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691 - Premier League teams are playing footballers facing abuse claims - BBC News
Premier League clubs have continued to play two footballers, and kept a boss in post, while knowing they are under police investigation for sexual or domestic violence. Alleged victims told the BBC that the Football Association (FA) and Premier League prioritise commercial interests over the safety of women. They describe a culture of fear associated with speaking out. The football bodies say they take sexual misconduct very seriously.
2961 - Puneet Singh Singhal: "New Zealand: Disability rights…" - disabled.social
New Zealand: Disability rights advocate Sir Robert Martin dies He was the first New Zealander with an intellectual disability to be knighted and had served on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities since 2017. #WeAreBillionStrong #RIP #AXSChat #DisabilityRights #Equity #SDGs #Access #Equality #Diversity #Advocacy #Disability #Technology #Poverty https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515695/disability-rights-advocate-sir-robert-martin-dies
3196 - Transgender World: "Planned Parenthood officials i…" - disabled.social
Planned Parenthood officials in Missouri say they will not give Attorney General Andrew Bailey the records of its young transgender patients. #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA https://www.stlpr.org/health-science-environment/2024-05-10/st-louis-planned-parenthood-missouri-attorney-general-andrew-bailey-investigation
3773 - Arnaud Bertrand en X
You should be absolutely terrified by a society where leading publications start arguing that killing children is legal. If anything is a code red alarm, this is it. / X
4458 - Why Disability Activists Argue Against Labels Like ‘Differently Abled’ | The Swaddle
Terms like “special” or “different” are often created by non-disabled, but “well-meaning” people — that doesn’t mean they’re not able-ist. “People use these terms because they see them as accentuating the strengths of people with disabilities. But despite the good intention, these terms are euphemisms that deny recognition of disability as a valued aspect of diversity and identity,” said Carrie Pilarski, a clinical psychologist from the U.S. And no matter how well-intentioned the positive eu...
5464 - alexbhathal
Wow, this: @amona_hassab wrote to @VicGovDHHS 3 MONTHS ago asking for cleaning and resources for the high rises and heard back — nothing. This is looking like a Masterclass in processes of institutional racism: https://t.co/LM10EV1DPp
8205 - Breonna Taylor was murdered on March 13, 2020. 874 days ago. It took THAT long to federally charge the police officers responsible. Brittney Griner was arrested on February 17, 2022. 168 days ago. ...
10344 - Trying to make a black mother a white mother': Fears department's 'endemic racism' behind Aboriginal child removals
Two Indigenous service providers fear widespread racism in the WA Department of Communities, revealed in a leaked report, is behind the high number of Aboriginal children being removed from their families.
10830 - Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century judge and ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his adventures
According to the Rihla (travelogue), Ibn Battuta embarked on his travels from Tangier at the age of 22 with the intention of performing the Hajj (the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca) in 1325. Although he returned to Fez (his adopted home-town) around the end of 1349, he continued to visit various regions, including Granada and Sudan, in subsequent years.
Over the course of his almost 30 years of travel, Ibn Battuta covered an astonishing distance of approximately 73,000 miles (117,000 kilometre...
