Ottawa also cited the lack of legal marriage in Japan for same-sex couples as a reason to certify the couple as refugees, noting the couple was denied the benefits given under the Japanese system to those in opposite-sex marriages.
A helicopter carrying President #EbrahimRaisi of #Iran & his foreign minister crashed on Sunday in the country’s mountainous northwest, acc/to state media, deepening the turmoil that has gripped the nation on both the international & domestic fronts in recent months.
#Raisi, 63, was traveling from Iran’s border w/ Azerbaijan to inaugurate a joint dam project.
…#Raisi oversaw a sweeping & deadly crackdown on domestic #protesters, many of them #women & young people, who took to the streets against the country’s ruling clerics. #Rights groups said hundreds of protesters were killed by Iran’s security forces.
Raisi has been viewed as one of the front-runners to succeed #Khamenei as supreme leader. One of his main rivals for that role is #Khamene’s son.
Despite the crash, some analysts said they did not expect a major change in #Iran’s agenda abroad.
What should Melinda French Gates do now that she’s announced her departure from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? How about fixing the tech industry’s broken “brilliant jerk” culture? Tech Crunch’s Julie Bort elaborates. https://flip.it/SdsCmi #Tech#GatesFoundation#Technology#Women#WomenInStem
"Russia monitors its internet and can identify protesters there. But women banging pots and pans to make noise to protest the war are another matter. The women arrange these, noise against the war, sessions by word of mouth or via encrypted email services like WhatsApp and Telegram. The anti-war noise protests are spreading and more Russian towns and city neighborhoods hear the noise on Saturday afternoons."
@jeffmcneill Please inform the public on how much #whales#science education & how much wild whales experiences you have had. I've coexisted, paddled alongside & rescued whales. I live in area surrounded by whales. I work with #scientists to save whales.
What are your real life experiences with whales? You seem to have ZERO real experiences. Yet, your #HumanEgo prevents you from making apologies to #women who have a lot more science experiences & more science knowledge, than you.
At least eight people, including women and children, have been reported killed and 10 were wounded after Israeli artillery shelling targeted a group of Palestinians filling water containers in the al-Faluja area, west of Jabalia camp, in northern Gaza today.
Pailona Ramirez from Guarani people looks on during rain at Pindo Poty village after it was flooded, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Vovchansk resident Hanna, 74-year-old holds a covered cage with a parrot as she sits inside an evacuation bus to Kharkiv due to Russian military strikes near the frontline town of Vovchansk, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Palestinians ride on a vehicle as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Mother's Day just passed, but let's remember the Indigenous women who couldn't be mothers because of the stеriIizаtion programs led by the US like in the 1940s against Mexicans under California's 1909 Eugenics law or the 1970 law that stеriΙzed at least 25% of Native American women
"Stormy Daniels has reminded us of what a disgusting misogynistic creep Donald Trump is: unable to control his carnal impulses, eager to exploit his power and influence and wealth to procure sex, devoid of shame or guilt or remorse, incapable of fidelity, focused completely on his own sexual satiety, and totally fine about said sexual satiety being generated by violent means."
"A quarter of the way through the 21st century, a predilection towards sexual misconduct and misogyny is practically a BFOQ of a Republican politician. The party of trickle-down economics and tax cuts for gazillionaires has long been the party of plunder. As long as Donald Trump is its leader, it will also be the party of rape."
"The proposed law provides for direct, personal contact to be initiated by a cadre of newly installed, theocratic government employees toward pregnant patients who register their contact information with the site in order to pressure them in their reproductive decisions. … What it reveals, however, is not compassion, but coercion, harassment, and ultimately, control."
Republicans hate Girls and Women - they have already bent the laws to be able to murder us and disappear us. They are now making it legal to humiliate and torture us. There is no love - and there is nothing redeemable - in a man who would be ok with this assault, subjugation, and physical abuse of Girls and Women. Girls and Women aren't vessels to club and claim caveman style. We aren't vessels to impregnate and imprison. We are autonomous beings with fundamental human rights to self determine. And: whether raped or not--> Abortion is healthcare! Ps.Men speak up for us.
🎥 Jessica Valenti she/her, Feminist author & columnist. Subscribe to her newsletter Abortion EveryDay.com
Evangelical MAGA lawyer Michael Farris—who helped lead the effort to overturn #Roe—says that he and his colleagues plan to amend our US Constitution to ban abortion care in all 50 states (from conception until natural death) once they amass enough political power. He promises to take away healthcare from all Women and Girls.
Fake religious MAGA lawyer Michael Farris—who helped lead the effort to overturn #Roe—says that he and his colleagues plan to amend our US Constitution to ban abortion care in all 50 states.