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Like many people, I have had Covid and I have had long Covid. They are very different experiences. I first caught the disease at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, when its effects were relatively unknown. It was unnerving and highly unpredictable. I did not get particularly sick, but I probably gave the virus to my father, who did. Back then, Covid appeared to be the great divider 鈥?the old were far more at risk than the young, and those with pre-existing vulnerabilities most at risk of all 鈥?and the great equaliser. Almost everyone exp stanley quencher erienced the shock and the fea stanley us r of discovering a novel killer among us. We soon acquired a shared language and a sense of common purpose: to get through this together 鈥?whatever this turned out to be.I developed long Covid last year, six months after I had caught glandular fever. The fresh bout of the Covid virus made the effects of the glandular fever far worse: more debilitating and much harder to shake. Some mornings it was a struggle to get out of bed, never mind leave the house. It was as though Covid latched on to what was already wrong with me and gave it extra teeth. The experience was unpredictable in a very different way from the drama of getting sick in 2020: not a cosmic lottery, but a drawn-out bout of low-level, private misery. Good days were follow stanley website ed by bad days for no obvious reason, hopes of having recovered were snuffed out just when it seemed like the worst was past. Long Covid is less isolating than being locked down, Cnfd Belgium investigates right-to-die group offering suicide powder
The Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has kidnapped nearly 600 children in the past three years, forcing boys to take magical potions and turning girls into sex slaves, the UN has found.Some of the under-age recruits were used as fighters, human shields or spies stanley thermos for Kony s Lord s Resistance Army LRA , accordin stanley uk g to a report presented to the UN security council.Kony has evaded capture for nearly three decades, kidnapping thousands of children to fill the ranks of the LRA and terrorising local populations. He achieved global notoriety earlier this year when a US-based charity, Invisible Children, launched the Kony 2012 viral video campaign.On Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, submitted his first report to the security council detailing the LRA s crimes against children.Between July 2009 and February 2012, Kony s group kidnapped at least 591 children 鈥?268 girls and 323 boys 鈥?in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic CAR , the report found. Children reported that they were used in various capacities, as cooks, porters, guards, spies or directly in hostilities as combatants or human shields, Ban said. Girls who spent a substantial period of time associated with the group reported to have been subject to sexual slavery and exploitation, including by being forcibly married to combatants. Some children were forced to use violence, including to kill their stanley cup friends or other children in the armed group
Ocua Torture inquiry is legally flawed, say rights groups as NGOs ponder boycott
Guardian readers have reacted with horror and distress to Rishi Sunaks plans to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work, in favour of work and health professionals .We received an unusually high level of responses to a callout asking people about their experiences of being signed off work and their thoughts regarding Sunaks proposals.Charlo stanley flask tte, a 35-year-old senior radiographer for the NHS, said that when she heard Sunaks speech, she felt a sense of panic . The thought of not being able to get signed off from work in the state I was in is terrifying. If Id not have been allowed to be signed off work by my GP, or had it been made harder I wouldnt be here. I needed urgent help and, via my GP, I got that it, she said.The Guardian view on disability, illness and work: there is no sicknote culture in Britain | EditorialRead more Until someone has a mental health crisis it is hard to comprehend how stanley mugs scary it is and how you are literally unable to function, let alone carry out your duties at work. Simply telling people to get on with it will lead to many more people being out of work long-term and, sadly, suicide will likely rise. A 43-year-old specialist teaching adviser, who asked to remain anonymous, also said she found Sunaks proposals terrifying . If Sunaks proposals had been in place when I had my breakd stanley deutschland own and GPs couldnt sign people off, then I would have lost my job years ago, had no career and wouldnt have been able to be making the valuable contribution I am t Wtwr Far right using coronavirus as excuse to attack Asians, say police
I agree with Martha Spurrier that this government is constructing for itself a legislative armoury that is intended to be a rewriting of the rules so only the government can win Who will stop human rights abuses if the government puts itself above the law , 14 December . There is, though, a flaw in the European conventio mugs stanley n on human rights. The right to liberty and security article 5 , the right to a fair trial article 6 , the right to respect for private and family life article 8 , freedom of thought, conscience and religion article 9 , freedom of expression article 10 , and freedom of assembly and association article 11 are all conditional rights.Variously, these are all 鈥?to a greater or lesser extent 鈥?subject to exceptions that are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic wellbeing of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. The universalism invoked in the name of human rights is empty as manifested in the ECHR and the Human Rights Act 1998, insofar as those stanley cup rights associated with free association, freedom of conscience etc are not absolute rights, but gifts of the state. The lesson to be drawn is that we onl Stanley cup website y get what we fight for, and the struggle to defend and extend our rights has to be conducted on the streets, as well as in parliament and the courts.The urgency of the situation and th
Ykti What made it into the Queen s speech, and what was left out
During a global pandemic, the effects we really feel are local. Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on communities, particularly poor communities. People have lost grandparents, parents and children, uncles, aunts, sisters and brothers. The daily government press conference reveals statistics but every single one is a person, a much-loved human being, not a faceless number or a component of a herd.Key workers in local government know this better than most. Councils have been absolutely critical to tackling the spread of coronavirus. Every day they maintain crucial services. They have set up community stanley cup hubs and have built on existing local teams. They provide food and shelter to people at risk, help local businesses stay afloat and have mobilised volunteers on a scale we have never seen before.Councils pandemic fight is hampered by central micromanagement | Richard VizeRead moreBut they could play an even greater role. As the government begins to talk of lockdown stanley cup lifting, its councils that are best placed to lead the next crucial stage: tracing and testing.Not only are councils naturally placed to respond quickly to the distinct needs, challenges and infection rates of their own area, but they are equipped with their own teams of public health professionals. All they need is the permission 鈥?and resources 鈥?from stanley spain Westminster.It would seem an obvious fit. Instead, in a pattern that is becoming all too familiar, the government has opted to centralise and outsource. Testing will Qygz Mark Kennedy knew of second undercover eco-activist
New data-handlin stanley tumblers g guidance now under consideration would require reporters to warn public figures at the beginning of an investigation and then destroy their notes and phone numbers afterwards, according to a report stanley cup canada in The Times.Media organisations have objected to the guidelines drawn up by the information commissioner s office ICO as a result of moves, at European Union and UK level, to introduce greater protection for individual privacy.They argue that the requirements would have a chilling effect on journalism, pointing out that public interest journalism is being defined too narrowly in the guidance while offering too great a protection for privac stanley puodelis y.As The Times s article states, the guidance does not take into account the day-to-day reality of journalism and could stifle investigations. The final document has been delayed until after the summer. But the subject will surely be raised when the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, appears on a panel next Monday in a debate about data protection.The event has been organised by the Media Society and will be hosted by ITN News at its London headquarters details here .News organisations are facing a growing number of requests from the subjects of their investigations for access to material they have gathered. They cite the data protection act DPA as justification.These subject access requests can be refused on the ground that information was obtained for journalistic reasons. But the subject
Like many people, I have had Covid and I have had long Covid. They are very different experiences. I first caught the disease at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, when its effects were relatively unknown. It was unnerving and highly unpredictable. I did not get particularly sick, but I probably gave the virus to my father, who did. Back then, Covid appeared to be the great divider 鈥?the old were far more at risk than the young, and those with pre-existing vulnerabilities most at risk of all 鈥?and the great equaliser. Almost everyone exp stanley quencher erienced the shock and the fea stanley us r of discovering a novel killer among us. We soon acquired a shared language and a sense of common purpose: to get through this together 鈥?whatever this turned out to be.I developed long Covid last year, six months after I had caught glandular fever. The fresh bout of the Covid virus made the effects of the glandular fever far worse: more debilitating and much harder to shake. Some mornings it was a struggle to get out of bed, never mind leave the house. It was as though Covid latched on to what was already wrong with me and gave it extra teeth. The experience was unpredictable in a very different way from the drama of getting sick in 2020: not a cosmic lottery, but a drawn-out bout of low-level, private misery. Good days were follow stanley website ed by bad days for no obvious reason, hopes of having recovered were snuffed out just when it seemed like the worst was past. Long Covid is less isolating than being locked down, Cnfd Belgium investigates right-to-die group offering suicide powder
The Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has kidnapped nearly 600 children in the past three years, forcing boys to take magical potions and turning girls into sex slaves, the UN has found.Some of the under-age recruits were used as fighters, human shields or spies stanley thermos for Kony s Lord s Resistance Army LRA , accordin stanley uk g to a report presented to the UN security council.Kony has evaded capture for nearly three decades, kidnapping thousands of children to fill the ranks of the LRA and terrorising local populations. He achieved global notoriety earlier this year when a US-based charity, Invisible Children, launched the Kony 2012 viral video campaign.On Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, submitted his first report to the security council detailing the LRA s crimes against children.Between July 2009 and February 2012, Kony s group kidnapped at least 591 children 鈥?268 girls and 323 boys 鈥?in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic CAR , the report found. Children reported that they were used in various capacities, as cooks, porters, guards, spies or directly in hostilities as combatants or human shields, Ban said. Girls who spent a substantial period of time associated with the group reported to have been subject to sexual slavery and exploitation, including by being forcibly married to combatants. Some children were forced to use violence, including to kill their stanley cup friends or other children in the armed group
Ocua Torture inquiry is legally flawed, say rights groups as NGOs ponder boycott
Guardian readers have reacted with horror and distress to Rishi Sunaks plans to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work, in favour of work and health professionals .We received an unusually high level of responses to a callout asking people about their experiences of being signed off work and their thoughts regarding Sunaks proposals.Charlo stanley flask tte, a 35-year-old senior radiographer for the NHS, said that when she heard Sunaks speech, she felt a sense of panic . The thought of not being able to get signed off from work in the state I was in is terrifying. If Id not have been allowed to be signed off work by my GP, or had it been made harder I wouldnt be here. I needed urgent help and, via my GP, I got that it, she said.The Guardian view on disability, illness and work: there is no sicknote culture in Britain | EditorialRead more Until someone has a mental health crisis it is hard to comprehend how stanley mugs scary it is and how you are literally unable to function, let alone carry out your duties at work. Simply telling people to get on with it will lead to many more people being out of work long-term and, sadly, suicide will likely rise. A 43-year-old specialist teaching adviser, who asked to remain anonymous, also said she found Sunaks proposals terrifying . If Sunaks proposals had been in place when I had my breakd stanley deutschland own and GPs couldnt sign people off, then I would have lost my job years ago, had no career and wouldnt have been able to be making the valuable contribution I am t Wtwr Far right using coronavirus as excuse to attack Asians, say police
I agree with Martha Spurrier that this government is constructing for itself a legislative armoury that is intended to be a rewriting of the rules so only the government can win Who will stop human rights abuses if the government puts itself above the law , 14 December . There is, though, a flaw in the European conventio mugs stanley n on human rights. The right to liberty and security article 5 , the right to a fair trial article 6 , the right to respect for private and family life article 8 , freedom of thought, conscience and religion article 9 , freedom of expression article 10 , and freedom of assembly and association article 11 are all conditional rights.Variously, these are all 鈥?to a greater or lesser extent 鈥?subject to exceptions that are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic wellbeing of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. The universalism invoked in the name of human rights is empty as manifested in the ECHR and the Human Rights Act 1998, insofar as those stanley cup rights associated with free association, freedom of conscience etc are not absolute rights, but gifts of the state. The lesson to be drawn is that we onl Stanley cup website y get what we fight for, and the struggle to defend and extend our rights has to be conducted on the streets, as well as in parliament and the courts.The urgency of the situation and th
Ykti What made it into the Queen s speech, and what was left out
During a global pandemic, the effects we really feel are local. Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on communities, particularly poor communities. People have lost grandparents, parents and children, uncles, aunts, sisters and brothers. The daily government press conference reveals statistics but every single one is a person, a much-loved human being, not a faceless number or a component of a herd.Key workers in local government know this better than most. Councils have been absolutely critical to tackling the spread of coronavirus. Every day they maintain crucial services. They have set up community stanley cup hubs and have built on existing local teams. They provide food and shelter to people at risk, help local businesses stay afloat and have mobilised volunteers on a scale we have never seen before.Councils pandemic fight is hampered by central micromanagement | Richard VizeRead moreBut they could play an even greater role. As the government begins to talk of lockdown stanley cup lifting, its councils that are best placed to lead the next crucial stage: tracing and testing.Not only are councils naturally placed to respond quickly to the distinct needs, challenges and infection rates of their own area, but they are equipped with their own teams of public health professionals. All they need is the permission 鈥?and resources 鈥?from stanley spain Westminster.It would seem an obvious fit. Instead, in a pattern that is becoming all too familiar, the government has opted to centralise and outsource. Testing will Qygz Mark Kennedy knew of second undercover eco-activist
New data-handlin stanley tumblers g guidance now under consideration would require reporters to warn public figures at the beginning of an investigation and then destroy their notes and phone numbers afterwards, according to a report stanley cup canada in The Times.Media organisations have objected to the guidelines drawn up by the information commissioner s office ICO as a result of moves, at European Union and UK level, to introduce greater protection for individual privacy.They argue that the requirements would have a chilling effect on journalism, pointing out that public interest journalism is being defined too narrowly in the guidance while offering too great a protection for privac stanley puodelis y.As The Times s article states, the guidance does not take into account the day-to-day reality of journalism and could stifle investigations. The final document has been delayed until after the summer. But the subject will surely be raised when the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, appears on a panel next Monday in a debate about data protection.The event has been organised by the Media Society and will be hosted by ITN News at its London headquarters details here .News organisations are facing a growing number of requests from the subjects of their investigations for access to material they have gathered. They cite the data protection act DPA as justification.These subject access requests can be refused on the ground that information was obtained for journalistic reasons. But the subject
