Tag: COVID-19
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Queerphobic violence in French homes: a preventable and unseen tragedy of the pandemic
Support Politika News on Patreon CN: this article contains detailed discussion of homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, murder and queerphobic violence CN: this article mentions rape and homophobic slurs OPINION Over this past year of lockdowns and restrictions, French LGBTQ+ rights organisation SOS Homophobie reported a rise in the number of queerphobic attacks taking place within the supposed safety […]
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Surviving a pandemic from the margins of society: an interview with Opre Roma Srbija
Support Politika News on Patreon. INTERVIEW As the coronavirus pandemic rolls on, many are looking to vaccination as a pathway to the freedoms they have sacrificed. The Balkan region has been struck particularly hard, with death rates in Sarajevo, for example, exceeding those experienced during the city’s siege of 1992-96. Meanwhile, in Serbia a relatively […]
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Vaccination glitch highlights Warsaw’s negligent handling of the pandemic
OPINION On 1 April, without any apparent warning, thousands of Polish citizens aged 40-59 were invited to book their first COVID-19 vaccine dose. This, despite the fact that many older residents were yet to be vaccinated. Vaccines for the 40-59 age group had initially been expected to start in mid-May. The Chief of the Chancellery […]
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L’Europe de Macron : un rêve qui devient réalité ?
TRIBUNE Emmanuel Macron a depuis longtemps compris que la France a besoin de l’Europe. Le seul moyen d’aboutir à une véritable voix internationale se fera par le biais de la coopération et de l’unité avec les autres pays de l’Union. Ambitieux depuis le début de son mandat, notamment à travers le discours de la Sorbonne, […]
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Sinking beneath the poverty line: Serbia’s forgotten tragedy
REPORT Amid Covid-19’s cruel impact on human health and world economies, there is another crisis that has gone unspoken even though it remains a significant issue in countries like Serbia. People did lose their jobs due to the pandemic. But what is to be said about those who have already been struggling for years? What […]
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The shameful and systematic neglect of Spain’s migrant farm workers
OPINION In the greenhouses of southern Spain, thousands of undocumented migrants toil away in unsafe conditions to cultivate the fresh produce that lines the shelves of European supermarkets. Yet those who work to feed Europe have been forgotten about in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, forced to live and work in saturated and unsanitary […]
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The UK’s child poverty problem didn’t start with COVID-19
OPINION As the economic repercussions of COVID-19 begin to manifest in increased unemployment and redundancies, remember that it was not this virus that planted the seeds of worsening child poverty. Between 1999 and 2010, the UK’s child poverty rates were in decline, but since 2010 almost all progress made in reducing poverty in the previous […]
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July demonstrations in Belgrade: people against the curfew and authorities
REPORT Featured image credit: Zoran Drekalović Thousands of people gathered in the centre of Belgrade, outside the National Assembly building, on July 7th to express their discontent with President Aleksandar Vučić’s announcement of another curfew for the residents of Belgrade due to an increase in coronavirus infections. The power of social media was extremely visible […]
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