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Sangriento atentado frente a una escuela primaria en Kabul

Sangriento atentado frente a una escuela primaria en Kabul

Una explosión ante una escuela de niñas en la capital afgana, Kabul, causó al menos 33 muertos y decenas de heridos, incluidos estudiantes, informó el ministerio de Interior afgano este sábado (08.05.2021).

La Unión Europea (UE) condenó enérgicamente el «horrendo» atentado con bomba que constituye una violación «despreciable» del derecho internacional.

La explosión que según la agencia dpa dejó un saldo provisional de 33 muertos y unos 80 heridos, ocurrió en el distrito de Dasht-e-Barchi, en el oeste de Kabul, cuando los residentes estaban en la calle haciendo compras antes de la fiesta del Aíd al Fitr, la próxima semana, que marca el final del mes sagrado del Ramadán.

El barrio está poblado principalmente por chiitas hazaras y en el pasado ha sido atacado por militantes islámicos sunitas.

El portavoz del ministerio de Salud, Dastagir Nazari, dijo que varias ambulancias fueron despachadas al lugar para evacuar a los heridos. «La gente en la zona está molesta y ha golpeado a varios trabajadores de ambulancias», indicó.

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«Vi cuerpos ensangrentados entre una nube de humo y polvo, cuando heridos gritaban y sufrían», declaró a la AFP Reza, quien escapó a la explosión.

«Vi a una mujer buscar entre los cuerpos mientras llamaba a su hija», agregó. «En ese momento, encontró una bolsa de su hija ensangrentada y se desmayó».

Reza agregó que la mayoría de las víctimas eran adolescentes que acababan de salir de la escuela.

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La gente busca a sus familiares después de que al menos 30 personas, en su mayoría alumnas, hayan muerto en tres explosiones consecutivas dirigidas a una escuela en Kabul, la capital de Afganistán.

UE: «despreciable acto de terrorismo»

La misión europea en Afganistán condenó el atentado.  «El horrendo ataque… es un despreciable acto de terrorismo», señaló la misión por Twitter.

The horrendous attack in Dasht-i Barchi area in Kabul, is an despicable act of terrorism. Targeting primarily students in a girls’ school, makes this an attack on the future of Afghanistan. On young people determined to improve their country. Our thoughts go to all affected.

«Tener como objetivo estudiantes de primaria en una escuela de mujeres, hace de este ataque una agresión contra el futuro de Afganistán. Contra gente joven determinada a mejorar el país».

La misión de asistencia de Naciones Unidas en Afganistán (Unama) expresó su «profundo rechazo» a la explosión.

«EE.UU. condena este bárbaro ataque cerca de una escuela femenina en Kabul, Afganistán. Ofrecemos nuestras condolencias a las víctimas, muchas de ellas menores, y sus familias. Exigimos el fin inmediato de la violencia y de los ataques sin sentido contra civiles inocentes», dijo en un comunicado el portavoz del Departamento de Estado, Ned Price.

«Unicef condena con fuerza el horrible ataque ocurrido hoy cerca de la escuela secundaria Sayed Ul-Shuhada», dijo en un comunicado su directora ejecutiva, Henrietta Fore. «El ataque se ha cobrado las vidas de docenas de escolares, la mayoría niñas, y ha herido de gravedad a muchos más», agregó por parte el organismo de Naciones Unidas.

Dasht-e-Barchi ha sido frecuente objetivo de ataques de militantes islamistas suníes.

Aunque el ataque no fue reivindicado, el presidente afgano Ashraf Ghani acusó a los talibanes y al Estado islámico.

Fuente de la Información: https://www.dw.com/es/sangriento-atentado-frente-a-una-escuela-primaria-en-kabul/a-57473451

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Al-Aqsa mosque: Dozens hurt in Jerusalem clashes

Al-Aqsa mosque: Dozens hurt in Jerusalem clashes

At least 163 Palestinians and six Israeli police officers have been hurt in clashes in Jerusalem, Palestinian medics and Israeli police say.

Most were injured at the Al-Aqsa mosque, where Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades as Palestinians threw stones and bottles.

Tensions have been rising over the potential eviction of Palestinians from land claimed by Jewish settlers.

The Red Crescent has opened a field hospital to treat the wounded.

The Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem’s Old City is one of Islam’s most revered locations, but its location is also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount.

The site is a frequent flashpoint for violence, which unfolded again on Friday night after thousands had gathered there to observe the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Israeli police said they had used force to «restore order» due to the «rioting of thousands of worshippers» after evening prayers.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, said he «held [Israel] responsible for the dangerous developments and sinful attacks».

An Aqsa official called for calm over the mosque’s loudspeakers. «Police must immediately stop firing stun grenades at worshippers, and the youth must calm down and be quiet!», Reuters news agency quoted them as saying.

The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said 88 of the injured Palestinians were taken to hospital after they were hit with rubber-coated metal bullets. Police said some of the six officers injured needed medical treatment.

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Israeli police walk near the Dome of the Rock during clashes with Palestinians, 7 May

The international community also appealed for de-escalation on Friday, as anger mounted over the threatened eviction of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem’s Shaikh Jarrah district.

A US State Department spokeswoman said Washington was «deeply concerned about the heightened tensions». The European Union condemned the violence and said «perpetrators on all sides must be held accountable».

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, urged all parties to «respect the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City in the interest of peace & stability.»
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The UN has said Israel should call off any evictions and employ «maximum restraint in the use of force» against protesters.

The League of Arab States, or Arab League, called on the international community to intervene to prevent any evictions.

Israel’s Supreme Court will hold a hearing on the long-running legal case on Monday.

Tension has been high throughout the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Before the latest violence in the Al-Aqsa compound, there were Palestinian protests over Israeli barricades erected outside Jerusalem’s Old City. There has been nightly unrest over possible Palestinian evictions in nearby Sheikh Jarrah.

Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, two Palestinians were shot dead after firing at an Israeli military base on Friday. Earlier in the week, a Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli religious student and a Palestinian teenager was killed in clashes with Israeli forces searching for him.

The international calls for calm and restraint show recognition of the dangers if this escalation continues.

And there is deep concern about what could happen on Monday.

Israel’s Supreme Court is due to hold a hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case as Israelis mark Jerusalem Day. The annual celebration of the capture of the east of the city during the 1967 Middle East War includes a flag march in the Old City that typically leads to clashes with local Palestinians.

Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of the international community.

Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of a hoped-for independent state.

Fuente de la Información: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57034237

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Estados Unidos: How the Closure of In-School Learning Damaged U.S. Children’s Mental Health During the Pandemic

How the Closure of In-School Learning Damaged U.S. Children’s Mental Health During the Pandemic

Nobody ever believed the pandemic would go easy on children. The virus might target them less directly than it targets older people, but other challenges—the loss of school, the loss of play, the loss of time with friends—would exact their own emotional toll. A study published April 29 in JAMA Network Open sheds light on how serious that harm has been.

The work, led by psychologist Tali Raviv at Northwestern University, involved a survey of more than 32,000 caregivers looking after children from kindergarten to grade 12 in the Chicago public school system. The definition of “caregiver” was broad, including parents and grandparents as well as anyone 18 or older with principal responsibility of caring for children in a household. The sample group of the families was ethnically and racially diverse—39.3% white, 30.2% Latinx; 22.4% Black; and 8.1% mixed.

The pivot point of the research was March 21, 2020: the day that in-person instruction ended in Chicago public schools and home-schooling began. Raviv and her colleagues asked each caregiver to rate the children they were looking after on how they exhibited 12 different traits in the time before the end-of-school date, and in the time after (the surveys themselves were filled out between June 24 and July 15):

The results were striking. On every one of the negative traits the overall scores went up, and on every one of the positive ones, there was a decline. Some were comparatively small shifts: Talking about plans for the future fell from 44.3% to 30.9% (a change of 13.4 percentage points); positive peer relationships declined from 60.4% to 46.8% (a 13.6 percentage-point drop). But in other cases the change was more dramatic. Just 3.6% of kids overall were reported to exhibit signs of being lonely before the schools were shuttered and 31.9% were that way after, a massive shift of 28.3 percentage points. Only 4.2% of children were labeled agitated or angry before the closures, compared to 23.9% after, a jump of 19.7 points.

A small number of the children studied, Raviv says, improved over the before-and-after period. “About 7% actually benefited” from the shift to in-person learning, she says. Self-harm and suicidal ideation, for example, declined from 0.5% to 0.4% among Black children, and from 0.4% to 0.3% among Latinx kids. “Maybe school was a stressful place and remote learning was good for them.”

But that’s not at all the case for most kids and, as with so many things, race, ethnicity and income play a role, though in this case it was Black and Latinx children generally faring better than whites, instead of the other way around.

Overall, the figure for the “loneliness” characteristic was 31.9% post-school closures, but it broke down to 22.9% among Black kids and 17.9% among Latinx, compared to 48.4% among whites. Since all three groups clocked in at just over 3% before in-class learning ended, the resulting increase in loneliness was much higher among whites. On the “hopeful or positive” metric, 36.4% Black kids exhibited the traits, compared to 30.7% in Latinx households and just 24.6% among whites—a decline in all three cases, but a more precipitous one among whites who were down from 55.7%, compared to 40.2% for Latinx kids and 49.8% for Blacks.

The explanation, Raviv suspects, could be that the greater level of privilege whites generally experience left them less prepared to deal with the hardships of the lockdowns when they came around.”It may have been more unusual for white families to have to cut back,” she says. “For some lower-income people it might not have been that much of a change.”

But Black and Latinx families suffered in other ways. Across the board, they were more likely to have a family member who contracted COVID-19; to have lost a job, lost a home, lost health insurance; to have difficulty getting medicine, health care, food, and PPE. Even if the Black and Latinx children’s change in overall mental health as tabulated in the study was less severe than that of white kids’, they experienced hardship all the same. “They were more likely to see these additional stressors,” says Raviv.

Going forward, Raviv and her colleagues write that the pandemic can be something of a teachable moment for educators, clinicians, and policymakers. The research, they say, points to the need for a renewed commitment to better mental health care—especially access to telehealth; improved access to school- and community-based mental health services; improved funding for communities in need; and a better effort to eliminate structural inequality. The pandemic, eventually, will end. The emotional pain kids in every ethnic group have sustained could stay with them for a long time to come.

Fuente de la Información: https://time.com/5964671/school-closing-children-mental-health-pandemic/

 

 

 

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Bahamas: Teachers are fearful amid COVID cases, says BUT president

Teachers are fearful amid COVID cases, says BUT president

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) President Belinda Wilson yesterday urged education officials to shore up health and safety protocols in public schools as positive cases of COVID-19 continue to pop up among the student and staff population.

According to the union, cases have been confirmed at Thelma Gibson Primary, Sadie Curtis Primary, Uriah McPhee Primary, Gambier Primary and Government High School

“As the COVID-19 positive cases rise again, New Providence schools have students and teachers that are testing positive,” Wilson told Eyewitness News.

She continued: “Again, the Bahamas Union of Teachers is urging the Ministry of Education to ensure that safety protocols are being followed.

Wilson expressed concern about protocols within schools surrounding suspected cases.

“Once there is a suspected case(s) the time period is too long before teachers are informed,” she said.

“Teachers are still not being informed in a timely manner about confirmed cases.

The BUT president also expressed concern that teachers, who are frequently tested, must do so at their own expense.

Wilson also said time spent in quarantine has been deducted from normal sick leave, a practice she called unfair.

“Teachers are fearful for their health,” she continued

“A concern now that many students, even some entire grade levels, are in quarantine and teachers are also in quarantine.

“The concern of teacher shortage was expressed in at least one school.

“The Bahamas Union of Teachers will continue to monitor this situation and we are in frequent communication with the shop stewards and union representatives at the various schools.”

As of April 20, Director of Education Marcellus Taylor advised that there had been 15 to 20 suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 in public schools across New Providence.

He assured that there was a stringent protocol to follow with suspected and confirmed cases.

Minister of Education Jeffrey Lloyd has also said he had “no concern at all” that an outbreak could occur at schools open for face-to-face learning.

The majority of schools offer face-to-face and virtual learning on a rotational basis.

Fuente de la Información: https://ewnews.com/teachers-are-fearful-amid-covid-cases-says-but-president

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Viet Nam: Mother and son unjustly convicted in “travesty of justice”

Viet Nam: Mother and son unjustly convicted in “travesty of justice”

Responding to the conviction of prominent land rights activists Trinh Ba Tu and Can Thi Theu, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research, Emerlynne Gil, said:

“This conviction is a travesty of justice. Can Thi Theu and her son, Trinh Ba Tu, are brave human rights defenders who should be protected by the Vietnamese government, not harassed and locked away.

“Can Thi Theu and Trinh Ba Tu should never have been arrested in the first place, let alone convicted of bogus charges. They are clearly being punished in retaliation for their peaceful activism to expose injustices and human rights violations. Sadly, in Viet Nam, the peaceful defence of human rights is enough to face a lengthy prison term.

The authorities in Viet Nam should overturn this unjust conviction without delay and immediately and unconditionally release Can Thi Theu and Trinh Ba Tu. They were convicted solely for peacefully exercising their human rights. The Vietnamese authorities must release all those unjustly imprisoned in Vietnamese jails.”

Background

Trinh Ba Tu and Can Thi Theu were both sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment followed by three years’ probation after being convicted for “making, storing, or spreading information, materials or items for the purpose of opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam” by the People’s Court of Hoa Binh province today.

Can Thi Theu is a well-known land rights activist and human rights defender in Viet Nam. She became an activist after her family’s land was confiscated by the authorities in 2010. She began advocating against forced evictions and became a leading figure of the land rights movement.

In 2014, Can Thi Theu and her husband, Trinh Ba Khiem, were arrested while filming a forced eviction and later were convicted by the People’s Court of Ha Dong district. Can Thi Theu was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment and her husband was given an 18-month sentence. Both were charged under Article 257 of the 1999 Criminal Code for “resisting persons in the performance of their official duties”.

In June 2016, Can Thi Theu was arrested again for leading a peaceful protest at the Central Citizen Committee office to demand justice for people whose land were confiscated. She was tried in September the same year by the People’s Court of Dong Da district and convicted and sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for “resisting persons in the performance of their official duties” under Article 257 of the 1999 Criminal Code.

After the imprisonment of their parents, Trinh Ba Tu and Trinh Ba Phuong also became activists and human rights defenders. They became leading figures of the land rights movement while their parents were in prison. Upon her release from prison, Can Thi Theu continued her land rights activism together with her sons.

In January 2020, police raided the village of Dong Tam in Ha Noi in a clash in which an 84-year-old village leader and three police officers were killed. Authorities also arrested dozens of villagers in relation to the high-profile land dispute between the government and the local community. Can Thi Theu and her two sons, Trinh Ba Tu and Trinh Ba Phuong, played prominent roles in informing the public about the incident through their social media platforms.

On 24 June 2020, police arrested Can Thi Theu, Trinh Ba Phuong and Trinh Ba Tu. The three were charged for “making, storing, or spreading information, materials or items for the purpose of opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code. Trinh Ba Phuong remains in pre-trial detention.

Fuente de la Información: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/05/viet-nam-mother-son-unjustly-convicted/

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Esta dos Unidos: Megan Rondini lawsuit can proceed, state supreme court rules: Former Alabama student died in suicide after alleged rape

Megan Rondini lawsuit can proceed, state supreme court rules: Former Alabama student died in suicide after alleged rape

The lawsuit against a man from a prominent Tuscaloosa family in the death of Megan Rondini, a former college student who killed herself after alleging she was raped, can move forward, according to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling issued Friday.

Rondini was a UA student from Texas when she reported to police she was raped by T.J. Bunn in 2015.

Bunn worked at ST Bunn Construction Company, which is across the street from the Innisfree Pub, where Rondini reportedly became drunk, or was drugged, before being raped for 30 minutes in July of that year.

Rondini’s story became public in a June 2017 BuzzFeed story, as told by her parents, family and friends.

They claimed the 20-year-old was mistreated by Tuscaloosa County investigators, the university and DCH Regional Medical Center. Rondini left Tuscaloosa and took her own life in February 2016.
In an earlier lawsuit filed on behalf of parents Michael and Cynthia Rondini, the documents identified T.J. Bunn, the Tuscaloosa man implicated in the alleged sexual assault of Rodini, as being part of a family that is “well connected and powerful in the Tuscaloosa community, and were major financial supporters of UA.”

Bunn had filed a motion in federal court saying that because Rondini took her own life, that automatically prevented him from being liable in her death.

For example, experts explained, if a person was injured in a car wreck and later committed suicide as a result of that car wreck, Alabama and most other states typically say that the person who caused the wreck is no longer responsible.
In this case, however, the Alabama Supreme Court decided that when it comes to sexual assault, if there’s enough evidence to show the sexual assault happened and the victim then commits suicide, the alleged assailant can still be held liable for the sexual assault.

In the Supreme Court ruling, it says the federal court had concluded that Rondini’s family had produced substantial evidence that Bunn had sexually assault her, said Rondini attorney Leroy Maxwell of Birmingham law firm Maxwell Tillman.

“We all knew that was a fact,’’ Maxwell said Friday. “Bunn made a technical argument, not an innocence argument, he made a technical argument saying since he killed herself, he should no longer be responsible for damages,’’ Maxwell said.

The Supreme Court, however, said if someone hurts someone intentionally and they commit suicide, the assailant can still be held responsible for her wrongful death. “They literally did exactly what we asked the court to do and cited the exact case law from our brief,’’ Maxwell said. “This is a huge day for her family, an emotional, big day for them.”

 

Fuente de la Información: https://www.al.com/news/2021/05/megan-rondini-lawsuit-can-proceed-state-supreme-court-rules-former-alabama-student-died-in-suicide-after-alleged-rape.html

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