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Junta chief says he’s not ready to implement road map reached at during Jakarta summit.

New pilot program was made in partnership with human rights organization Coalition of Immokalee Workers Brian Welk | May 25, 2021 @ 9:00 AM PWS Anita Hill’s Hollywood Commission has been working tirelessly to protect workers from issues of misconduct at major studios and companies across the entertainment industry, but their latest effort turns attention to the independent production companies where resources are slim and oversight is harder to control. The Hollywood Commission, which is ch...

Hollywood Commission Developing Program to Prevent and Investigate Sex Abuse at Production Companies Vince Bucci/Getty Images 25 May 2021 The Hollywood Commission, headed by Anita Hill, is teaming up with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to institute a program to investigate sex abuse allegations and set up a system to help small production companies deal with misconduct allegations and prevent further cases. “Independent production companies face a number of unique challenges,” the commi...

Indonesian Presidental Palace handout via Reuters ASEAN’s failure to take any follow-up action on Myanmar, a full month after the regional bloc unveiled a diplomatic roadmap to address the military coup there, is eating up precious time and costing lives, rights groups and analysts said. Meanwhile, the Burmese junta chief told a Chinese television channel that he was not ready to implement the so-called Five-Point Consensus reached at a special ASEAN leaders’ summit, which he ...

Give Madagascar the Vaccine it Needs: Food | Opinion On 5/21/21 at 1:00 PM EDT While we race to vaccinate people against the deadly coronavirus, in Madagascar whats needed most to save lives is food. According to the United Nations, famine is threatening the island nation off the coast of east Africa. One of the worst droughts ever has devastated food production in southern Madagascar. People are starving to death. Families are so desperate for food they are "eating locusts, ra...

This year’s grant making focus for the Wayne County Community Foundation’s GIVE 365 program was "Supporting Wayne County, Ohio, Vulnerable Youth," with a primary focus on addressing childhood hunger and/or educational disparities resulting from a range of socio-economic factors.

U.S. airlifts relief supplies to help the people of Palau affected by Typhoon Surigae Format press@usaid.gov The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is airlifting plastic sheeting for shelter needs, kitchen sets, and other relief supplies --- to save lives and meet the urgent needs of the Palau people in response to Typhoon Surigae. Arriving in Palau from USAIDs warehouse in Miami, this airlift will support emergency response efforts for more than 3,000...

Catholic Charities to offer free lunch for kids during the summer Catholic Charities is partnering with the USDA Summer Food Program once again this year. Posted: May 18, 2021 6:21 PM Updated: May 19, 2021 7:43 AM Posted By: Chris Essex TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Catholic Charities is partnering with the USDA Summer Food Program once again this year. Starting June 1, kids can go to the Ryves Youth Center in Terre Haute to have lunch and dinner. Jennifer Buell is the Assistant Agency Director f...

Japan believes such punitive measures may drive Myanmar closer to China, a strategic competitor to the United States and its allies in the Indo-Pacific.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche Helga Zepp-LaRouche is the Founder and Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute. She delivered this keynote address to Panel 1, “The March of Folly: Can Mankind Still Extinguish the Now-Lit Fuse of Thermonuclear War?” of the Schiller Institute’s May 8, 2021 conference, “The Moral Collapse of the Trans-Atlantic World Cries Out for a New Paradigm.” I greet all of you, wherever you may be around the world. I’m telling you that we are conducting this Schiller Institute c...