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      Argentina: ex-officers convicted of dictatorship-era crimes against trans women

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 19:01

    Eleven found guilty of crimes against humanity after trial that heard testimony on torture, rape and forced disappearances

    A court in Argentina has convicted 11 former military, police, and government officials of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s last dictatorship in a sprawling trial that heard, for the first time, about atrocities suffered by trans women.

    The three-year case focused on the forced disappearances, torture, rapes, and homicides that occurred at or were connected to three clandestine detention and torture centres located in police investigative units on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. They were known as the Banfield pit, the Quilmes pit and “El Infierno” – or “hell” – by the officials who worked there.

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      Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 14:41

    Report claims posts on abortion and contraception have been deleted while misinformation on the feeds of social media users in Africa, Latin America and Asia has not been tackled

    Meta and Google are accused in a new report of obstructing information on abortion and reproductive healthcare across Africa, Latin America and Asia.

    MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes International) and the Center for Countering Digital Hate claim the platforms are restricting local abortion providers from advertising, but failing to tackle misinformation that undermines public access to reproductive healthcare.

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      Recruitment of nurses from global south branded ‘new form of colonialism’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 07:00

    African nurse leaders say poorer nations face severe shortages despite rules intended to stop wealthy countries poaching staff

    The UK and other wealthy countries have been accused of adopting a “new form of colonialism” in recruiting huge numbers of nurses from poorer nations to fill their own staffing gaps.

    International nursing leaders said the trend was leading to worse patient care in developing nations, which were not properly compensated for the loss of experienced healthcare staff.

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      Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 11:00

    In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way. Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again

    • Photographs by Harriet Barber

    Lake Palcacocha is high in the Cordillera Blanca range of the Peruvian Andes, sitting above the city of Huaraz at an altitude of about 4,500 metres. When the lake broke through the extensive moraines, or natural dams, holding it in place on 13 December 1941, it sent nearly 10m cubic metres of water and debris into the narrow valley towards the city, 1,500 metres below.

    The result was one of the most devastating glacial lake outburst floods – or “GLOFs” – ever recorded. The force of the water altered the area’s geography for ever, and killed at least 1,800 people, and possibly as many as 5,000 .

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      ‘Cautious optimism’ as penguins test positive for bird flu but show no symptoms

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 07:00

    Asymptomatic cases may seem reassuring for the penguins, but scientists fear they could act as ‘Trojan horses’ for other species

    Adélie penguins in Antarctica are testing positive for bird flu without showing outward signs of disease, according to researchers who travelled around 13 remote breeding sites on an ice-breaking cruise ship.

    Since bird flu arrived in the region this year , there have been concerns about the virus reaching the Antarctic’s fragile penguin populations. In November last year, researchers warned in a pre-print research paper that if the virus caused mass mortality in these colonies, “it could signal one of the largest ecological disasters of modern times”.

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      Cars before people: how chaotic, polluted Dhaka is failing its elderly citizens

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 05:00

    Pollution, traffic, noise – the busy streets of the Bangladeshi capital prohibit many who are ill or have limited mobility from leaving their homes, posing further risks to their health

    The door of Rehana Khan’s sixth-floor flat is as far as she ventures during the day. On most days, she barely leaves her bed. The city outside is too chaotic and overwhelming for her.

    Khan, 57, moved to Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, a year ago, after her husband died. She lives with her only son and his wife, who were worried about her being alone in a village in the north-eastern district of Sylhet.

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      If a diabetes policy of diet and exercise keeps failing, is it time for a new approach? | Amy McLennan

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 12:00

    On the Pacific island of Nauru the disease has been addressed in the same way for 50 years, but evidence of other factors – from poor air to stress – challenge old assumptions

    Fifty years ago, a diabetes survey in the Republic of Nauru concluded that a third of Nauruans had type 2 diabetes. It was the first time the relatively uncommon disease was found to be widespread in a national population, and it led researchers to raise the alarm about a potential “ global diabetes epidemic ”.

    At the time, there was little other research about population-scale diabetes, so the researchers made some assumptions to explain their data and propose a way forward. First, they said that diabetes in Nauru was probably caused by a genetic predisposition of islander populations to diabetes (a hypothesis later critiqued by its original author, and which remains unsupported by data – archaeological, anthropological or genetic); modernisation of islander lifestyles leading to a high-calorie diet (a theory my colleagues and I have since challenged ); and reduced physical activity, and obesity. Second, they suggested these causes could be best addressed by nutrition and lifestyle education.

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      Threats, fear and surveillance: how China targets students in the UK who criticise regime

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 11:19

    Chinese students tell the Guardian they are scared to return home and worry for their families after being followed and harassed

    The first time Liying* realised she was being watched, she was on her way home from an anti-Beijing protest outside the Chinese embassy in London in 2022. The sky was dark, and Liying – a student in her 20s from China – was walking with a fellow protester, megaphone in hand, when she noticed a stranger lurking behind them.

    The pair quickened their pace but the man, who looked Chinese, kept following. Ten minutes passed; then 20. Eventually, they ran into a nearby hospital and hid for more than half an hour. When they came out, he was gone.

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      The fight to cure South Sudan’s mysterious neurological disorder

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 08:00

    Nodding syndrome is a distressing disease that stunts growth, harms brains and sparks convulsions. Though its cause is still unknown, there is now hope that epilepsy drugs can help afflicted children

    The other children move away, frightened, when the convulsions start. Tabo takes a long, guttural breath before slumping on to the ground unconscious, her entire body shaking. The 17-year-old’s mother, Penina Monyo Gulu Biro, gently holds the girl while the attack lasts.

    A minute or two later, Tabo (pictured above) sits up again, tears rolling down her cheeks. “She cries because she’s sad to be like this,” says Biro.

    An aerial view of the Dombolo River, near Mvolo town, in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state

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