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Violence and insecurity in northern Mali has not stopped, despite a peace agreement in 2015. Although the majority of refugees crossed to Mauritania in 2012 and 2013, some families have arrived more recently. One of the new arrivals is Abel Ba, a community leader who fled his village of Nampalá in 2015. He was a nomad livestock farmer, “I had 400 sheep, but we had to leave abruptly, so we left everything behind. All you see in this tent comes from relief aid,” he says. Abel arrived with 64 people from his extended family.
For nomads, being a refugee represents a challenge in many ways. Their traditional way of life which centres on being able to roam the landscape is restricted and their diet changes altogether, from mainly animal and milk products to rice, oil and beans.
©EU/ECHO/José Cendón
Model: KelloKitteh
Photography: Yannick Putz / www.plui5.com
This picture is a part of a project by Yannick Putz. The idea behind this project is that everyone has insecurities, no matter who you are. But you should embrace those insecurities as they're part of you and they're beautiful. No one is perfect, we all have flaws and that's what makes us beautiful.
This picture shows scars I still have from selfharm. I'm not ashamed of them, but they do make me insecure sometimes.
I want to get through this 365 and I figured that the only way to do it was to do my own weekly challenges. This week I am going to work on my insecurities. Lord knows I have TONS of them.
I will start with my face. Top to bottom.
When I got my septum ring my mother-in-law said "Why would someone ruin such a pretty face?" And as much as I love it... Sometimes... I don't.
Then there are my lips. A few years ago I had a staph infection on my lip that the Navy doctor couldn't treat, so I had to get surgery. Now my lip is forever numb and swollen.
Then there are my ears. I had a tumor behind my right ear that had to get removed. Now my right ear sits higher than my left.
Then there are my teeth. I hate my two front teeth. They are big. They are rabbit like.
My body isn't perfect. And I hate it. Maybe if I just call it out for what it is it would make it better to live with.
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"insecurity"
sorry yall I didn't do yesterday and the day before because I was awfully sick and I had too much English homework to do.
but whatever, I'm two days behind :(
In this shoot I was representing how a lot of teenage girls think there too fat. This is because anorexic stars and models that grace the covers of our magazines nowadays. This photograph was to represent the obsession with making yourself skinnier. I had Rosie breath in to say that no matter how skinny some girls get they don’t see themselves as beautiful until they get skinner and skinner and comes to point where it damages their health and wellbeing.
from "the insecurities of time" at Ad Hoc Art in brooklyn, Jan 2009.
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Theme of the Week : Insecurities
I have a really hard time telling people that I'm gender-neutral. I'm always afraid of how they'll take it, and how they'll act with me afterward. It's a part of my identity, and I know that I should embrace it more, but it's just so hard sometimes.
sooc.
Model: KelloKitteh
Photography: Yannick Putz / www.plui5.com
This picture is a part of a project by Yannick Putz. The idea behind this project is that everyone has insecurities, no matter who you are. But you should embrace those insecurities as they're part of you and they're beautiful. No one is perfect, we all have flaws and that's what makes us beautiful.
This picture shows scars I still have from selfharm. I'm not ashamed of them, but they do make me insecure sometimes.
Stop Bullying Start Acceptance.
"Bully, I say!" — Outspoken Bully Lobbyist
"Bully!" — Teddy Roosevelt
Overcompensate for insecurities with promiscuous sex, not bullying.
Day 91:
We all have our problems.
We all have our faults.
We all have our insecurities.
We are all imperfect.
claim your #
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“Stressed Out” ―Twenty One Pilots, 2015
I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard,
I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words,
I wish I found some chords in an order that is new,
I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang,
I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But now I'm insecure and I care what people think.
My name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
My name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
We're stressed out.
Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young,
How come I'm never able to identify where it's coming from,
I'd make a candle out of it if I ever found it,
Try to sell it, never sell out of it, I'd probably only sell one,
It'd be to my brother, 'cause we have the same nose,
Same clothes homegrown a stone's throw from a creek we used to roam,
But it would remind us of when nothing really mattered,
Out of student loans and treehouse homes we all would take the latter.
My name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
My name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
We used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away,
Used to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,
Saying, "Wake up, you need to make money."
Yo.
We used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away,
Used to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,
Saying, "Wake up, you need to make money."
Yo.
Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Used to play pretend, used to play pretend, bunny
We used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money
Used to play pretend, used to play pretend, bunny
We used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money
We used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away,
Used to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,
Saying, "Wake up, you need to make money."
Yo.
7/12/08
Insecurity is a feeling of general unease or nervousness that may be triggered by perceiving oneself to be unloved, inadequate or worthless (whether in a rational or an irrational manner).
A person who is insecure lacks confidence in their own value and capability, trust in themselves or others, or has fears that a present positive state is temporary and will let them down and cause them loss or distress by "going wrong" in future.
This is not to be confused with humility, which involves recognising one's failings but still maintaining a healthy dose of self-confidence. Insecurity is not an objective evaluation of one's ability but an emotional interpretation, as two people with the same capabilities may have entirely different levels of insecurity.
Insecurity may cause shyness, paranoia and social withdrawal, or alternatively it may encourage compensatory behaviors such as arrogance, aggression, or bullying, a principle enshrined in the phrase "all bullies are cowards." Bullying comes in many forms, but often comes into the subject of weight such as "Hahaha you're fat." or "Why don't you lose some weight?" Many people suffer a period of insecurity during puberty, which gives rise to a lot of the stereotypical behaviors of adolescents.
Insecurity has many effects in a person's life. There are several levels of it. It nearly always causes some degree of isolation as a typically insecure person withdraws themselves to some extent. The greater the insecurity, the higher the degree of isolation. Insecurity is often rooted in a person during their childhood years. Like offense and bitterness, it grows in layer fashion, often becoming an immobilising force that sets a limiting factor in the person's life. Insecurity robs by degrees - the degree it is entrenched is the degree of power it has in the person's life.
As insecurity can be distressing and feel threatening to the psyche, insecurity can often be accompanied by a controlling personality type or avoidance, as psychological defence mechanisms.
Insecurity can be overcome. It takes time and patience and a willingness to believe each person (and specifically oneself) is in fact of innate value. The first of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development details the challenge of finding security and learning to trust one's self and environment.
The EU is supporting UN partners to introduce biometric registration in the refugee camps, like here in Ali Addeh. The priority of EU humanitarian aid in Djibouti is to provide life-saving assistance to refugees and look for durable solutions to their plight.
Djibouti hosts over 18 000 long-term refugees and asylum seekers mainly from Somalia whose basic needs such as shelter, water and protection need to be catered for.
Since the start of the Yemen crisis in March 2015, close to 80 000 people have fled to countries in the Horn of Africa including nearly 40 000 to Djibouti. This new influx is putting pressure on the country’s limited natural resources and services.
Djibouti imports 95% of its food. The number of people at risk of hunger has increased since the 2011 drought, accelerating the rural exodus to urban areas. A combination of high food prices, water scarcity, climate change and reduced pasture has increased food insecurity. This year’s El Niño has led to even dryer weather.
Humanitarian funding from the European Commission provides refugees with access to clean water and sanitation as well as shelter, protection, nutrition and health care. Food assistance is given in the form of cash transfers as a way of promoting refugees’ self-reliance. ©EU/ECHO/Massimo La Rosa
The presence of armed security personnel in Somalia is often intimidating to beneficiaries and aid workers.
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La présence d'agents de sécurité armés en Somalie est souvent intimidante pour les bénéficiaires et les travailleurs humanitaires.
EC/ECHO/Phillipe Royan
Sometimes I worry that I am spending too much time on flickr. The rest of the time I am certain I am.
TOTW - Insecurities
March Alphabet Madness - K is for Kicking the Bucket
Movements to and from the refugee camps are risky and restricted due to increased insecurity. As the threat to workers escalate, aid agencies have had to scale down operations in the face of increasing humanitarian needs.
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Les déplacements vers et depuis les camps de réfugiés sont risqués et restreints du fait de l'insécurité croissante. Les menaces envers les humanitaires augmentant considérablement, les organismes d'aide ont dû diminuer leurs opérations malgré l'augmentation des besoins humanitaires.
Photo: EC/ECHO/Daniel Dickinson
Chief Superintendent John O’Hare, commander of Greater Manchester Police’s Rochdale Division took to the streets alongside his officers this week (6/9/10) to help residents ensure their homes and vehicles were secure.
The officers were checking for unlocked doors and windows of houses and property left on display in vehicles. When such insecurities where found the officers posted footprint shaped advice cards warning residents of the risks they were running.
The officers were also offering residents face-to-face security advice.
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Police in Middleton are using balloons to crackdown on burglary.
Supported by volunteers from the community, officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Middleton Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) are putting helium balloons through open windows and doors in the area, to tackle insecurity burglaries.
The balloons are attached to a card which says ‘Why am I here?’. The reverse of the card gives the reason, with a warning to close windows and doors or have your treasured items burgled.
Police Community Support Officers are then visiting the householder to offer to conduct a Home Security Assessment. During this assessment, any vulnerable parts of the house are identified and advice about locks and security is given. Those taking part in the assessment will also be encouraged to ‘like’ the NPT’s new Facebook page for further information about crime and policing in their area.
Houses that do not have any open doors or windows will receive a leaflet congratulating them but also giving further advice about avoiding burglary.
The number of insecurity-related burglaries tends to increase during the summer months as the warmer weather encourages people to leave their windows open.
Superintendent John Graves from GMP’s Rochdale Division, said: “This is community empowerment in action - local people getting involved in the fight against crime, working alongside the police to help their neighbours protect their property and be safer.
“The greater the forces of decency and honesty, the bigger impact we will have - and seeing local people volunteering, becoming more involved, and just getting stuck in is an inspiration to us all.
“We know that around one in three burglaries happen because of insecurity - a window left open, a door left unlocked and thieves will hunt for this. This initiative is about warning decent people of the threat, and encouraging them to Lock it or lose it!
“To follow us on Facebook, people need to ‘like’ our page which you can find by searching for GMP Middleton once you have logged into your account.”
Don't be afraid of starting new chapters in your life.
Don't be afraid of being alone, you were born that way and, at the end, you will be alone too.
Enjoy being by yourself. Get to know your mind in such a way you like spend time exploring it.
Respect and take care of yourself. Travel, get out to know new people, make new friends, love and spend time with those around you, they will not be there forever.
There is no second chances, this is it. There is no God and there is no second lives.
Stop making excuses, otherwise you will regret every opportunity you have missed because of fear and insecurity.
April 18, 2013 - Washington DC., 2013 World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings. Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: A Threat to Development. Photo: Roxana Bravo / World Bank
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november 17, 2012
there is a reason i don't date men. i consider myself a lesbian because i prefer women. but every five years or so a guy will catch my interest especially after a series of failed relationships... but it always just reinforces the fact that i can't be with men. i become this needy, insecure GIRL that i hate. why did i do this to myself again? ARGH. i hate boys. meh.
♥
stephanie
day 17 of 30 days of gratitude:
i am grateful that my brother is still alive. today is his 28th birthday so i figured i'd be grateful for him today. :o/ we are complete opposite human beings... happy birthday brother.
Following the post-election crisis of 2010-2011, the European Commission has encouraged the establishment of a partnership to facilitate a transition between humanitarian and development aid in support of Côte d’Ivoire’s efforts to restore social services to its people. ECHO’s aid supports the government’s policy of free healthcare for children and pregnant women in order to reduce the high rate of illness and preventable deaths, but also the improvement of food security and social cohesion in areas affected by the conflict. ©EC/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie
Facing food insecurity, even in good times, Diffa populations largely depend on foreign food aid. As the lack of food forced 40% of families to reduce their daily food rations, food distribution (grain, oil and pulse crops) is done every month, following precise criteria.
Each family receives 75 kg of grain, 3 litres of oil and 15 kg of pulse crops. For children aged 6 months -2 years, there is also 6 kg of super cereal, while pregnant and lactating women receive 7.5 kg of it. In addition to food distribution, prenatal and post-natal consultations are held.
Nutritional care as well as primary health care is provided by EU funded organisations like Save the Children. Some other NGOs such as IRC and COOPI additionally offer psycho-social support to children affected by the conflict.
Photo credit: EU/ECHO/Jean de Lestrange
Le beau monde me manque. Il vit toujours là sous mes yeux, mais mon dieu que ça me manque de le capturer.
I was insecure. I am.
(more in comments.)
25 October, 2009.
Hutch made us laugh and cry at this very vulnerable talk about Insecurity. We were on Zoom again but the virtual hugs were great.
At the height of the 2011 Horn of Africa crisis, Dadaab received a huge influx of refugees mainly from Somalia. Currently, the camps host a population of 470,000 remaining the largest refugee camps in the world.
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Au plus fort de la crise dans la Corne de l'Afrique en 2011, Dadaab a reçu un important afflux de réfugiés provenant principalement de Somalie. À l'heure actuelle, le camp accueille 470 000 personnes, ce qui en fait le plus grand camp de réfugiés au monde.
Photo: EC/ECHO/Daniel Dickinson
At publicly funded campuses like Michigan State University the legislators for the state took away budget support little by little, resulting in bigger than cost-of-living increases in fees and tuition paid by in-state and out-of-state students since the early 2000s. With the federal influx of state funding, some of the state's own revenues are being returned to higher education budgets in 2022 or 2023. Whether this relief will trickle down to tuition payers or not is yet to be seen, though. At any rate as the cost of college attendance ramped up fewer applied for admission. Those attending sometimes needed food pantries to sustain themselves with free or reduced food.
This photo was taken an hour too late. On the countertop are six bottles of hand sanitizer for apartment block renters to make use of at no charge. To the right there were cans of food sitting out, free for the taking: 5 or 6 tiny cans of cocktail-sized sausages (open and ready to eat) and 2 or 3 cans of mixed vegetables. But before going to get the camera/phone from the car to record the ethnographic moment, somebody had scooped up the cans!
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"Does this angle make my butt look big?" :-)
Photo taken in Dawsonville, GA at the Kangaroo Conservation Center.
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Most women suffer from the cellulite problem that makes them insecure to come in front of others. If you are suffering from cellulite problem, then you must know that it can bring many other issues. Treating this problem is not an easy task. You have to take lots of...
Terrorism, hybrid threats and cyber- and energy insecurity leave EU countries no choice but to step up their security and defence cooperation efforts, thus paving the way to a European Defence Union, say MEPs in a resolution passed on Tuesday. They suggest devoting 2% of GDP to defence, establishing multinational forces and EU headquarters to plan and command crisis management operations, and enabling the EU to act where NATO is unwilling to do so.
“Our Union is not equipped to face overwhelming defence challenges. For almost 30 years, most of its member states have been cutting their defence budgets, leading to smaller armed forces. Cooperation among member states is occasional and Europe continues to rely heavily on NATO capabilities and on the US solidarity“, said rapporteur Urmas Paet (ALDE, ET), in the debate on Monday. He stressed that “the momentum to move towards a working European Defence Policy has come.”
The security situation in and around Europe has worsened significantly in recent years, due to challenges like terrorism, hybrid threats or cyber and energy insecurity, that no country is able to tackle alone, says a resolution on the European Defence Union, approved by 369 votes to 255, with 70 abstentions. “Solidarity and resilience require the EU to stand and act together”, it says.
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Since I got one of those inevitable "ours boys blood was spilled for that flag" comments on the last photo, I figured that was my cue to serve up some more stars and stripes.
This is the not-yet-world famous Iranian-American photographer Reza Mazaheri, overflowing with homeland insecurity.
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from "the insecurities of time" at Ad Hoc Art in brooklyn, Jan 2009
check out il.youtube.com/watch?v=ldZ2h4aeqQI for video footage of installation.
thanks to reid harris cooper for the photo
Not sooc actually.
Sorry for the lag in uploads. I kind of have a ton of classes- no free periods or lunch at all. Ahhh. So crazy. And I'm in tutoring for the ACT and prepping for AP testing. Enough about my boring life.
Here is a photo, flickr. Insecurity. Obviously, we all have our insecurities. I definitely suffer with self-esteem issues and it's a huge struggle. People often ask me why- and honestly, it's inexplicable. It's just how I've trained my brain to work. Anyway, I'm a huge nerd and go on PsychologyToday all the time and I recently found an article about plastic surgery. I found out that girls younger than me (16) are getting plastic surgery because someone told them their nose was crooked or because they tricked themselves into believing they weren't beautiful enough or good enough. That's so crazy. So I present you, flickr, with this photo. The lines on my face are those that have been drawn on thousands of girls' faces just before they go under the knife. The clock symbolizes the ticking of society, of their lives, the withering away of their self-esteems.
Lastly, I give you the link to the article.
And I just want to let you know- that every single person out there is beautiful. I don't care who you are, what you look like, or who you have been. You are beautiful- both inside and out.
Cheesiness is over.
Going to get some sleep before I crash.
Have a lovely Singles Awareness Day, flickr. <3
From October 1, 2022: It’s the first of the #month and I already feel the pressure of being behind. I just don’t have any energy due to some kind of stomach bug I’ve come down with. At the time I took this photo, I had just scrubbed my feet in the shower, and rubbed more moisturizer all over them. It took a lot longer than expected. I felt the cold tile settle into the naked skin of my buttocks as I sat cross legged. The water hit my head and trickled down my back as I lathered up the brush I was going to use on my #feet. Both feet are bruised here and there, and on my left foot scabs have formed over the parts where my sandals had cut into the flesh during a long walk I did on September 3. Getting up took awhile as I felt winded by this simplest of tasks.
It’s a new month, and like a scaled down version of some New Years resolutions, I often think about my expectations for the month ahead. Firstly, I’m hoping I won’t get sicker in the days to come. Secondly, I’m hoping I’ll be able to keep ahead of the things I always feel like I’m behind with: from my school work, to work that’s needed to be done in the house and in the yard, and to my own personal development with activities like this daily selfie project, listening to more of Natalie Goldberg, and just getting outside to walk again.
I’m still finding myself #afraid of failing with these #resolutions though. I don’t want to fall behind, and I definitely don’t want to fail with getting things done. And I don’t want to be #depressed with life as I so often have been. I’m also finding myself afraid of feeling #lonely again. That #emptiness is always there, like it’s stalking me on one hand but also ready to jump out at me as soon as I found the next corner. I don’t want to feel that way anymore. Each time I seem to start something with gusto, I just stumble and fall. Sometimes it’s for reasons beyond my control. Like getting physically sick. But often it’s for reasons that are in my control. And that frightens me more, it feeds my #anxiety because - what if I don’t get it done? What if I just pick at the scabs of my #insecurities, letting them drown me in a pool of my own blood?
But I have to try.
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