After an Albemarle judge overturned from the bench a challenge to the General Assembly’s last-minute change to a program that granted early release to state inmates with good conduct records, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia said it plans to appeal the decision. in the state Supreme Court.
“You have to apply the language of the law as it is written,” said Geri Greenspan, attorney for the ACLU of Virginia. “We believe the court in this case failed to do so.”
The case, Anderson v. Clarke and Bowles, is one of two the organization is suing the Virginia Department of Corrections for its interpretation of a provision added to the state budget in June reversing certain sentencing reforms.
In 2020, Democratic-backed legislation allowed Virginia inmates to earn more credit for good behavior or rehabilitation efforts that could reduce their sentences. Whereas previously all inmates could earn up to 4.5 days of “good time” credit for every 30 days served, the new law allowed some to earn up to 15 days for every 30.
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]]>Brisbane breakfast host Robin Bailey worked in commercial radio for over 35 years, and for much of that time she found herself the only woman in the room.
In those three-plus decades, Robin has never worked with an all-female management team.
So far.
Today the KIIS 97.3 management team based in Brisbane features a powerful group of eight women, making up an all-female group.
RNA gave priority to equal opportunities between men and women. In the case of KIIS Brisbane, “the right people were hired for the right roles, and it became a group of talented women”, says Content Director Ali Longhurst.
radio today asked Robin, Ali and RNA Sales Manager Emily Buckby their thoughts on why it matters.
Specifically in the case of KIIS 97.3, what are the benefits of having an all-female leadership team?
ALI: At KIIS 973 – the demographic we are targeting is 25-59 women, so decisions about the direction of the station can be made by those who live the lifestyle of the audience we are targeting. It wasn’t planned or pre-designed to be all-female – the right people just happened to be a bunch of talented women.
We operate as efficiently as other Market Leadership teams across the country. With our brand being demographically skewed 60/40 female/male, it’s been a fantastic way to get a group of people to make decisions about what’s best for staff, audiences and customers – looking through the demo eyes.
EMILIA: There is something very inspiring about having an all-female leadership team. Having a female management team perhaps brings a slightly different perspective and approach to the business. Currently, I believe we have a very talented and experienced management team at KIIS 97.3.
Robin: This is the first time in my career that I have worked with an all-female management team. I think it’s so fitting that it’s at KIIS 97.3 as we speak to women aged 25-54 and the people who love them.
Why is it important to have a greater representation of female leaders within the radio industry?
ALI: The media has traditionally been a heavily male management structure. It has long been the norm to see a full team of men in the decision-making hot seat. It is important for the team and the industry to see female leaders in all facets of radio.
EMILIA: Traditionally, the radio industry has been largely dominated by men, so it’s important to have more female leaders in the industry to help evolve and move the industry forward. I believe that if you work hard and have talent you should get ahead regardless of your gender – my feeling is that this is not necessarily the case for women in all cases, but this situation is changing and that many organizations (including ARN) are sincerely trying to remedy this problem.
Robin: There are a lot of men in this industry. For years, I was often the only woman in the room. This has slowly changed over the past 5 years, but for young women looking to get into radio, you can’t be what you can’t see. Now, when women apply for jobs at our station, you’ll meet a female leader, which is inspiring and fitting.
What message do you think this sends to young women considering a career in media?
ALI: For young women moving up the ranks, they are now represented and can see a future in the industry where they may not have had before. Seeing every department in the company sends a fantastic message to the industry: at ARN, you are equal, and if you work well, you can advance your career.
EMILIA: Strong female leadership within an organization sends a very clear message to any talented and qualified woman that the organization is definitely a place where she would be evaluated on performance, not gender, and that a female perspective was not only valued but was in a position of power to make decisions and influence change – in short, a good place for a woman to start or continue her career!
Robin: There is no job at a radio station that you can’t do and there are already successful women in those jobs who can mentor and help you.
What do you think of “gender quotas” in the workplace? Should employees be selected based on their gender or simply because they are the right person for the job?
ALI: I think it should be the right person for the job every time – However, questions need to be asked “why” if a company finds its workforce and the direction is mostly one way or the other. Does upward progression seem unachievable for a particular gender – and if the answer is yes, then there is a big cultural problem that needs to be addressed.
EMILIA: I believe that everyone, regardless of gender, religion or race, should have the same opportunities. I believe we should be judged on our abilities and strengths above all else. Unfortunately, especially for women, this is not always the case, which is why we end up talking about “gender quotas”. Personally, I don’t like gender quotas. I understand the reasoning because it forces change in circumstances where that change might not happen organically or happen too slowly.
My view on the proportional representation of women in leadership groups is that over time common sense will prevail. Women make up half the community and any company that doesn’t have a leadership group that incorporates the perspectives, attitudes and ideas of a team that reflects the community it engages with is bound to be at a disadvantage – I think let the good companies at least wake up to this fact. “Gender quotas” in my view carry an automatic stigma, i.e. “you only got the job because of a quota, not because you’re particularly good or talented or the best candidate for the position”.
Robin: Gender quotas are a little awkward because it means that the only way to see true equality in a workplace is to make people employ a certain gender.
What I hope for the future is that it doesn’t exist because it’s not mandatory and people are genuinely employed based on their skills. Gender, race, and religion should have nothing to do with it, but while we’re still wrestling with this concept — especially in some industries — the idea of gender quotas is at least sparking conversations.
]]>Countless women are involved in protecting and promoting democracy around the world, but their work is often invisible. How many city programs (or even entire cities themselves) have been designed largely by uncelebrated women? The 2022 FRAC Biennale in the Centre-Val de Loire Region aims to highlight these hidden contributions to modern society with an exhibition presenting the work of 55 women. Entitled Infinite freedom, a world for feminist democracythe exhibition features pieces by artists, architects and politicians.
The pieces are designed to be experienced in conversation with the city of Vierzon, where they each present a conversation with its past, present, people and dreams for the future. Integrated into everyday landscapes, the exhibition is divided into four themes: “The utopia of territories”, “The third feminism”, “Subversive tenderness” and “The world built by women”. The latter is a parallel exhibition bringing together three French collections (Centre Pompidou, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, and FRAC Centre-Val de Loire) exploring works by women architects.
The Biennial’s website explains:The concept of “feminist democracy” that we borrow from the author Marie-Cécile Naves raises several questions that are at the heart of the Biennale: what city and urban planning programs are designed by and for women? How can their productions emerge from their invisibility? What interpretation of art history can be seen through the prism of feminisms?
“Entitled Infinite freedom, a world for a feminist democracy and dedicated to the exclusive invitation of around fifty women artists and architects, the 2022 Biennale of the FRAC Centre-Val de Loire aims above all to be a festival turned towards a new imaginary based on equality, where various social readings coexist, activists and artists. , with a view to inculcating a new type of common sense.
L’Utopia des Territoires is made up of works highlighting new dynamics of participatory democracy, such as women’s marches, set up in highly visible urban places in Vierzon. “While the geography of gender has shown that urban space is a gendered territory where women have always maintained complex relationships with the city, this Biennale is intended to be a place of symbolic appropriation”, explain the organizers.
Third Feminism explores ways in which feminism can maintain its diversity and legacy of participation in political, social, and anti-colonial struggles as interpreted through art. The organizers add “If this Biennial wants to go beyond its singular relationship to the history of art and use the concept of feminist democracy to update the interpretation of the discipline, it must therefore question the new practices of equitable citizenship, the role of women in the creation of cities and territories, while taking into account the specific history of the Vierzonnaises.
Subversive Tenderness focuses on “the contemporary alternative to the modernist avant-garde”, defining tenderness as the junction between nature and culture. To subvert this is to reverse it with an exhibition that “sometimes makes us visit beings we refuse to look at. At other times, it reminds us of our recurring temptations to contain freedoms, or to twist bodies to hurt them. Especially those of women.
The 2022 FRAC Biennale is visible until January 1, 2023 and a public works plan is available on the FRAC Centre-Val de Loire website.
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]]>On November 12, the union at the Mercedes-Benz (Daimler) factory in São Bernardo do Campo (SMABC) in the ABC industrial region succeeded in approving a program of layoffs and outsourcing. The cuts have been in the works since early September when the company announced its target of 3,600 layoffs and the outsourcing of several areas of the factory.
Throughout this period, the union has worked alongside Mercedes to push through the cuts, suppressing workers’ struggles while claiming to negotiate in their interests with the bosses. In recent weeks, after returning from a visit to the company’s headquarters in Germany, union officials have touted the layoffs as the only alternative to the company closing the plant.
Holding workers hostage to what the company says is “possible,” SMABC fraudulently touted a Voluntary Layoff Plan (VDP) as a “victory” and promoted approval of the cuts as “the deal that secures the future of the São Bernardo plant. ”
After rallying workers outside SMABC headquarters on November 12, the union’s executive director, Aroaldo da Silva, said he convinced Mercedes management to extend the cuts to the entire plant to “reduce the ‘impact’ of outsourcing. Silva cynically said, “We didn’t want to happen what we’ve seen in the last period: very sad times for autoworkers, for our region, like the closure of Ford, Toyota and so many other companies in the industry. And guaranteeing the future of the factory meant discussing this restructuring plan that the company was proposing.
Moisés Selérges, president of SMABC, also tried to sell the layoff program to workers. He said in an interview with Rede TVT, “In the negotiation process, we reduced the impact of outsourcing. That is to say that the company dreamed of outsourcing the entire logistics sector and we guaranteed at the negotiating table that part of the logistics would remain with Mercedes.
Two months ago, union bureaucrats ended a strike against cuts at Mercedes after three days, assuring workers that the union “will not accept redundancies”. They lied to the workers. When, on the same occasion, Selérges declared that “in a process of negotiation, not everything the union wants will prevail, but also everything the company wants will not prevail”, he was already determined to impose the layoffs .
Far from being an exception, the role of the union at Mercedes in suppressing workers’ struggle is the same throughout the industry and in other sectors as well.
In April this year, maneuvers by the same SMABC derailed a three-day strike by 600 Toyota workers in São Bernardo against the closure of their plant. On April 11, after the regional labor court in the state of São Paulo created a “negotiating table to sound out the viability of the remaining factory in the city”, the union presented the court’s decision as a ” victory” and called for a return to work. The crackdown on the workers’ strike enabled Toyota to complete the plant closure in June.
As part of the global restructuring of the automotive industry and the race to produce electric and autonomous vehicles, several factories have been closed and thousands of jobs destroyed. In 2021, Ford closed all of its manufacturing operations in Brazil. The cuts were imposed after companies raked in large profits while workers were forced to stay in shuttered factories tainted by successive outbreaks of COVID-19.
Far from protecting jobs and “mitigating the impact”, the subordination of workers to corporate interests by unions and the “mediation” of the courts have only prevented an organized response and allowed companies to implement cuts and closures.
Today, in the midst of the turn towards world war, with the escalation of the conflict of the imperialist governments of the United States and Europe against Russia and China, the main Brazilian trade union federations are preparing to suppress any opposition to the new government of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT), which will be completely subordinated to the interests of large transnational corporations.
During the PT’s presidential campaign this year, as Lula announced he would bring “political stability” and attract foreign investment to the country, the CUT and Força Sindical presented the corporatist “Industry 10+” plan to the new government. . One of its central proposals is the creation of “multiparty” commissions, made up of trade unions, businessmen and government authorities.
An important reference to the current union proposal is the policy of the “sectoral chambers” created by the Brazilian bourgeoisie in the late 1980s and early 1990s as new corporatist bodies to control the immense economic crisis and, above all , the response of the working class.
Establishing collaboration between the state, companies and unions to define sectoral policies, the sectoral chambers served to divide the working class, to allow large-scale privatizations and to prevent a resumption of the massive wave of strikes from the beginning. of the 1980s which had fatally wounded the military regime. The PT supported this as a crucial policy for the stability of Brazilian capitalism, with then-representative Aloizio Mercadante (now technical coordinator of Lula’s transition of government) presenting the amendment that included unions in sectoral chambers in 1991.
As in the past, the current proposal for “multiparty” commissions would also serve to control all industrial labor movements and suppress the strikes and protests that emerge as the Brazilian and international working class faces the immense increase cost of living and years of pay cuts.
Workers should not accept union-imposed layoffs at Mercedes as a fait accompli. Workers were prevented from mounting a struggle against these attacks because the union deliberately sabotaged their organizing efforts and lied about their goals.
Workers at Mercedes and other companies must organize themselves into rank-and-file committees to carry out a real struggle against the cuts imposed by the unions, break the isolation imposed by these organizations and form an alliance with the workers of the ABC industrial region. . , the country and internationally.
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ZP Chairman Alimineti Sandeep Reddy urged officials to work with dedication to reap the benefits of social protection schemes
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Yadadri-Bhongir: Zilla Parishad Chairman Alimineti Sandeep Reddy on Tuesday urged officials to work with dedication to bring the benefits of state government welfare schemes to ordinary people.
Chairing the general assembly of zilla parishad here, Sandeep Reddy said officials have a key role to play in ensuring that the fruits of social protection programs and development programs reach the people.
The state government has put in place several social welfare programs to benefit all sections of the population. He ordered officials not to show any negligence in implementing social welfare programs.
MP for Thungathurthy Gadari Kishore said officials should conduct special programs to educate farmers about oil cultivation. He recalled that it had been decided to extend the subsidy to farmers for the cultivation of farm oil in 5,900 acres in the district.
District Collector Pamela Satpathy and officials from different departments also attended the meeting.
]]>Lawmakers are calling for more resources from the New York State Office of Court Management to bolster the system for an influx of cases as the one-year lookback window opens this week for adult survivors of sexual assault.
Beginning Thursday or Thanksgiving Day, adult survivors of sexual abuse can file civil suits against their abusers, whether or not the statute of limitations has expired, under the Adult Survivors Act for past abuse that occurred. after the age of 18.
“It takes time to process trauma of this nature,” said the sponsor, Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan. “We should all thank these brave survivors for coming forward and really changing the dynamic around these conversations about sexual abuse.”
Earlier this year, Governor Kathy Hochul signed Hoylman’s bill, which is modeled after the Child Victims Act.
This Thursday, adult survivors of sexual abuse can file civil lawsuits against their abusers, whether or not the statute of limitations has expired. They will have this chance for one year, or until the lookback window closes on November 23, 2023.
At least 755 formerly incarcerated women are ready to press charges, preparing to file as soon as the window opens this week and lead an effort against the culture of sexual abuse suffered in New York’s jails and prisons.
“To regain your power, your voice and that sense of self worth, self worth, you have to stand up for yourself, right?” asked Donna Hylton, a former inmate from New York. “It is not easy.”
Hylton was incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York’s largest women’s prison, for murder and kidnapping for 27 years. She is CEO of A Little Piece of Light, an organization that helps women affected by the criminal justice system.
She is weighing her legal options for filing a complaint under the Adult Survivors Act and recounted some of her traumatic experiences behind bars on Monday.
“Three months after I arrived there, I was also approached by the captain,” Hylton said. “And so it basically started from the door.”
Hylton is not among the 755 women ready to press charges this week. She expects this to be the start of thousands more who will come forward, but have suffered in silence.
The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision does not comment on pending or potential litigation.
“DOCCS has zero tolerance for sexual abuse, sexual harassment and unauthorized relationships,” according to a statement from the department Monday. “The department thoroughly investigates all reports of sexual victimization, including unauthorized relationships, and retaliation against anyone who reports incidents or cooperates in such investigations. Staff have an affirmative duty to report any knowledge, suspicion or information regarding an incident of sexual abuse or sexual harassment and any unauthorized relationships Individuals who violate department rules are disciplined by the department and when there is evidence that a crime has been committed, DOCCS refers such cases to criminal prosecution to the fullest extent permitted by law.
DOCCS officials are working to upgrade body-worn cameras for correctional officers and significantly expand the deployment of such devices, according to the department.
The department updated its sexual victimization prevention and response policies earlier this year to improve post-incident review procedures for sexual abuse and “unauthorized relationships” cases, among other improvements, according to the DOCCS.
Most staff at the DOCCS facility have completed a sexual victimization prevention and response refresher course on how to discontinue behavior that has led to sexual victimization in the past six months , with the aim of training the remaining staff by the end of the year.
Hoylman sponsored the Adult Survivors Act to allow survivors to seek justice with a civil lawsuit against their individual abuser or a related entity where the abuse took place.
“If the state is involved in these matters, so be it,” the senator said of the potential consequences for the state. “It’s a reckoning that needs to happen at all levels of our society, and that includes our government and would include New York State.”
More than 10,000 survivors of child sexual abuse have filed complaints under the Child Victims Act. This look-back window closed last year.
Officials from the state’s Office of Courts Administration will seek priorities for the state budget during negotiations with lawmakers early next year. Hoylman is eager to see what resources, funding and staffing the department needs to meet the additional workload. He says he will fight for more funding in the 2023-24 budget to ensure the success of adult survivors.
“The Legislature will have to provide that funding to make sure these cases run smoothly,” he said.
Hoylman is also co-sponsoring legislation to create a fund to help survivors get legal representation. He is ready to discuss these segregated funds in the state’s next fiscal plan.
The bill exposed such rampant abuses in the modeling and athletic industries, the medical field and others.
“I’m so glad that so many survivors have come forward, been brave, and shared their stories with my colleagues in Albany and really moved this legislation forward,” Hoylman said. “The reason we are here today is that they spoke out, which was not an easy thing to do.”
]]>WASHINGTON (CNS) — Latinos are changing American politics perhaps more than politics are changing Latinos.
To hear speakers at a Nov. 16 online forum in Georgetown, Politics is working to bring Latinos into the fold.
Jens Manuel Krogstad of the Pew Research Center, in his work studying Latin American demographics and politics, noted that Latinos do not identify as strongly with Democratic or Republican parties as other Americans.
“Latino support for both parties has fluctuated over the decades,” Krogstad said at a forum sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life on, “How Latinos do they change politics and how does politics change Latinos?”
Democratic support peaked at 70% under the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, while GOP support reached 40% for George W. Bush and 38% for Donald Trump.
“At the same time, about half of Latinos say they don’t see much difference between parties,” Krogstad said.
“Latinos who are Catholic tend to be more progressive than Latinos who are evangelical and Protestant,” said Religion News Service panelist Alejandra Molina.
“Latinos are not a monolith,” said Olivia Perez-Cubas of the Winning for Women Action Fund, which recruits and financially supports Republican women candidates. “The GOP depends on its ability to build a tent to diversify the party — which we’re not very good at but I think we’re working on — to speak to a diverse group of voters, and Latinos are very important to this equation.
The outcome of the Nov. 8 midterm elections for Latinos is that “the community is consistent – it’s very consistent – in which party will control Congress, in which party will win the presidential election,” said Julián Castro, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, former mayor of San Antonio and himself a 2020 presidential candidate.
Krogstad said American-born Hispanics add 1 million new potential voters to the population each year. He noted that in the 1980s and 1990s “immigration from Mexico was largely the primary driver of Hispanic population growth in the United States,” but said that Hispanic immigration from this country had “slowed to a trickle”.
Hispanics now make up about 14% of the electorate, double the figure in 2000. They also view the Democratic Party more favorably than the Republican Party.
“Latinos have overwhelmingly expressed support for abortion rights, especially after Roe’s cancellation,” Molina said. “There’s been an assumption that Latinos are inherently religious and therefore conservative and anti-abortion, and it’s not as black and white as that.”
Molina, however, acknowledged the appeal of “high-level Latino evangelical pastors” – noting that one of them is the Reverend Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference – “who in the past have spoken in favor of (former President Donald) Trump because they said he was against communism, against socialism.
Castro, who is currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, said the communism card has been played by the GOP, particularly in appeals to Cuban and Venezuelan Americans.
“Traditionally, much of the Democratic Party’s outreach has centered on civil rights and issues such as equality, as well as aspirational issues and issues such as access to better education and health care. health and better jobs, those things that I think really resonate with hard-working Latino families. ,” he added.
Perez-Cubas said: “Republicans were hoping, like, gas, economy, inflation was going to be that key message – and quite frankly it fell flat, and we saw it in every area, not just Latino voters.”
“There is broad recognition by millions of people in the country, whether they are Latinos or (from) different walks of life, that our political system is fundamentally broken,” said Michael Okinczyc-Cruz, executive director of the Coalition for spiritual and public leadership.
He is also an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies and a community organizer in suburban Chicago.
The answers, he suggested, lie less in “how can we engage communities (to vote) but what role ordinary people can play in shaping the forces and factors that come into play in their lives by about schools, the local economy, the environment, opportunities for their children and the future.
The “most urgent and necessary question,” Okinczyc-Cruz said, “is whether we can organize grassroots power in such a way that it is in the collective hands of ordinary people, our great-grandfathers. parents, working class people, young people, and that power can be controlled by people and wielded by people responsibly, strategically and truthfully.
Castro recalled when “my mother was a Chicana activist in the 1970s and they were very frustrated with the system – it’s mostly Mexican Americans (in) Texas and South- Is – and their response was to quit the Democratic Party but not go to the Republican Party.”
“They created a third party” to build power to solve their problems, he said.
“We have to look to ourselves,” Okinczyc-Cruz said. “My mother took me to church four days a week. It drove us crazy, but it’s what helped shape who I am today.
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As the counting of the midterm elections in the United States continues, it is clear that women’s rights activism is reaching more people than ever before. Both online and offline, the poll, seen by some as a de facto referendum on abortion, rallied women to stand up for their rights. But even as the online campaign rallied women, it also rallied anti-feminists and misogynists. And, like feminists, the online pontifications of misogynists can have a direct influence on politics, especially far-right movements.
The Italian elections were recently won by the Brothers of Italy with 26% of the vote. The far-right party drew inspiration from fascist ideologies, which made anti-feminism a central tenet. Although its leader, Giorgia Meloni, is Italy’s first female prime minister, she is often labeled an anti-feminist and has attended conservative Christian events opposing same-sex marriage and abortion. In Spain, the far-right Vox party adopted a similar basic ideology. And Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation speech clearly referenced gender ideology and accused the West of being unable to uphold traditional gender roles.
These beliefs echo the “manosphere,” misogynistic websites that often lurk on the dark web and advocate for men’s rights, originally a 1970s movement against second-wave feminism. For example, the red pill philosophy takes its name from a plot in the movie “Matrix” and claims that women are not really oppressed in society. Involuntary celibates, or incels, blame women for rejecting them and only wanting conventionally attractive sexual partners. And pickups trade dating advice in a way that dehumanizes and demeans women.
What these groups have in common is the belief that the true “victims” of society are straight white males. Many feel they can no longer be assured the role of head of household, and their lives have been ruined by #MeToo, a global movement exposing sexual violence and harassment against women that took off in 2017. Some also reject the feminism to protect the traditional idea of a nuclear family – characterized by a mother, father and children – with the man being the breadwinner and the woman doing the housework and care. Some groups oppose women’s activism as well as LGBTQ+ rights, particularly in response to the legalization of same-sex marriage in North America and Europe between 2012 and 2013. Some of these movements claim that the ideology of gender is a left-wing conspiracy that wants to destroy gender identities. Groups such as the Italian Sentinelle in Piedi (Standing Watchman) and the French Manif Pour Tous (Demo for Everybody) are inspired by conservative Christianity. They tend to use social media due to a distrust of mainstream media and may have unconventional means of protest. Sentinel in Piedi, for example, organizes silent demonstrations where people stand in a square reading a book. While the ideology of these groups may seem less misogynistic than the narratives of the manosphere, what they have in common is a rejection of feminist activism in their effort to “protect” traditional heterosexual families.
Anti-feminist and misogynistic discourse online can have very harmful consequences outside of digital spaces. In 2014, Elliot Rodger, who identified as an Incel, killed six people and injured 14 to “punish” women for rejecting him.
Advocating for women as submissive partners and accepting motherhood at any cost are also forms of symbolic violence with harmful social consequences. For example, unsafe abortions can be deadly and more likely to occur when prohibited or restricted.
While the activism that has followed the growing visibility of #MeToo has made the topic of violence against women increasingly relevant, women’s rights and gender equality don’t always progress in tandem. Several U.S. states banned or restricted abortion in 2022, following the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade who protected the right to abortion in the first trimester. Even with the successes of the midterm elections, not all abortion rights have been restored. Sexual harassment against women online is a growing concern 21% of American women aged 18-29 say they have been sexually harassed online, as well as one in ten women in the European Union. Between a fifth and a quarter of female victims of online abuse have also been threatened with physical violence. To end violence against women, it is crucial to publicly denounce all online groups perpetuating misogynistic and anti-feminist views as hate speech. National governments can prevent them from reverberating offline by mapping them out and making them public with a warning to internet users about their dangers. Since online violence has often been linked and compared to offline violence, there is a need for better policies against online hate speech.
Several platforms, such as Meta, have guidelines to protect users from harassment and can intervene to block messages and groups, but perpetrators of hate speech online rarely face serious consequences, and there there must be better methods of policing at all levels. And despite the backlash from some men, the fight for women’s rights continues. International organizations can empower women through militant campaigns and, more importantly, provide them with safe spaces to speak out against violence.
(This story has not been edited by the Devdiscourse team and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
]]>The government of Uttar Pradesh has stepped up preparations for presenting the annual state budget for 2023-2024 to the state legislature early next year.
The government of Uttar Pradesh has asked different departments to provide by November 30, 2022, the content to be included in the budget speech of Finance Minister Suresh Khanna.
Preparing the state budget could prove a crucial exercise ahead of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for early 2024.
The government had previously asked ministries to consider saving measures when sending their budget proposals (before November 30, 2022).
“The budget speech should mention the commitment of the state government, its priorities, the outline of the development agenda and the public welfare programs as well as the programs to complement them and the details of the new programs. The contents, on a page or two, of all the sections of the different departments must be sent with the approval of the respective Additional Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary and Secretary,” said Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) Prashant Trivedi in a letter dated November 17 sent to everyone. the departments.
Trivedi further stated, “Departments are often expected to send additional information at the last minute when the budget is being finalized. So, please appoint a focal point of at least the rank of Special Secretary in your department for this purpose….. The content signed by you for the budget speech should be forwarded (in triplicate) to the finance department before the November 30.
The state government will have to strike a balance between populist announcements for the Lok Sabha elections and economy measures. He will have nearly a year to implement any announcements that may be made by the Minister of Finance. Broad guidelines have been sent to the ministries asking them for the likely content.
A consultant has submitted a draft roadmap to make the state a trillion-dollar economy in five years. The state government may need to incorporate some of the points in the final roadmap to be developed in the coming weeks to reach the trillion dollar goal.
The state government is also stepping up preparations for the presentation of the first supplementary budget for 2022-23 to the state legislature during its winter session beginning December 5, 2022. The state government is proposing to Seek approval from the state legislature to provide supplementary funding for certain ongoing programs. He can also seek approval to obtain funds for the proposed Global Investors Summit-2023 to be held in Lucknow from February 10-12, 2023.
]]>RELIGION BRIEFS – Charlotte’s Cupboard will host a drive through pantry
Posted at 12:22 a.m. on Saturday, November 19, 2022
Charlotte’s Cupboard will host is 4e Annual Thanksgiving Drive-In Pantry from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Christian Faith Missionary Baptist Church, 1919 Jefferson Drive. Charlotte’s closet is open to everyone.
Port Arthur/Beaumont Alpha and Omega women of faith will worship Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Israel in Christ Temple Church of God in Nome where Reverend White is pastoring.
Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church, 1337 East 5th St., will be offering a Happy Hour Bible study at the 9:30 a.m. Sunday service. The teacher and exhibitor will be Pamela Joyce Anderson. For more information, call 409-548-1360.
Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church, 1337 East 5th St., will host its annual Thanksgiving Day worship service at 10 a.m. Thursday. The guest speaker is Reverend Norris Joseph Nash of First Bright Morning Star Baptist Church in Oak Groves, Louisiana.
The radio show “I will bless them who will bless you” with Rev. Richard Keaton Nash “The Hebrew Warrior” on KSAP 96.9 LPFM begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The special guest will be Lasanda Anosike from Orange. To listen online, go to listen.streamon.fm/thebreeze
Religious announcements must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Thursday to appear in the Saturday publication. Announcements can be emailed to [email protected] or sent to Port Arthur News, 2349 Memorial Blvd. Please provide a contact number for The News in case of questions.
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