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“With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe” [This sub-title is taken from the WHO Covax report: “Working for global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.” Covax offers: Doses for at least 20% of countries’ populations; Diverse…
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The pandemic is out of control because we’re not protecting ourselves and each other! We can do this better!!
Far too many people in the UK are not taking the two most important precautions to protect themselves and each other from Covid-19 when they are not at home: * always wearing a mask & * always staying away from…
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There is not just one “Jewish community”: a response to misplaced efforts to shut down political debate and discussion in the Labour Party
by Marge Berer [This blog was revised on 23, 26 and 31 December 2020 and 3 January 2021 to clarify some points that were criticised by readers and add links to relevant new information.] The amendment to the tabled resolution…
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31st Special Session of the UN General Assembly in response to the Covid-19 pandemic (3-4 December 2020, 14 December 2020)
Report and comments, by Marge Berer, 16 December 2020 All sessions are available on: http://webtv.un.org/ This Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was originally scheduled as a two-day event on 3-4 December 2020. On both days, it began…
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Three new papers on FGM worth reading
Re-thinking the Zero Tolerance Approach to FGM/C: the debate around female genital cosmetic surgery, by Janice Boddy, Current Sexual Health Reports, 21 November 2020 The main point of this paper is that there is a growing phenomenon of young women having…
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Telemedicine and self-managed abortion: a discussion paper
This paper was rejected by five journals in the space of a week. It was published in the newsletter of the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion on 26 August 2020. Introduction Telemedicine for abortion care is the…
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IN MEMORIAM: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020): Fire and steel on the US Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court and is known as the legal architect of the modern women’s movement. She, more than any other person, pointed out that many laws encouraged…
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Why defending Julian Assange remains absolutely the right thing to do
7 September 2020 — This commentary was submitted in early July to the London Review of Books in response to its many comments about Julian Assange over the years. They rejected it. I am sharing it now as the UK…
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Dear Keir Starmer,
RE: Covid-19, Kashmir, Antisemitism, Rebecca Long-Bailey 28 June 2020 I have spent a lot of my time in lockdown writing letters of protest. Yesterday, I sent an email to Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and Jeremy Hunt about the Tory’s 300-strong…
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Shame on Boris Johnson and his government
To: ‘boris.johnson.mp@parliament.uk’; ‘huntj@parliament.uk’; ‘matt.hancock.mp@parliament.uk’ Cc: ‘nickie.aiken.mp@parliament.uk’ Subject: Three hundred Tory MPs vote to deny NHS workers Covid-19 tests Dear Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Matt Hancock, Shame on the entire Tory party. Shame on all of you who voted down needed…
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