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Saturday, 10 April 2021
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Online violence against women journalists harms everyone - global campaign
Safety of Women Journalists
Around the globe, women journalists and female media workers face offline and online attacks putting their safety at risk – these attacks can range from harassment, stigmatization, sexist hate speech, trolling, physical assault, rape to even murder. In addition to being targeted on the basis of their work as journalists, they are also the targets of gender-based violence.
Studies have shown that female journalists are targeted online significantly more than their male colleagues, and that the threats they face are highly sexualized, focused on their physical features, ethnicity, or cultural background, rather than on the content of their work. As a result, these threats tend to silence women journalists’ voices and to deplete freedom of speech by interrupting valuable investigative journalist work. They also distort the media landscape by threatening diversity and perpetuating inequalities both in newsrooms and in societies.
A number of recent UN resolutions and reports show that there is growing recognition by the international community of the need to take into account the specific risks women journalists face both offline and online. UNESCO Director-General in her annual request to Member States regarding judicial follow-up of killings of journalists also inquires on specific actions taken by Member States to address safety of women journalists. A summary of the reported measures can be found in the Director-General's Report on Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity.
UNESCO takes effective measures to tackle the issue of the safety of women journalists on three main levels:
COVID-19: ANGOLA REPORTS 98 NEW INFECTIONS, 12 RECOVERIES
EU life expectancy drops across bloc amid virus pandemic
Rallies, religious gatherings aggravate India’s worst COVID surge

When daily infections fell below 10,000 in early February, some experts predicted India would see only a modest second wave at most.
“We were really premature to celebrate,” said University of Michigan epidemiologist Bhramar Mukherjee.
“This is a lesson,” said Mukherjee, who leads a team of researchers modelling the trajectory of India’s outbreak. “The really treacherous thing about this virus is how silently it casts its footsteps. By the time you see the cases and deaths, the damage is done.”
With 13.6 million cases, India is just behind Brazil and well below the US, which has recorded more than 30 million infections.
India’s COVID-19 deaths are above 166,000, although its death rate is one of the lowest in the world, partly because of its relatively young population.
Authorities have imposed some curbs on movement but federal ministers and industrialists have advised against another national lockdown. Last year’s curbs thrashed the economy and threw millions of poor people out of jobs.
Instead, an increasing number of states are imposing local curbs, including night curfews in mega-cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai.
New Zealand on Thursday suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks.
Shashank Tripathi, a professor at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, said that even if most people are eventually exposed to the virus, “there is no guarantee that it will not come back and infect you again.”
“The lesson is the same for any country.”
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Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 99

Over the decades, Philip’s image changed from that of handsome, dashing athlete to arrogant and insensitive curmudgeon. In his later years, the image finally settled into that of droll and philosophical observer of the times, an elderly, craggy-faced man who maintained his military bearing despite ailments.
The popular Netflix series “The Crown” gave Philip a central role, with a slightly racy, swashbuckling image. He never commented on it in public, but the portrayal struck a chord with many Britons, including younger viewers who had only known him as an elderly man.
Philip’s position was a challenging one — there is no official role for the husband of a sovereign queen — and his life was marked by extraordinary contradictions between his public and private duties. He always walked three paces behind his wife in public, in a show of deference to the monarch, but he was the head of the family in private. Still, his son Charles, as heir to the throne, had a larger income, as well as access to the high-level government papers Philip was not permitted to see.
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DMX, Known For Gritty Raps And Smashing Billboard Charts, Dies At Age 50
Legendary rapper DMX died this week after being hospitalized for a heart attack, his team said in a statement to XXL Mag. He was 50.
The hip-hop star, born Earl Simmons, was taken to a hospital in White Plains, New York, on April 2 after the heart attack, according to his attorney, Murray Richman. He was put on life support over the weekend, and had reportedly been set to undergo brain function tests Wednesday.
Sources close to DMX reported the heart attack was triggered by an overdose, according to TMZ.
“Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end. He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him. Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever,” said the statement from his team. “We appreciate all of the love and support during this incredibly difficult time. Please respect our privacy as we grieve the loss of our brother, father, uncle and the man the world knew as DMX.”
Details about a memorial service will be released at a later date, his team said.
Sometimes known by his unabbreviated stage name, “Dark Man X,” DMX was renowned for representing Yonkers, New York, barking on his songs and producing dark, gritty raps that helped move hip-hop away from the so-called “shiny-suit era” that was characterized by flamboyancy and popularized by artists such as Diddy in the late 1990s.
DMX made his first major splash in 1998 with the album “It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot.” Released by Def Jam in May of that year, the album sold over 5 million copies and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, quickly gaining renown for singles like “Ruff Ryders Anthem” and “How’s It Goin’ Down.”
That same year in December, DMX released his second album, “Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood,” which also debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, making DMX one of the few artists to have two No. 1 albums in one year and putting him in the same company as Led Zeppelin and Tupac Shakur.
DMX would continue to smash records, ultimately having his first five albums debut at No. 1 and acting in a number of films throughout the 2000s, notably pairing up with Jet Li twice in “Romeo Must Die” and “Cradle 2 The Grave.”
Despite this, the rapper regularly struggled with drugs and an addiction to crack cocaine that he said began at the age of 14, and was arrested for a number of charges, including drug possession, animal cruelty and tax evasion.
As his arrests piled up, DMX became more known for close calls with death and drug incidents than his career, and in February 2016, he was found without a pulse in a hotel parking lot in Yonkers. He later said he’d had an asthma attack, though a witness reported that he had taken a powdery substance before he collapsed.
“[DMX] is one of the best vocalists, if not the best vocalist Def Jam ever had,” Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, told HipHopDX that year. “I love DMX. I think he’s one of the greatest artists we ever worked with. Unfortunately, the streets got the best of him. Some people can’t get rid of them demons. They can’t escape. … DMX did hurt his talent, destroyed his career.”
In a statement to HuffPost, former Def Jam head Lyor Cohen praised DMX as a man who was defined by both his talent and his struggles.
“Earl Simmons was a wonderful, caring father, and a sensitive, thoughtful man. Unfortunately, Dark Man X took over and ran amok, tormented and struggling to find the light,” Cohen said. “DMX gave me the inspiration to keep going at Def Jam when rap became soft and silly.”
Bolstered by his Christian faith ― even going so far as to take steps toward becoming an ordained pastor ― DMX entered rehab multiple times, most recently in October 2019, when the rapper announced via Instagram that he was in an “ongoing commitment to putting family and sobriety first.”
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