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Feb 22 2021 - Since her husband Abrahm Soreng died two years ago, 70-year-old Veronica Kerketa doesn’t get the chance to talk in her mother tongue at home. None of her children or grandchildren speak the Kharia language. In her village, under Bormachhara tea garden area of Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila, only one other person — her younger sister, 65-year-old Christina Kerketa — speaks Kharia. “Except for the two of us, the nearest person who knows this language, Jaharlal Pandey Ind...

The ongoing pandemic has adversely affected women around the world in a number of ways, including through employment and income loss. The countries within the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) have also suffered from its effects. These countries had made some improvements in terms of women's empowerment over the past

Diverse Paths to Well-being, Resiliency and High-Vulnerability: Interrogating Du Boisian Insights Instrumental to Developmental Science The Carolina Consortium on Human Development is pleased to welcome Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer as the next presenter in our Spring 2021 Series on  Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture, and Intersectional Approaches! Join us Mondays from 2:00 – 3:15 PM (EST) via zoom (https://fpgcdi.zoom.us/j/91078842280). On Monday, February 22nd Dr....

  Introduction This is not new when a man travels across the country because of health issue. Turkey became a destination place for health tourism. The Turkish government also tries to pull up their sleeves for advancement of health tourism in their country. They are bringing new protocols and investment incentive to provide a framework of field. The private sector has their boom in heath tourism industry and making progress day by day. There is a new project named Bilkent in Angara which will...

Structural racism affects individuals and broader communities through processes like redlining and racialized residential segregation, mass incarceration and police violence, and accessibility to medical care. Imagine not being able to get a loan, because of your personhood? These interrelated examples are historically grounded, involve multiple institutions, and rely on racist ideologies and assumptions about people of color by those in positions of power.  Understanding racism as a system, r...

First-year elementary-school students in Taiwan spend up to three hours per day using mobile electronics, and less than five hours per week exercising, a National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) study found. Students spend an average of one hour and 25 minutes per day using smartphones and tablets on weekdays, and three hours and six minutes on weekends and holidays, the university said yesterday. The study also found that in some households where parents did not set limits on the use of electr...

Love Bombing: When Excessive Affection Becomes Manipulative Share Getty To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, hacks and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Lifehacker Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a fix. When it comes to matters of the heart, we often have things confused. I read a quote recently and I think sums up our constant mishandling of one-another’s feelings pretty damn we...

Things to Do at Penn State: Feb. 18-25 Classical musician Anthony McGill posted to Facebook a version of “America the Beautiful” as part of his musical protest in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. McGill will join the fifth episode of “Meeting the Moment with Michael Mwenso” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23. Image: Matthew Septimus Things to Do at Penn State: Feb. 18-25 February 17, 2021 Whats happening at Penn State? Heres a look at some of the cultural events — both in-perso...

Chronic undernutrition in SA children persists – report By Robin-Lee Francke Share CAPE TOWN - The 2020 South African Child Gauge report has revealed that the nutritional status of South Africa’s children is deteriorating. The report is released annually by the Childrens Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to review the status of children in South Africa and inform evidence-based policy and programming. The report focuses attention on and identifies points of leverage to im...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. TILT Holdings Strengthens Compliance Team, Welcoming Nicole Moyers as Vice President of ... TILT Holdings Inc.February 18, 2021 GMT Ms. Moyers served on the Pennsylvania Cannabis Coalition; Mr. Beyea served on the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission PHOENIX, Feb. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --   TILT Holdings Inc. (“TILT or the “Company”) (CSE: TILT) (OTCQX: TLLTF), a provider of business s...