Thirty years ago, something amazing happened - the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set out an ambitious roadmap for achieving the equal rights of all women and girls.
As the U.S. seeks to strengthen ties with resource-rich Central Asia, the European Union is also reaching out to the region. Having adopted a new strategy for Central Asia in 2019, the bloc appears to be making renewed efforts to implement it.
Військовий оглядач Френк Гарднер вважає, що пропозиція США про припинення вогню може бути успішною, оскільки вона не зовсім
влаштовує жодну зі сторін. Україна швидко погодилася на пропозицію Білого дому, слово за кремлем.
The U.S. administration's efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine are putting pressure on the Kremlin. But Moscow has made considerable territorial gains and some in Russia say they are prepared to give up nothing.
У ніч на 13 березня російські війська здійснили масовані обстріли Херсона. Голова МВА закликав мешканців міста залишатися в
укриттях задля їхньої безпеки.
As a court in London found three members of a Russian spy ring guilty, VOA Russian spoke to Roman Dobrokhotov, the editor-in-chief of the Russian investigative outlet The Insider, who was a target of the spy ring's plot.
High on the hillsides of the Waraira Repano mountain, a sea of cinderblock homes pushes up to the edge of the forest.
This is the commune of Altos de Lidice. They have been organizing. Organizing to bring sports to local kids in the community. Organizing to ensure that everyone in the neighborhood has access to water, education, and, above all, health.
These are dire needs in 2019 Venezuela.
US sanctions are wreaking havoc. They were first imposed by Obama and then ramped up by Trump. They block Venezuela from trading internationally and selling oil, its top export. The sanctions have unraveled the economy and spiked inflation. Millions of Venezuelans are fleeing the country.
Broken cars sit along roadsides, because there are no parts to fix them. Water systems are failing, because replacement parts can’t be purchased from abroad. Health suppli
High on the hillsides of the Waraira Repano mountain, a sea of cinderblock homes pushes up to the edge of the forest.
This is the commune of Altos de Lidice. They have been organizing. Organizing to bring sports to local kids in the community. Organizing to ensure that everyone in the neighborhood has access to water, education, and, above all, health.
These are dire needs in 2019 Venezuela.
US sanctions are wreaking havoc. They were first imposed by Obama and then ramped up by Trump. They block Venezuela from trading internationally and selling oil, its top export. The sanctions have unraveled the economy and spiked inflation. Millions of Venezuelans are fleeing the country.
Broken cars sit along roadsides, because there are no parts to fix them. Water systems are failing, because replacement parts can’t be purchased from abroad. Health supplies are hard to find. So is medicine.
The shelves of pharmacies across the country are empty. Pharmacists say almost half of their product is impossible to acquire. The medicine they do have is so overpriced, it’s out of reach for most Venezuelans.
“People with cancer pretty much just die, because they just can’t afford it,” one pharmacist in Caracas tells me.
And that is what’s happening. According to one study, tens of thousands of people have died over the last two years, due to the sanctions. People with cancer, people who need dialysis, people with diabetes and hypertension, and who can’t acquire insulin or heart meds.
But neighbors in the Altos de Lidice commune are standing up for each other. They’ve created a community pharmacy. They get the medicine from anywhere they can. Donations from abroad. From individuals. Solidarity groups. Medicine has been brought to them from Australia, Brazil, Italy, and Chile.
It’s run by a health committee organized by a group of neighbors. They meet in one of their homes. The same place the pharmacy is run out of.
A sign sits out front. “Communal Pharmacy. Health for the Barrio.”
The medicine is all free. It’s delivered to those with a doctor’s note from the local community health clinic. Which is also free.
It’s one small service. But for those in the community here, it’s making a tremendous difference. It’s a matter of survival. A lifeboat in a sea of struggle.
Community resistance, in the face of harsh sanctions—and US intervention.
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