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Migrant worker faces deportation after marrying in Israel
A migrant worker who arrived in Israel legally from the Philippines four years ago to work as a nurse is currently facing deportation over her marriage to another documented migrant worker in Israel. Charlene Ramos married her husband, Judser Maclenda, also from the Philippines, earlier this month.
On Monday, two days after their wedding celebration, Ramos was arrested by the Oz immigration police unit in Haifa. She was told that marriage is grounds for voiding a migrant worker’s permit in Israel.
Police claim that she tried to hide her wedding ring. The police called Maclenda and asked him to choose which of the couple would be deported. The couple chose Ramos.
Ramos was transported to the Givon prison for deportation.Bangladesh 'Eve Teasing' Craze Takes a Terrible Toll | BBC News
This Sunday (13 June) has been designated "Eve Teasing Protection Day" by the education ministry in Bangladesh.
The announcement reflects increasing concern over the worrying number of girls and women who have recently committed suicide in the country to escape "Eve teasing", a euphemism for sexual harassment.
Figures released by the Ain-O-Shalish Kendra (ASK) human rights organisation reveal that 14 girls and women have taken their own lives over the past four months across the country as a direct result of the insults.
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Critics argue that laws which should prohibit sexual harassment are so poorly drafted that victims get virtually no help from the law enforcement agencies. Families of the victims are left feeling hopeless and helpless.
"Some victims find suicide is the only avenue that enables them to escape this social pandemic," said Sultana Kamal, executive director of ASK.
Netanyahu urges restraint in segregated West Bank school row
The Ashkenazi students of the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yaakov girls’ school in Immanuel stayed home on Wednesday, yet again, as part of an organized protest against the decision by the Education Ministry and High Court to end the segregation between Sephardi and Ashkenazi students. “No court ruling or Education Ministry decision can bring the two groups together,” an Immanuel resident said Wednesday.
“It’s like putting Americans and Africans together. They can’t study together with such huge mental differences,” he said.
Some 70 Ashkenazi students of the Beit Yaakov girls’ school stopped attending classes two days before the Hanukkah holiday - in protest of the ministry’s efforts to force the ultra-Orthodox school to rescind the segregation, in keeping with the High Court ruling.
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“It’s a disgrace to this place, the ministry must intervene to stop the segregation once and for all,” the father of one Mizrahi student said. “The Ashkenazis think they’re more intelligent than we are, but what really bugs them is our skin color.”
NYT Op-ed Argues to Derecognize Certain African Nations
this op-ed published in the New York Times, which argues that the world should stop recognizing certain African nations. Pierre Englebert, of Pomona College, believes this will end many of the problems on the continent: [F]or the past five decades, most Africans have suffered predation of colonial proportions by the very states that were supposed to bring them freedom. And most of these nations, broke from their own thievery, are now unable to provide their citizens with basic services like security, roads, hospitals and schools. What can be done?
The first and most urgent task is that the donor countries that keep these nations afloat should cease sheltering African elites from accountability. To do so, the international community must move swiftly to derecognize the worst-performing African states, forcing their rulers - for the very first time in their checkered histories - to search for support and legitimacy at home.
A migrant worker who arrived in Israel legally from the Philippines four years ago to work as a nurse is currently facing deportation over her marriage to another documented migrant worker in Israel. Charlene Ramos married her husband, Judser Maclenda, also from the Philippines, earlier this month.
On Monday, two days after their wedding celebration, Ramos was arrested by the Oz immigration police unit in Haifa. She was told that marriage is grounds for voiding a migrant worker’s permit in Israel.
Police claim that she tried to hide her wedding ring. The police called Maclenda and asked him to choose which of the couple would be deported. The couple chose Ramos.
Ramos was transported to the Givon prison for deportation.Bangladesh 'Eve Teasing' Craze Takes a Terrible Toll | BBC News
This Sunday (13 June) has been designated "Eve Teasing Protection Day" by the education ministry in Bangladesh.
The announcement reflects increasing concern over the worrying number of girls and women who have recently committed suicide in the country to escape "Eve teasing", a euphemism for sexual harassment.
Figures released by the Ain-O-Shalish Kendra (ASK) human rights organisation reveal that 14 girls and women have taken their own lives over the past four months across the country as a direct result of the insults.
[…]
Critics argue that laws which should prohibit sexual harassment are so poorly drafted that victims get virtually no help from the law enforcement agencies. Families of the victims are left feeling hopeless and helpless.
"Some victims find suicide is the only avenue that enables them to escape this social pandemic," said Sultana Kamal, executive director of ASK.
Netanyahu urges restraint in segregated West Bank school row
The Ashkenazi students of the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yaakov girls’ school in Immanuel stayed home on Wednesday, yet again, as part of an organized protest against the decision by the Education Ministry and High Court to end the segregation between Sephardi and Ashkenazi students. “No court ruling or Education Ministry decision can bring the two groups together,” an Immanuel resident said Wednesday.
“It’s like putting Americans and Africans together. They can’t study together with such huge mental differences,” he said.
Some 70 Ashkenazi students of the Beit Yaakov girls’ school stopped attending classes two days before the Hanukkah holiday - in protest of the ministry’s efforts to force the ultra-Orthodox school to rescind the segregation, in keeping with the High Court ruling.
[...]
“It’s a disgrace to this place, the ministry must intervene to stop the segregation once and for all,” the father of one Mizrahi student said. “The Ashkenazis think they’re more intelligent than we are, but what really bugs them is our skin color.”
NYT Op-ed Argues to Derecognize Certain African Nations
this op-ed published in the New York Times, which argues that the world should stop recognizing certain African nations. Pierre Englebert, of Pomona College, believes this will end many of the problems on the continent: [F]or the past five decades, most Africans have suffered predation of colonial proportions by the very states that were supposed to bring them freedom. And most of these nations, broke from their own thievery, are now unable to provide their citizens with basic services like security, roads, hospitals and schools. What can be done?
The first and most urgent task is that the donor countries that keep these nations afloat should cease sheltering African elites from accountability. To do so, the international community must move swiftly to derecognize the worst-performing African states, forcing their rulers - for the very first time in their checkered histories - to search for support and legitimacy at home.