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violetsandshrikes:

Chad: Critical water shortages for Sudanese refugees

MSF teams warn that a greater humanitarian response is urgently needed

Doctors Without Borders - USA

“Adré, Chad, October 19, 2023—Since fighting erupted in Sudan in April, about 430,000 refugees have fled to Chad, and more are expected to arrive in the coming months. Health conditions are precarious for the approximately 200,000 refugees now staying in camps in Adré, eastern Chad, due to a lack of water, food, shelter, and sanitation facilities.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing medical care in Adré and responding to critical water needs, but ongoing water scarcity may have disastrous consequences if other organizations do not similarly respond.

“In the refugee camps at Adré, some 200,000 people are receiving just five to six liters of water daily, well below the recommended emergency standard of 20 liters per day,” said Christophe Chauliac, MSF project coordinator in Adré. “MSF serves as the primary water provider in the camps, distributing around 600,000 liters daily and covering more than 80 percent of the available water supply for refugees. Despite these efforts, this amount is insufficient, especially in scorching weather. An insufficient water supply hinders basic needs such as washing and cooking, forcing people to turn to unsafe sources and increasing the risk of waterborne diseases such as diarrhea and cholera.”

MSF/Doctors without Borders is one place that be donated to.

Muslim Aid has worked in Sudan since 1991.

Islamic Relief has worked in the region for 40 years and also has an emergency appeal.

UNHCR (Through the UN’s refugee agency) also has an emergency appeal going.

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pumpkinsy0:

what’s going on in the congo since there’s also a genocide happening over there as well:

to sum it up, people in the congo are literally being worked as slaves to mine for this material called coltan, which is very valuable as its used for things like phones, laptops, just electronics in general. Congo is the number 1 producer for this material and the places behind this genocide is America, Britain, France, and Israel, wow what an absolute shocker. The worst places probably to ever exist benefit from a genocide. These places are funding Rwanda and Uganda military groups, to go into the Congo and kill MILLIONS of people. This has also been going on for YEARS. Many women have been SA’d and men are forced to work in INHUMAN conditions, resulting in their death and the colonizers are absolutely benefitting from this. 6 MILLION people have been killed and half of them are literally kids. Many of the Congolese people have also been displaced.

Please speak out about and raise your voice

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nando161mando:

ALT

In Melbourne/Naarm this Wednesday …

‘Stop genocide in Gaza now!

Protest Zim Shipping Line

5.30pm, Wednesday 8.11, 78 Webb Dock Drive

Protest to say: Block the boat

No Israeli ships in Port Melbourne

Hosted by Trade Unionists for Palestine’

slackbastard (@slackbastard@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image In Melbourne/Naarm this Wednesday ... 'Stop genocide in Gaza now! Protest Zim Shipping Line 5.30pm, Wednesday 8.11, 78 W

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liberalsarecool:

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elierlick:

This was the entire statement… wow they’re not even hiding it anymore.

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chilewithcarnage:

reupload of this post cause the reblogs got turned off

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monkeychewtoy:

memecucker:

There’s nothing funnier than American Trad Caths revealing that they’re just Presbyterians that think Baroque looks cool

yeah I dunno what these people think the pope’s job is. he’s literally the Bishop Decider. if he decides you’re not a bishop then you’re not. you don’t get a bishop lawyer to go to bishop court to plead your case before a bishop judge on matters of bishop law. there’s just a Bishop Decider with a big hat and he decides if you’re a bishop or not. the whole point of him is he’s the Decider. don’t like it? lots of people don’t, and it’s called protestantism. if you want to stay a member of the Big Hat Decider Religion you’re gonna have to accept when the Decider with the big hat makes a decision.

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mindfulwrath:

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shwetanarayan:

hssanya:

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.

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opencommunion:

damnesdelamer:

opencommunion:

if your support of decolonization (anywhere) is predicated on your view of the colonized people as exceptionally peaceable, equitable, environmentally conscious/“in touch” with nature, or otherwise morally superior by your own personal standards, it’s not support. the only moral high ground colonized people need to justify decolonization is …. not being the colonizer

The Colonizer And The Colonized by Albert Memmi

The Wretched Of The Earth by Frantz Fanon

thank you pdf fairy <3

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wheeloffortune-design:

rabbitrah:

“Le repos du fakir” (2003), Stéphane Argillet and Gilles Paté

learn to recognize and denounce hostile architecture. often it’s disguised as “artistic design”, but they just want to be cruel to homeless people.

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