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KEY POINTS The image of the oppressed, veiled Muslim woman has long been used to justify ongoing Western colonialism.[1][1] In December 2021, the Letters pages of CMAJ gave voice to a familiar trope: that of the Muslim woman wearing a hijab, or Islamic headscarf, as an “oppressed” figure. Such

KEY POINTS The lethality of anti-Muslim hatred in Canada was highlighted in 2021 when 4 Muslim members of a London, Ontario, family were killed in a devastating act of terrorism on June 6, 2021. This was preceded by the 2017 Québec mosque massacre, in which 6 Muslim worshippers were shot and killed

The article “Spatial analysis and visualization of global data onmulti-resolution hexagonal grids”, written by T. Stough · N. Cressie · E. L. Kang · A. M. Michalak · K. Sahr was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 3, issue 1, pages 107–128 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2022 and the article is forthwit...

(PNA file photo) MANILA - The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) said it will support the passage of bills in the 19th Congress that will improve internet connectivity in the country. In a statement Monday, PCCI said legislations that will push for better internet services include the Open Access in Data Transmission Act, Rural Wired Development Act, Satellite Liberalization Act, and Spectrum Management Act. PCCI has partnered with Better Internet PH to advocate the Philippine In...

A 26-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 1-month history of right knee and metacarpal arthralgia, tenosynovitis and pustules on her hand. She was sexually active, with 1 partner. Her urine gonococcal nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) was positive, and we diagnosed

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) will champion the Philippine Internet Agenda for the new administration stating this is digital to the country’s economic growth. PCCI President George Barcelon said they partnered with Better Internet PH to champion the Open Access in Data Tra

In many instances, popular online publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have their articles hidden behind a paywall. 

PLOS, the African Association of Universities (AAU), and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) publicly launched their collaboration with a webinar for Presidents, Vice Chancellors, Rectors, Deputy Vice Chancellors, Directors of Research, and Directors of Libraries of African Universities.

Western medicine has begun a reckoning with its inconvenient pasts, from dethroning medical heroes to an increasing awareness of how doctors have treated colonized and enslaved populations. A statue of the “father of modern gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, was removed from New York City’s Central

Botswana has lost ground in the campaign to inoculate children against vaccine‐preventable diseases (VPD), following the Covid-19 pandemic - the World Health