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JANELLE DE SOUZA and LAUREL V WILLIAMS It is time men stop men committing acts of violence against women and girls, an alliance of non-governmental organisations demanded on Saturday, joining the national outcry over the murder of 22-year-old Andrea Bharatt. In a joint statement, the Alliance for State Action to end Gender-based Violence says it is not enough to grieve for those who have gone missing, been kidnapped or been killed. But the “whole of society,” especially men, is obligated to act. The organisation, a coalition which includes the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, ...

February 25, 2020 - 11:36am The Wisconsin Assembly passed a resolution calling for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution on February 18  by a 60-38 vote, almost entirely along party lines. The measure, Assembly Joint Resolution (AJR) 77, now heads to the Senate, where its companion, Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 57, has yet to move out of committee. If passed, Wisconsin would become the 16 th state to back right-wing efforts to call for a constitutional convention to propose sweeping amendments to the Constitution to curtail the powers of the federal government. Under Article V of the Consti...

COVID-19 violators face imprisonment as Buhari signs regulations Our Reporters The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 which made the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail spread of COVID-19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the President signed the document on Tuesday. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said the President signed the document in exercise of the po...

The Abia State Governor, Okezie lkpeazu has inaugurated the State Action and Technical Committees on Gender Based Violence, with a charge on them to formulate and execute policies that will ensure total reduction and eradication of gender based violence in the State. Speaking while inaugurating the two Committees at the Government House Umuahia, Governor lkpeazu disclosed that Government having noted with concern the increasing rate of gender based violence in the State, country and world at large, deemed it necessary to constitute the two Committees to ascertain how gender based violence can...

Interference. >> what the russians did was a state action by their security services, by the gru, which was a criminal hack of computers, all done surreptitiously, ordered from the top by kremlin. >> there are incidents where ukrainians weighed in, saying that he might approve of him carving up their country. >> there's a few other incidents that have been cited based on facebook postings and all. hill did say, yes, it would be best if the ukrainians and other countries did not weigh in in this way, you know, but the real fundamental issue is there's no equivalence between the instances of ukr...