overall the council overspent by about £8m on delivering services, but better financial performances in other areas mean it was able to stay within the £172m set out in last year’s budget.
One particularly harmful manifestation of this is the glorification of war criminals and perpetrators of violence as embodiments of ‘real men’. A real man is perceived as tough, emotionless, often prone to violence, mirroring these wartime idols. Such men often view women solely as childbearing machines and seek ways to humiliate them to demonstrate their dominance. This is evident in a new trend of Balkan Telegram groups with highly degrading names. Above: ‘Real men’: a scene in a traditional kafana in Ruma, Serbia
CCHR International praised a New Zealand inquiry’s report revealing decades of appalling abuses in psychiatric, behavioral, and disability institutions. Released on July 24 by the Royal Commission, the highest-level inquiry in New Zealand, the findings culminate a six-year, $101 million investigation that uncovered a Kafkaesque nightmare of individuals being tortured under the guise of mental health care.
Charles Johnson and his wife, Ann, collected more than $38 million in tax deductions as a result of donating their estate.
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So how does it happen? Fraudulent or coercive debt is established when the victim’s identity is stolen by their traffickers, or they are forced to open a credit card in their own name and pay for items or services that support their trafficking such as cellphones, hotel rooms and transportation. This fraud stays with the survivor long after they’ve escaped, overburdening them and often taking them by surprise. Survivors cannot get credit, a job, or safe housing, thereby drastically impeding their recovery.