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• Australia: Victorian MP wants Lord’s Prayer scrapped
  7 August, by siawi3

  Christianity (47.9 per cent) is the most common religion in the state, while 32.1 per cent of Victorians have no affiliation. The Reason Party MP will on Wednesday move to replace the prayer with a moment of silence so politicians can pray or reflect on their responsibilities to Victorians.

• Philippines: Resilience and young Moro evacuees at times of pandemic
  9 August, by siawi3

  For young M’ranaos, the pandemic and life in the evacuation centre are a double shock. In addition, they carry intergenerational shocks from their elders sharing memories of violent conflict.

• Nouvelle Zélande : Attaque « terroriste » dans un supermarché, l’assaillant tué, six blessés
  3 septembre, par siawi3

  L’homme est un ressortissant sri-lankais arrivé en Nouvelle-Zélande en 2011, identifié comme proche du groupe Etat islamique

• Australia: Julian Assange supporters write to Scott Morrison over reported CIA plot to kidnap or kill WikiLeaks founder
  19 October, by siawi3

  A group of prominent Australians -21 lawyers, journalists, academics, and activists- have written to the Prime Minister, asking what the government knew about an alleged CIA plot to kill or kidnap WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London. All of them have visited Assange at one time or another. All are concerned they may have been caught up in US intelligence operations. “We wish to know what surveillance or monitoring we have been subjected to by the intelligence agencies of our allies, the United Kingdom and United States,”

• Amnesty International to close its Hong Kong offices
  9 November, by siawi3

  The local ‘section’ office will cease operations on 31 October while the regional office – which is part of Amnesty’s global International Secretariat – is due to close by the end of 2021. Regional operations will be moved to the organization’s other offices in the Asia-Pacific.

• Australia: New files expose Australian govt’s betrayal of Julian Assange and detail his prison torment
  20 November, by siawi3

  The documents obtained by Tranter and provided to The Grayzone provide an unobstructed view of the Australian junior ally’s betrayal of one of its citizens to the imperial power that has hunted him for years. As Julian Assange’s rights were violated at every turn, Canberra appears to have been complicit.

• Victoria ( Australia) is planning to decriminalize sex trade as a solution to its failed 1994 law legalizing prostitution – Now what?
  25 November, by siawi3

  Victoria may be the first jurisdiction in the world that wants to decriminalize the sex trade (a worse form of legalization) after acknowledging that legalization doesn’t work. Reports indicate that the current legislative deliberations related to the total deregulation of the sex trade are occurring within a web of public disinformation and misinformation, lack of transparency, and with indifference to human rights, women’s equality, public health, and the rule of law.

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