Jamie Uhrig
Trying to get closer to truth. The moderator tweets about a few interests, including Health in Myanmar, in their personal capacity.
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U.S., Vietnam sign $500 million deal to form 'Pork Consortium'
The Vietnam Trade Alliance, a grouping of buyers and producers, signed a pact on Wednesday to buy up to $500 million worth of American pork over three years, the U.S. embassy in Hanoi said on Wednesday.
‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election | Frontier Myanmar
Seven years after Buddhist mobs burned down mosques and slaughtered dozens of children at an Islamic school, hundreds of Muslims remain displaced and they say the NLD government has done little to help heal or rebuild since.
Aung San Suu Kyi and old guard frustrate young Myanmar politicians
Once celebrated as democracy champions, a tight elite of elderly former political prisoners at the helm of Myanmar's ruling party now stand accused of oppression, discrimination and censorship.
Redressing the Corporate Cultivation of Consumption: Releasing the Weapons of the Structurally Weak
Corporate control of the global food system has resulted in greater global availability of highly processed, packaged and very palatable unhealthy food and beverages. Environmental harm, including climate change and biodiversity loss, occurs along...
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Studies Showing Waning Coronavirus Antibodies
Experts say it’s normal for levels of antibodies to drop after clearing an infection, and that they represent just one arm of the immune response against a virus.
Conference on Sustaining Support for the Rohingya Refugee Response 22 October 2020
We are grateful to all who have participated in today’s conference, including those who have announced or pledged funding for the international humanitarian response, those who are supporting members of the Rohingya communities in other ways—not...
State Counsellor updates COVID-19 situation amid containment measures | Ministry Of Information
Yesterday, for one or two days, there was something to think about regarding COVID-19 disease for our people. The day before yesterday, the infection level went up. This was something to worry about. Yesterday, the infection level went down a bit....
Decision on Victims’ joint request concerning hearings outside the host State
26 October 2020 | Pre-Trial Chamber III | Decision
HIM | Health in Myanmar » Three Cs in response to Covid19 in prisons
HIV Information for Myanmar
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Jamie Uhrig
Part of a plan to mitigate the impact of #Covid19 in #Myanmar #prisons has been presented by the Minister.
Three Cs: #covidecarceration, #cohorting, & #care, can reduce the harm of the #coronavirus for people imprisoned, staff, & community members.
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Narrative Medicine & The Creative Impulse
Register now for the Narrative Medicine & the Creative Impulse virtual workshop in October, which will provide an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of narrative medicine
City failed to hold Corrections responsible for Rikers Island brutality, monitor's report finds | amNewYork
The culture on Rikers Island has been the epicenter of discussions on reform for years now.
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City failed to hold Corrections responsible for Rikers Island brutality, monitor's report finds | amNewYork
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Poll: Most Back Housing for Homeless People in Their Neighborhoods
It comes while homeless men live at the Lucerne hotel.
Jamie Uhrig
Exclusive Spectrum News/Ipsos Poll: Most New Yorkers Say Homeless People Should Be Housed in Hotels or Shelters in Their Neighborhood
Upper West Side #UWS #racism #nimbyism
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As India drifts into autocracy, nonviolent protest is the most powerful resistance | Amartya Sen
The Hindu nationalist regime has cultivated religious animosity – undermining the nation’s secular traditions, says economist Amartya Sen
The growing generation gap in politics among Vietnamese Americans
Vietnamese Americans traditionally vote Republican. They also tend to be anti-Communist and deeply suspicious of China. Many are part of the first generation that arrived in the US after the trauma of losing their homeland, South Vietnam, to the...
‘We realised we needed a new approach’: Government and law enforcement perspectives on the implementation and future of the drug decriminalisation policy in vietnam.
In 2009, Vietnam officially decriminalised drug use through amendments to the criminal law. The amendments outlined explicitly that illicit drug use w…
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Here is a history of changes in the law in #Vietnam which allow continuing administrative detention of people who use #drugs there. How many people are still held in forced labour camps? #methamphetamine
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Are ‘Kidfluencers’ Making Our Kids Fat?
Popular YouTube channels often bombard young children with thinly veiled ads for junk food, a new study finds.
Report: Use Of Force On The Rise In City Jails, Despite Historically Low Inmate Population
"Although the decrease in the population was extremely positive on the macro-level, it did little to change the conditions of the confinement in the jails—the use of force rate remains unacceptably high," a new report says.
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Jamie Uhrig
“The driving forces of use of force remain the same—overreliance on Probe Teams & alarms, the use of unnecessarily painful escort techniques, unnecessary and too close use of OC [pepper] spray, and hyper-confrontational Staff behaviors" in #NYC #jails.
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