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Health Commissioner + SDG Advocate: Passed policies in 193 countries| Fellow | Founder |Board |Speaker

 
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    13 Oct 2018

    So proud of this piece for : "Decades of research show that when women are empowered, countries are more secure and more prosperous. None of this happens if a girl’s reproductive rights and educational opportunities remain unprotected."

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Ramadan Kareem 🌙 رمضان كريم Sending love and duas to you and your loved ones ❤️

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    22 hours ago

    Nonsense. For one, if you can’t tell the difference between a taser and a gun you shouldn’t be a cop.

    'Accidental discharge': The police chief in a Minneapolis suburb where a Black man was fatally shot during a traffic stop said Monday that he believes the officer who fired intended to use a Taser, not a handgun.
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    21 hours ago

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    23 hours ago

    One of my fervent prayers this and beyond is for us to collectively imagine and articulate theologies that begin with compassion as the point of departure—and for us to create institutions, communities and analytical frameworks that reflect this ethos in the real world.

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    20 hours ago

    tonight is the first night of Ramadan. a lot of Muslims, most of us Black, will be going out for Taraweeh prayer tonight. we’re supposed to be exempt from the 7pm curfew but ask yourself how Metro Police will respond to a bunch of Black Muslims on the streets after curfew...

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    Apr 8

    WATCH: A new lawsuit claims Windsor police officers drew guns, pepper-sprayed uniformed Army officer during traffic stop. More at 5 on

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  8. Apr 9

    Thank you for this recognition and your incredible leadership

    is a 32-year-old Libyan-Canadian physician, 's rights advocate and High-Level Commissioner on Health, Employment & Economic Growth.
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    Apr 9

    es una joven doctora de 32 años libio-canadiense, defensora de los derechos de las y comisionada de alto nivel de la para la salud, el empleo y el crecimiento económico.

    , , and 2 others
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    Apr 8

    “Gun violence in this country is an epidemic and it’s an international embarrassment” US President Joe Biden outlines a set of measures to tackle gun violence

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    Apr 7

    The term “fake news” entered the public lexicon circa 2016, during the US presidential election, when the internet was flooded with inaccurate information. Now, as explains, fact-checking is on the rise. More here: 1/7

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    Apr 7

    NEW: The global middle class shrank last year for the first time since the 1990s, with about 150 million people slipping down the economic ladder. These are some of their stories

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    Apr 7

    Seattle educator and activist, Jaiden Grayson, said the events of January 6 have held up a mirror to a troubling side of Seattle’s identity.

    A quote graphic with a quote from Seattle educator and activist, Jaiden Grayson, which reads, "If police officer potentially used community resources, taxpayer dollars, to make their way to one of the greatest breaches in national security that has ever happened in American history, it tells Seattle this is who we are."
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    Apr 7

    Seattle is reckoning with the news that at least 6 Seattle Police Department officers were in Washington D.C. on the day of the Capitol siege — the largest group of officers from a police department in the nation. Advocates say the problem runs deeper.👇

    A headline graphic, which reads, "'We're not keeping it a secret.' Seattle reckons with an investigation into six SPD officers who attended Trump's rally in Washington, DC, on January 6."
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    Apr 7

    healing generational trauma can't be just about therapy and challenging the stigma of mental illness in our communities, we need systemic change or we'll repeat the cycle.

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    Apr 6

    A JAMA podcast — whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine — is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race.

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    Apr 6

    🧵Harvard’s on Monday published the first study that examines the race and gender of those dying from COVID-19. The study found that Black women are dying from COVID at three times the rate of both White and Asian men in Georgia and Michigan.

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    Apr 6

    New U.N. rules on the trade of hazardous waste under the Basel Convention came into force on Jan. 1, intended to discourage the production of hard-to-recycle plastics and to prevent rich countries dumping trash in the developing world 3/4

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    Apr 7

    “Being forced to monetise your hobbies” isn’t really a standard millennial affliction, unless your hobby is delivering people takeaways or driving them around in your car

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    Apr 7

    People say stuff like “neoliberalism has forced us all to rely on personal branding as a means of economic survival 😞” as though that’s a generational malaise, rather than a fairly niche problem that applies to a handful of their friends who work in the creative industries

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