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Nine months after the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 health crisis was a pandemic, international animal protection organization Animal Equality has released a new investigation that reveals China’s wet markets are still in operation—markets where wild and domesticated animals are slaughtered and sold to customers who desire freshly killed, and markets like those where scientists believe COVID-19 originated.
This is not the first time that Animal Equality infiltrated wet markets in Asia. In 2014 and again in early 2020, the nonprofit released shocking images of wet markets in China, Vietnam, and India, which documented extreme neglect and animal cruelty within these unsanitary places.
"The risk posed by wet and live animal markets is undeniable. Unfortunately, Asia’s wet markets are still operating despite media reports and government statements claiming otherwise. As these markets are a direct threat to human health and safety, as well as extremely cruel towards animals, it was our obligation to show the world that these markets are still in business and as such, are increasing the likelihood that another COVID-19 type virus could emerge," said Sharon Núñez, President of Animal Equality.
The investigation was filmed in China in the cities Wuhan, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Guilin, Nanning, and Liuzhou in May 2020 with the help of local activists. The footage reveals that despite the pandemic, live animal markets continue to sell animals such as turtles, frogs, ducks, geese, pigeons, and others, bringing together species that in nature would never live together. Scientific consensus finds that these markets are the perfect breeding ground for animal-borne diseases, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 75% of all new or emerging diseases in humans come from animals.
Animal Equality points to research that warns that the abusive and unhygienic handling and transportation of animals at these markets causes the animals high levels of stress, which leads to the deterioration of their immune systems, making them more susceptible to diseases—diseases that, if the jump is made to humans, increase the likelihood that another pandemic virus could emerge.
Animal Equality seeks the closure of live animal markets, which are not only cruel to animals but also pose a substantial risk to human health and safety. A worldwide petition started by Animal Equality in April calling for the end of all wet markets has gathered over 500K signatures, so far.
To learn more and take action, visit animalequality.org/markets.
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Child Protection
Please support our movement on child protection systems to prevent and respond to child violence, abuse and exploitation.
Challenge
Violence, abuse and exploitation of children in West and Central Africa are tragic aspects of childhood. Surveys show that the vast majority of children experience violent discipline. Nearly one in three teenage girls have been beaten or hit since the age of 15, and one in 10 raped or sexually abused.
Child marriage – a serious violation of children’s rights – affects four in 10 girls aged 20–24 who were married before their 18th birthday. The region also has a quarter of all girl victims of female genital mutilation and cutting, and the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the world.
Despite significant progress in improving civil registration and vital statistics systems, birth registration rates in the region are low and declining in some countries. Less than half of all children under five in Africa are registered at birth.
Children in the region are especially affected by migration. Many are currently on the move, either unaccompanied or traveling with their families. Migration involves plucking children from their homes, schools and communities, which can be hugely disruptive, stressful and dangerous.
Armed conflict, which plagues some of the region’s countries, has also put the lives of children in serious danger. Children are experiencing grave child rights in violations such as killing, injury, recruitment by armed forces or groups, sexual violence, abduction, denial of humanitarian assistance and attacks on schools and hospitals.
Solution
Every child should be protected from violence, exploitation and harmful social and cultural practices. This is how we make it happen in Africa.
Violence and Exploitation
Ending violence, abuse and exploitation of children means bringing together many different actors to work together. SNL supports countries and partners to develop and carry out systemic and multi-sector programmes with a focus on sexual violence, violence in and around schools, and physical violence. In addition, countries are assisted to develop preparedness, prevention and response initiatives for children protection during conflict and other disasters.
Child Marriage
Child marriage threatens girls' education, health, emotional well-being, and the health of their children. To put an end to this harmful practice and support children, SNL works with countries to galvanize political will, develop laws, provide health care to women and girls affected by female genital mutilation/cutting and mobilize communities to change behaviour.
Birth Registration
Birth registration is a passport to protection for children and provides them with access to social services. SNL works with countries to increase birth registration rates through the health system and in remote communities, as well as modernizing civil registration and vital statistic systems.
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Trains have not run through this crossing in Wakefield, MA in almost ten years. these signals might not be standing for much longer.
((Street)) • Downtown Los Angeles
A private security guard in downtown Los Angeles chats on the phone while a few of his colleagues enter the facility, walking their bikes through the entrance.
Ostensibly, their shift is over for now.
The cow protection movement was the movement that demanded end of cow slaughter in British India.[1] The movement gained momentum with the support from Arya Samaj and its founding father Swami Dayananda Saraswati. Swami Dayananda and his followers travelled across India which led to the establishment of cow protection societies in various regions of India starting at 1882. In 1893, during the peak of this movement and immediately after an order from a British magistrate who asked Muslims who wanted to sacrifice to register, violence broke out in Mau in Azamgarh district which in the following months culminated in riots across Northern India spreading its tentacles all the way to Bombay and Rangoon.
The movement antagonized many Muslims, who saw it as a Hindu tool of oppression.
The cow is a sacred animal in the Hindu religion.Cows are considered companions of Hindu God Krishna. Dairy products are extensively used in Hindu culture and are one of the most essential nutritional components of Hindu meals. Panchagavya, a mixture of five products of cow milk, curd, ghee, urine and dung,[2] is consumed in Brahmanical rituals. The mixture is also smeared on ulcers as a healing product.Cow dung diluted with water is used for plastering huts and court yards in India and cow dung water is used for purifying.Cow urine is believed to have medicinal properties and consumption of cow urine was done by many popular personalities like former Prime Minister Morarji Desai(He is believed to have consumed own urine).[3]
Veneration of the cow increased during medieval times when the rate of cow slaughter increased phenomenally. It is also believed that Muslim sacrifice of cows during Bakr-Id also led to an increase in cow veneration among Hindus.[4]
§Arya Samaj[edit]
Arya Samaj propounded the idea that Hindus should cleanse their religion and return to the purer form of Hinduism which existed during Vedic times. While this movement rejected idol worship, polytheism, child marriage, widow celibacy, the caste system by birth and the spiritual superiority of Brahman priests, it accepted the practice of cow worship.[4][5]
In a treatise called Gokarunanidhi, (Ocean of mercy to the cow), published by Dayananda Saraswathi in 1881[6] the author strongly opposed cow slaughter as an anti-Hindu act. Dayananda and his followers travelled all across India giving lectures and founding societies. The advent of trains, buses, and printing presses aided in a much wider dissemination of their messages.
It is also argued that British policy during that time strengthened the organization. In 1888, a high court in Allahabad ruled that cows are not “sacred” animals as defined in section 295 of the Indian Penal Code and Muslims could not be held accountable for slaughtering them.[7]
§Cow sacrifice and consumption[edit]
Muslims sacrifice cows during the Eid al-Adha festival. Though goat slaughter is also permitted in Islam, cows are cheaper; cow slaughter also became a symbol of Muslims asserting their rights and not bowing down to the demands of their Hindu neighbors.[7] Beef was a popular food for the British living in India as well.[8]
§Protection Movement[edit]
Historians argue that the symbol of the cow was used as a means of mobilizing Hindus. In the 1870s, cow protection movements spread rapidly in the Punjab, the North-West provinces, Awadh and Rohilkhand. Arya Samaj had a tremendous role in skillfully converting this sentiment into a national movement.[9] Vijaypal Baghel has been dedicating to save cow and conducting a mass movement in the northern India.
The first Gaurakshini sabha (cow protection society) was established in the Punjab in 1882.[10] The movement spread rapidly all over North India and to Bengal, Bombay, Madras and other central provinces. The organization rescued wandering cows and reclaimed them to groom them in places called gaushalas (cow refuges). Charitable networks developed all through North India to collect rice from individuals, pool the contributions, and re-sell them to fund the gaushalas. Signatures, up to 350,000 in some places, were collected to demand a ban on cow sacrifice.[11]
During Dayananda’s time, cow protection was not much regarded as an anti-Muslim phenomenon, and he attempted to build a rational and respectable movement around this sentiment. It gradually became an issue of communal rivalry as it became a legal issue and calls for a legal ban on cow slaughter were raised.[12]
§1893 riots[edit]
Cow protection sentiment reached its peak in 1893. Large public meetings were held in Nagpur, Hardwar and Benares to denounce beef-eaters. Melodramas were conducted to display the plight of cows, and pamphlets were distributed, to create awareness among those who sacrificed and ate them. Riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims in Mau in the Azamgarh district; it took 3 days for the government to regain control.
The rioting was precipitated by contradictory interpretations of a British local magistrate's order. He had apparently asked all the Muslims interested in cow slaughter to register, which undertaking was in fact performed to identify problem-prone areas. However, Muslims had interpreted this as a promise of protection for those who wanted to perform sacrifices.[13]
The series of violent incidences also resulted in a riot in Bombay involving the working classes, and unrest occurred in places as far away as Rangoon, Burma. An estimated thirty-one to forty-five communal riots broke out over six months and a total of 107 people were killed.[11][12][14]
2017 Nov 20-23
Cape Town, South Africa
The IDWF Executive Committee members and Regional Coordinators are meeting in Cape Town and having discussion of the plan for the coming year.
"We are the Women. No Women No Cry. We are in Struggle. No Women No Cry." We domestic workers not only organize. We also sing. Let our voices be heard! Thanks SADSAWU lead singers.
Tamara, a domestic worker was stripped of her clothes and dignity by four male students from Angola who claimed she stole 140 thousand dollars. After the torture she endured for hours the students are still harassing her. Our affiliate in South Africa, SADSAWU will help her.
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Installing charcoal filter in Finn Creek in an attempt to filter out any DDT. Western hemlock looper control project, Washington.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1963
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Region 6, Forest Health Protection slide collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon.
For information about this control project see: archive.org/details/CAT10507172
Buffam, P.E. 1963. Plan for the technical direction of the 1963 western hemlock looper control project in southwest Washington. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Division of Timber Management, Insect and Disease Control Branch. 20 p.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Just my first try with a new macro.
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Luke is getting some hearing protection from his dad as the emergency equipment rolls past sounding their sirens and horns.
Photos from the ICON Celebrity & VIP Protection Training Course. For more info visit www.Industry-Icon.com/training
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Come play in Tableau and get festive at the Protection Festival!
Fi and I get our PartyBoy on a drunk and AFK Burger :)
For some time now I've been having problems with my camera strap. It keeps getting dirty and greesy. I got fed up with cleaning it over and over again, so I decided to get one of those strap covers. However, I wanted mine to be special, so I made it myself. I learnt to crochet and knit when I was 5 years old and this skill came in very handy now. I crocheted this strap from cotton yarn, so it's unique :-) I made another one, which is black, so that I can switch them when they get dirty. The strap is now protected and it also feels much more comfortable around my neck now :-)
If you want such a cover, too, write me a Flickr mail and we'll arrange it!
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Protection Detail and repair of a nasty scratch carried out by DeVille Detailing. Read the full detail writeup here: www.devilledetailing.co.uk/1/post/2014/01/mazda-6-sport-p...
KeeGuard Contractor is a portable railing system that can be used for temporary or permeant rooftop edge fall protection.