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positivedevelopment · 4 months ago

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Monthly Roundup February 2025

🇨🇦 Statement on International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers

Aid groups ask Canada to prevent child soldiers by rallying G7 heads around education

“Education is a fundamental pillar of violence prevention within the global security strategies of the international community,” Dallaire says.

"Every year, February 12th — Red Hand Day — stands as a global reminder that children should never be used as soldiers. It is a day to amplify their voices, demand justice, and declare together:

No child should be forced to fight. No child should be trafficked into war. No child should bear the scars of violence they did not create."

"The Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG) Task Force and their members stand together for Red Hand Day, calling for urgent, collective action to prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, support their release, and address their recovery and reintegration needs."

In simple words: ‘End the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict. Children must always be protected!’

This Red Hand Day, explore key tools and guidance to design and implement programmes for the prevention, release, and reintegration of CAAFAG HERE

"There is hope. Around the world, organizations, activists, and survivors are fighting for their freedom. Those who have escaped captivity are learning to heal, to dream again. With trauma care, education, and reintegration programs, former child soldiers are reclaiming their lives. But the fight isn’t over. Their voices must be heard. Their stories must be told. And that’s where you come in."

Dallaire Institute’s African Centre of Excellence Commemorates the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers (Red Hand Day) with Conference

The conference, which took place in Kigali, Rwanda, on February 19th & 20th, convened policymakers, subject matter experts, youth, and practitioners from civil society organizations, international organizations, and the regional members of security sector institutions.

Red Hand Day 2025: Historical Perspectives on Child Soldiers

"Between 2005 and 2022, more than 105,000 children are estimated to have been recruited and used in armed conflict around the world. Today, under-eighteens are involved in contemporary conflicts in Ukraine, Palestine, Syria, Ethiopia and elsewhere, navigating global norms of adulthood as they collide with local realities of militarism, resistance and survival."

"Historical research helps to reveal the longer-term structural, cultural and political factors that shape both children’s military recruitment and responses to it from local and international communities, as well as its relationship to other forms of child labour exploitation and youth violence. As we turn our attention to mark 2025’s Red Hand Day, the daily experiences of violence and instability plaguing children and adults alike around the world reminds us of the historically contingent realities that affect children’s participation in armed conflict."

How child soldiers heal after the trauma of war

Shadows into Light looks at the mental health of Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers.

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Learn more here: A Life Among Elephants

Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study

"African elephants have experienced serious losses in contemporary times (between 1964 and 2016). The average population trend for African savanna elephants was a decline of 70%. Forest elephant populations declined by over 90%. While declines in the species had been widely recognised, understanding of the overall magnitude and regional context was lacking until now."

Fourth Asian Elephant Range States meeting concludes with the launch of declaration for Asian elephant conservation

"Government representatives from 13 Asian elephant range countries, along with members of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) and the Center for Species Survival (CSS) Asian Elephant, convened for the Fourth Asian Elephant Range States Meeting, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from 5-7 February 2025."

"The meeting concluded with the launch of the 2025 Siem Reap Declaration for Asian Elephant Conservation, reaffirming the commitment of participating countries to continued regional collaboration. Expanding on the foundation of the 2022 Kathmandu Declaration, this new Declaration provides a comprehensive framework for range-wide conservation efforts, ensuring the long-term protection of wild elephant populations and their habitats across Asia. Access the Seam Reap Declaration here."

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ranakaushal · 1 year ago

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International Conference of Indian Association for South Asian Studies on Subalterns in South Asia Held at KIIT

A two-day International Conference of the Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) on Subalterns in South Asia, organized jointly by the Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences (CASSS), New Delhi, and KIIT-DU, was held on June 21–22, 2024. Prof. Alain Désoulières from Sorbonne Université, Paris, delivered the keynote address, in which he spoke about two subaltern classes, lascars and sipāhis, during the 18th Century Anglo-French war. Prof. Namhyun Kim, Associate Professor at Dongguk University WISE from South Korea, spoke about the importance of sustainable tourism and its relevance in modern times.

The first plenary session featured talks on the “Tour-Dour Model of South Korea and its Role in Developing the Subaltern Population Depending on Tourism as a Source of Income” by Prof. Namhyun Kim, and “Footprints Left by Subaltern Groups of the Maharashtra Salt Producing Community in the History of India” by Prof. Binda D. Paranjape, Dean and Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. Dr. Deepanjali Mishra, Associate Professor at KIIT-DU and convener of the conference, chaired the session.

Prof. Puneet Yadav from University of Delhi delivered a talk on how the subalterns are reflected in Hindi movies and Prof. Indira Prasad, from Miranda House, University of Delhi spoke about Bhikari Thakur, popularly known as Shakespeare of Bhojpuri literature, at the Plenary Session-II on the second day of the conference. The session was chaired by Dr. Ashutosh Kumar.

During the valedictory session, Dr. Sudarshan Nanda, Prof. of Eminence & Research Chair at KIIT-DU, praised the paper presenters and organizers for the successful conduct of the conference. Dr. Shyam Sundar Behura, Additional Registrar at KIIT-DU, also spoke on the occasion. Dr. Ananya Mitra and Dr. Smrutirekha Mohanty, members of the organizing committee, conducted the feedback session at the end. The vote of thanks for the conference was proposed by Dr. Deepanjali Mishra and Dr. Ashutosh Kumar.

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yashallied · 2 years ago

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Asia Events Industry Expected to Reach $567.10 billion by 2026—Allied Market Research

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Asia Events Industry Market by Type, Revenue Source, Organizer and Age Group: Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019–2026,” The Asia events industry size was valued at $273.80 billion in 2018, and is projected to reach $567.10 billion in 2026, registering a CAGR of 9.2%.

The term event refers to organizing a show, which involves public gathering at a predetermined place and time. The most popular events include conference & exhibition, corporate events & seminar, promotion & fundraising, music & art performance, sports, festival, trade shows, product launch, and similar others. The initial stage of a major event involves understanding the audience and their behavior that excite and emotionally engage them. The final stage involves conducting an event appropriately.

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In 2018, depending on type, the corporate events & seminars segment garnered the maximum share in the events industry, owing to rise in number of companies and frequent seminars & events conducted by them. In addition, such seminars and events involve interaction between speaker and audience, thus attracting more attendees, which propelled the growth of the segment.

However, the festivals, especially music festival, segment is anticipated to grow at the highest CAGR of 5.0% during the forecast period. This is attributed to increase in popularity of such events among the Asian population, especially the youth and middle-aged individuals, which boosts the growth of the events industry. Furthermore, such music concerts and events offer valuable opportunities for promoters and brands to align themselves with people attending concerts, which in turn drive the Asia events industry growth

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According to the current Asia events industry trends, the industry has been segmented by age group, the 21–40 years segment contributed the maximum revenue in 2018, owing to increase in interest toward entrepreneur & business seminars and conferences that offer proper guideline & direction to the youth for establishing start-ups along with arrangement of music concerts and festive gatherings.

Country wise, China was the highest revenue contributor in 2018, as this country has been successful in winning conferences of international associations with over half of the top cities selected as destinations for international association conferences. This is attributed to consistent increase in sports events and music festivals in China rise in popularity of the Olympic & commonwealth games and music concerts.

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Depending on revenue source, the sponsorship segment accounted for highest share in 2018, and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.1% from 2019 to 2026.

By organizer, the corporate segment was the major shareholder in 2018, and is projected to register a CAGR of 10.7% from 2019 to 2026.

As per age group, the 21–40 years segment led the market in 2018, and is expected to continue this trend in the coming future.

Country wise, China accounted for about highest Asia events industry share in 2018, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.5%.

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fearlessleaders23 · 2 years ago

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Regional Geopolitics by India’s Involvement in SCO

by Col (Dr) Shantonu Roy Introduction

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, or Shanghai Pact, an Eurasian political, economic, international security and defence organization established by China and Russia in 2001. The SCO currently comprises eight Member States (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). It is the world's largest regional organization in terms of geographic scope and population, covering approximately 60% of the area of Eurasia, 40% of the world population. As of 2021, its combined GDP was around 20% of global GDP.

The SCO is the successor to the Shanghai Five, formed in 1996 between the People's Republic of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, and Tajikistan. In June 2001, the leaders of these nations and Uzbekistan met in Shanghai to announce a new organization with deeper political and economic cooperation. In June 2017, it expanded to eight states, with India and Pakistan. Iran joined the group in July 2023. Several countries are engaged as observers or dialogue partners. The SCO is governed by the Heads of State Council (HSC), its supreme decision-making body, which meets once a year. The organization also contains the so-called Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS).

In 2001, the annual summit returned to Shanghai and the group was institutionalized. The five member nations first admitted Uzbekistan in the Shanghai Five mechanism. On 15 June 2001, all six heads of state signed the Declaration of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, praising the role played thus far by the Shanghai Five mechanism and aiming to transform it to a higher level of cooperation. From 2001 to 2008, the SCO developed rapidly, establishing a number of permanent bodies and adhoc initiatives dealing with economic and security matters. In July 2015, in Ufa, Russia, the SCO decided to admit India and Pakistan as full members. In June 2016 in Tashkent, both signed the memorandum of obligations, thereby starting the process of joining the SCO. In June 2017, at a summit in Kazakhstan, India and Pakistan officially joined SCO as full members.

In 2004 the SCO established relations with the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2005, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2005, the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2007, the Economic Cooperation Organization in 2007, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2011, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in 2014, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in 2015. in 2018, SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) has established relations with the African Union's African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT). The United States applied for observer status in the SCO, but was rejected in 2005.

Regional Dynamics

Basically, it was felt that China created the SCO for curbing Russia’s dominance in the area. But, the heads of the member states point out that, against the backdrop of a contradictory process of globalisation, multilateral cooperation, which is based on the principles of equal right and mutual respect, non-intervention in internal affairs of sovereign states, non-confrontational way of thinking and consecutive movement towards democratisation of international relations, contributes to overall peace and security, and they collectively call upon the international community, irrespective of its differences in ideology and social structure, to form a new concept of security based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and interaction. It is trying to provide an unique opportunity to take part in the process of forming a fundamentally new model of geopolitical integration. The SCO was not a platform for resolving bilateral issues, and its members were also reluctant to mediate disputes multilaterally. Due to the widely divergent agendas among member states, Indian commentators even called it the "Shanghai Contradiction Organisation".

The SCO's main achievement this far is to have offered its members a cooperative forum to balance their conflicting interests and to ease bilateral tensions. It has built up joint capabilities and has agreed on common approaches in the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism. However, major shortcomings, such as institutional weaknesses, a lack of common financial funds for the implementation of joint projects and conflicting national interests have prevented the SCO from achieving a higher level of regional cooperation in other areas.

India’s Involvement

India has steadfastly used its diplomatic capital to campaign for strengthening cooperation and used the SCO platform to collaborate with regional counterparts. In 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Qingdao, China, coined the acronym SECURE to highlight the pressing regional challenges facing the SCO, where S stands for security of citizens, E – economic development for all, C – connecting the region, U – uniting the people, R – respect for sovereignty and integrity, and E for environmental protection.

India has been sensitising the influential members of SCO on Pakistan’s state-sponsored terrorism. The dreaded global and regional terror outfits, such as al-Qaeda, Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) to secure the SCO and greater Eurasian region from these radical extremist forces. The issue resonates with China, Russia and Central Asian Republics (CARs), which are facing increasing threats. Another common challenge to the SCO region is the illicit drug trade emanating from the Af-Pak region. In 2021, more than 80 per cent of opium and heroin supplies originated from Afghanistan via different routes to the global opium market. The greater involvement of terror outfits in the narcotic trade has sprung new geo-political challenges to the SCO. It has become a significant funding source for anti-state activities by the region’s dreaded terror groups and radical Islamists. India has been trying to garner support for putting an end to all these.

This year the summit which was held virtually at Delhi had the highlights

The New Delhi Declaration was signed by the member nations, which states that the international community must come together to "counter the activities of terrorist, separatist and extremist groups, paying special attention to preventing the spread of religious intolerance, aggressive nationalism, ethnic and racial discrimination, xenophobia, ideas of fascism and chauvinism."

Joint Statements:

The leaders adopted two thematic joint statements - one on cooperation in countering the radicalisation leading to separatism, extremism, and terrorism and the second one cooperation in the field of digital transformation.

New Pillars of Cooperation:

India has created five new pillars and focus area for cooperation in the SCO, which include,

Startups and Innovation

Traditional Medicine

Youth Empowerment

Digital Inclusion

Shared Buddhist Heritage

India's Reservations on BRI:

India refused to be part of the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) of the SCO members’ economic strategy statement, mentioning “interested member states’.India's opposition to the BRI stems from its inclusion of projects in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK), which India considers a violation of its sovereignty.

Conclusion

Last but not least, there continues to be a perception in the West that SCO is an anti-West forum. However, India’s growing economic and political stature at the global level in the era of multi-vector foreign policy has made New Delhi a potential player in turning SCO into a development oriented organisation in Eurasia rather than an anti-west alliance. That is why New Delhi has been stressing maintaining peace and security based on UN Charter provisions to ensure the collective prosperity of the region.

India has advocated win-win cooperation within the SCO for regional or trans-regional connectivity, regional security and defence collaboration, combating state-sponsored terrorism, and a peaceful, prosperous Afghanistan with an inclusive government and peaceful global order without rival blocks. The challenge for New Delhi, going forward, will remain one of using its substantial diplomatic capital toward making the Eurasian region a driver of economic growth and prosperity within the ambit of SCO.

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cardstumble · 4 years ago

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Jakarta Indonesia is the MOST environmentally vulnerable city in the world - climate change, pollution, heatwaves, earthquakes, flooding.

https://weather.com/en-IN/india/videos/video/asia-hosts-99-of-the-worlds-100-most-environmentally-vulnerable-cities

Jakarta is the “worst-performing city in the ranking”, followed by India’s Delhi – each of which houses more than 10 million people – in a study of the world’s 576 largest cities conducted by United Kingdom-based business risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.

Indonesia’s financial hub and most densely-populated city scored particularly bad in terms of air pollution, earthquakes and flooding. The report noted that Bandung and Surabaya were also among the world’s top 10 most environmentally vulnerable cities. “With rising emissions driving weather-related risk and populations growing in many cities across the developing world, the risks to citizens, real assets and commercial operations are only going to rise,” wrote Verisk Maplecroft head of environment and climate change Will Nichols of the report published on Wednesday. A case in point, flooding in Jakarta in 2020 forced more than 34,000 residents to leave their homes and, according to Indonesian Entrepreneurs Association (Hippi) chair Sarman Simanjorang, cost an estimated Rp 1 trillion (US$70.05 million) in economic losses as stores were closed and supply chains disrupted. Acting Jakarta Environment Agency head Syarifudin said traffic congestion and air and water pollution were common in large cities worldwide. The Jakarta administration has implemented measures to curb these problems, but cooperation with neighboring regions remains important, he added. “Controlling water pollution in rivers, for example, requires the Depok, Bekasi, Bogor [West Java] and Tangerang [Banten] administrations to curb water pollution in their respective areas because our rivers are connected,” he said on Sunday. Jakarta’s environmental risk is so dire that Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo admitted in 2019 that it was one of the main reasons the government wanted to move the country’s capital to East Kalimantan. “We need to stop overwhelming Jakarta with overpopulation, traffic congestion and water and air pollution. We have to tackle these problems,” Jokowi said at a press conference at Merdeka Palace on Aug. 26, 2019. Greenpeace Southeast Asia climate and energy campaigner Tata Mustasya said on Saturday that the government’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions was key to mitigating Jakarta’s environmental and climate risks. Indonesia, as per its commitment to the landmark Paris Agreement, has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 29 percent relative to a business-as-usual scenario by 2030, but many researchers are skeptical as to the country’s chances of success, mainly due to its growing use of fossil fuels. In March, the Environment and Forestry Ministry announced that the government was planning to set a net-zero emissions target for 2070. “Indonesia’s commitment toward net zero emissions is, so far, set for 2070, which would be too late, because climate change would devastate people’s livelihoods by then, especially those living in vulnerable areas like Jakarta,” he told The Jakarta Post via phone call. Meanwhile, Rujak Center for Urban Studies executive director Elisa Sutanudjaja urged the Jakarta administration to tighten regulations related to the city’s transportation industry to curb air pollution. The city’s policy, as embodied by the Jakarta Cleaner Air program, assumes that motorized vehicles contribute the largest share to Jakarta’s air pollution at 46 percent. Thus, Jakarta has launched several programs to curb transportation pollution, such as by expanding public transportation and implementing no-emission zones. “For regional administrations, the easiest and fastest mitigation solution is intervening in the transportation and mobility sector,” she said. Notably, environmental groups, such as the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), have challenged the city’s assumptions with maps showing that most pollution comes from coal-fired power plants in the neighboring provinces of Banten and West Java. Most Viewed Jakarta ranked world’s most environmentally vulnerable city Suns coach Williams earns coaches honour after Phoenix revival Still gliding: My Bloody Valentine's Shields talks new albums, Southeast Asian sounds How to lose belly fat in seven days Indonesia suspends AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine batch after death Ita Martadinata: Remembering the victims of the May 1998

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riseofthecommonwoodpile · 5 years ago

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some quick thoughts on Michael Schmidt’s Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism aka I Fucking Hated This Book:

(and also I’m kinda sick and my adhd meds are wearing off for the day so this will be poorly written, sorry)

I picked up Cartography because it seemed like a short but global history of anarchist movements from the 1860′s to today, which sounds great! I’m an anarchist, I like history, what could go wrong? and what i found was genuinely one of the worst books i’ve read in years. i’ve thought about formatting this into a proper review, but no one really cares, so let’s do bullet points:

—the most immediately obvious and glaring problem is that Schmidt treats Marxism as if it is an equal (or sometimes implied to be even greater) enemy to anarchists than capitalism. he at one point literally does the “fascism was bad, but the USSR was just as bad” lib thing, and it comes across as completely ideologically blinded. i am well aware of the ways in which anarchists have been treated under centralized communist states, and let’s just say i am Not A Fan, but even thinking about that, the fact that the only opposition to anarchism we hear about regularly is marxist-leninist opposition, and not fucking CAPITALIST OPPOSITION, skews it into the most blindly and dumbly polemical shit i’ve read since, ironically, Lenin’s State and Revolution —every time he says Maoism he puts it in scare quotes? “Maoism”. it’s silly —he claims that anarcho-syndicalism is the most influential and powerful leftist movement and idea of the 20th century, which like....... —by “anarchism”, he means, specifically, anarcho-syndicalism and revolutionary syndicalism, even that which is not explicitly anarchist. he says anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism are the same thing, basically, so we’ll just call them both anarcho-syndicalism, and also any anarchism that doesn’t follow Bakunin isn’t really anarchism, the only way forward for anarchism is through platformism, and all other forms of anarchism are individualist and don’t care about class struggle. i don’t even need to get into how absurd that all is. even if you agree with it, that shit has to be defended, it is not self-evident as he treats it —the history is both a.) bad and b.) terribly written. this comes across in three main ways: one, there is an equation of all union efforts with anarcho-syndicalism, which, yes, was very influential on union organizing throughout the world (and continues to be very influential), but that equivalence is just not helpful or explanatory. it’s clearly just polemic to make it seem like there were more influential and powerful anarchist groups in the world than there actually were. two, he just throws out numbers for the sizes of some of these groups, and the vast, VAST majority of the time gives no context for them. he will say X group in Uruguay had X amount of members in 1935...but i have no idea if that’s a lot or a little. what percentage of workers in this industry was that? what percentage of the population? how did that compare with other political groups in that same time and place? without context these numbers mean literally nothing. and beyond that, some of the groups he talks about are so tiny and dissolved so quickly that it feels a lot of the time like i’m reading a brief history of global communism that included, in the 8 pages of actual history from 1990-today, an entire paragraph about every splinter group of the US red guards —three, and this one requires its own bullet point because of how much it sucked to read, he goes into way too much detail for the space he’s given himself, and there is no reasonable way for him to adequately discuss or give even an impression of every group he brings up. for example, in the 15 history-focused pages for what he called the “third wave” from 1924-1949 (and these are small pages too, about 4 1/2″ x 7 1/4″, like the size of a sci-fi paper back but with regular medium size text), the following groups are brought up and given abbreviations:

AAUD (General Workers’ Union of Germany)

AAU-E (General Labor Union- Unity Organization)

ACAT (American Continental Workingmen’s Association

ACF (Anarchist Communist Federation)

AFB (Anarchist Federation of Britain)

AFD (German Anarchist Federation)

AFP (Anarchist Federation of Poland)

CCRA (Continental Commission of Anarchist Relations)

CGIL (General Confederation of Italian Workers)

CGIL (General Italian Workers’ Federation) [Yes, they have the same abbreviation, because they are the same thing, but are presented twice with slightly different names and given abbreviations both times]

CGT (General Confederation of Labor, given in a previous chapter but I had to google)

CIA (Anarchist International Commission)

CLU (Conference of Labor Unions)

CNT (National Confederation of Labor)

CNT-DG (General Delegation of the CNT)

CRIA (Anarchist International Relations Commission)

EAAF (East Asian Anarchist Federation)

FAF (Francophone Anarchist Federation)

FAGPL (Federation of Anarchist-Communist Groups of Poland and Lithuania)

FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation)

FAKB (Anarchist Communists of Bulgaria)

FAU (Free Worker’s Union)

FAUD (Free Workers Union of Germany)

FdCAI (Federation of Italian Anarchist Communes)

FFLU (Federation of Free Labor Unions)

FFS (Federation of Libertarian Socialists)

FFSB (Federation of Free Society Builders)

FG (Free Trade Unions)

FIJL (Libertarian Youth Federation of Iberia)

FISR (International Revolutionary Syndicalist Federation)

FKAD (Federation of Communist Anarchists of Germany)

FORV (Venezuelan Regional Workers’ Federation)

FvDG (Free Association of German Trade Unions

GAK (Group of Anarchist Communists, defined in a previous chapter but I had to google just now)

GFP (General Worker’s Federation)

HCH (General League of Koreans)

IFA (Presented without definition, I think defined in a previous chapter but google says it stands for International of Anarchist Federations, but that doesn’t make sense because that was formed in the late 60′s, way after this and the previous chapters, so idk)

IWA (International Workers Association, given in a previous chapter and presented in this one without explanation but that I know of through outside knowledge)

IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, same as previous entry)

JAC (Japanese Anarchist Club)

JAF (Japanese Anarchist Federation)

JJLL (Libertarian Youth)

KACF (Korean Anarchist Communist Federation)

KAF (Korean Anarchist Federation)

KAF-C (Korean Anarchist Federation in China)

KAF-M (Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria)

KRF (Korean Revolutionist Federation)

KSS (Black Front Society)

KYFSC (Korean Youth Federation in South China)

LSC (Libertarian Socialist Council)

MLNA (North African Libertarian Movement)

OVB (Independent League of Trade Unions)

POI (Italian Worker’s Party)

PSAR (Revolutionary Anarchist Socialist Party

PSI (Italian Socialist Party)

RPAU (Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, presented without definition but defined in a previous chapter and I know of through outside knowledge. Of note, I almost never hear this referred to like this. Everyone says The Black Army)

RR (Worker’s Solidarity)

RRU (Worker’s Solidarity Movement)

SPD (Marxist Social Democratic Party)

SPIRA (Provisional Secretariat on International Relations)

SWF (Syndicalist Worker’s Federation)

UAI (Italian Anarchist Union)

UCAI (Union of Communist Anarchists of Italy)

USI (Italian Syndicalist Union)

VB (Free Union)

ZK (Kronstadt Accords)

ZSP (Polish Syndicalist Union)

ZZZ (Union of Trade Unions)

bruh I am not joking, he brings all of these up in 15 pages and it seems like you are expected to be able to both remember them and keep track of them as you read, although i’m almost certain a great deal of them are given an abbreviation, mentioned in one sentence, and then never mentioned again. however, i can not promise you that, because you KNOW i could not keep this shit straight or remember any of it.

anyways i am so fucking fed up typing all of those that i don’t want to do this anymore. the book fucking sucks, don’t get it.

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newstfionline · 4 years ago

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Friday, March 12, 2021

Rich, developing nations wrangle over COVID vaccine patents (Reuters) Richer members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) blocked a push by over 80 developing countries on Wednesday to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations. South Africa and India renewed their bid to waive rules of the WTO’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement, a move that could allow generic or other manufacturers to make more vaccines. South Africa argued the current TRIPS system does not work, pointing to the failure to secure life-saving medicines during the HIV/AIDS pandemic that had cost at least 11 million African lives. Medecins Sans Frontieres in October put together a letter signed by over 375 civil society organisations supporting the waiver. The South Africa and India proposal was backed by dozens of largely developing countries at the WTO, but opposed by Western countries, including Britain, Switzerland, EU nations and the United States, which have large domestic pharmaceutical industries.

US reports surge of kids at SW border, a challenge for Biden (AP) The number of migrant children and families seeking to cross the U.S. southwest border has surged to levels not seen since before the pandemic, a challenge for President Joe Biden. Statistics released Wednesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection showed the number of children and families increased by more than 100% between January and February. Kids crossing by themselves rose 60% to more than 9,400, forcing the government to look for new places to hold them temporarily. The surge has been seized on by Republicans and former President Donald Trump as a line of attack on Biden, though his administration is turning back nearly all single adults, who make up the majority of border-crossers, under a public health order imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Biden administration is temporarily holding children and families, mostly from Central America, for several days. They are generally then allowed to enter the U.S. while authorities evaluate their claims to asylum or see if they have any other legal right to stay in the country. It is a challenge for an administration that has been working to restore an asylum system largely dismantled under Trump and likely to face increasing pressure. Factors driving the increase include widespread hunger in Central America due to recent hurricanes, the economic upheaval of the pandemic and more fundamental social problems dating back years.

Brazil hospitals buckle (AP) Brazil’s hospitals are faltering as a highly contagious coronavirus variant tears through the country, the president insists on unproven treatments and the only attempt to create a national plan to contain COVID-19 has just fallen short. Piaui state’s Gov. Wellington Dias told The Associated Press that, unless pressure on hospitals is eased, growing numbers of patients will have to endure the disease without a hospital bed or any hope of treatment in an intensive care unit. “We have reached the limit across Brazil; rare are the exceptions,” Dias, who leads the governors’ forum, said. “The chance of dying without assistance is real.” Those deaths have already started. In Brazil’s wealthiest state, Sao Paulo, at least 30 patients died this month while waiting for ICU beds, according to a tally published Wednesday by the news site G1. In southern Santa Catarina state, 419 people are waiting for transfer to ICU beds. In neighboring Rio Grande do Sul, ICU capacity is at 106%.

Athens tackles heat and pollution with pocket-sized parks (Reuters) Tucked between rows of apartment blocks on an Athens street, a strip of green with a few trees, some plants and a bench offers a breathing space in the surrounding crush of concrete. The Greek capital has started creating “pocket parks”, transforming small plots once ridden with garbage and weeds, in a bid to tackle its chronic pollution. “It’s about creating green spaces, lowering the temperatures, giving quality of life and creating new reference points inside the city,” Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said. “It lets us breathe a bit, because the way we are here ... we are suffocating,” said 65-year-old Dimitra from the densely populated neighbourhood of Kypseli.

Myanmar’s searing smartphone images flood a watching world (AP) The images ricochet across the planet, as so many do in this dizzying era of film it, upload it, tell it to the world: scenes from a protest-turned-government crackdown, captured at ground level by smartphone users on the streets of Myanmar. Images shot across barricades and furtively through windows. From behind bushes and through smudged car windshields. Horizontal video. Vertical video. Video captured by people running toward chaos and away from it. People shouting. People helping. People demanding. People dying. It is a dynamic completely unlike the uprising that spread through the Southeast Asian nation in the pre-internet, pre-smartphone summer of 1988. Then, when student-led demonstrations were violently put down by the government, cementing Myanmar’s global notoriety as an isolated, repressive state, it took months, even years, for the outside world to understand the full story of what had happened. This time around, the imagery is plentiful and unsettling. Filmed by participants on the ground and uploaded, sometimes immediately, the protests and crackdowns are reaching millions of handheld devices around the planet, also almost immediately. It’s a vivid example of a technological truism in an age when capturing images has become utterly democratized: If you can glimpse it up close, you’re more likely to pay attention.

Most Americans support tough stance toward China on human rights, economic issues (Pew Research Center) Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. adults (89%) consider China a competitor or enemy, rather than a partner, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Many also support taking a firmer approach to the bilateral relationship, whether by promoting human rights in China, getting tougher on China economically or limiting Chinese students studying abroad in the United States. Americans rarely brought up the Chinese people or the country’s long history and culture in their responses. Instead, they focused primarily on the Chinese government—including its policies or how it behaves internationally—as well as its economy.

Ten years on, Japan mourns victims of earthquake, Fukushima nuclear disaster (Reuters) Japan on Thursday mourned nearly 20,000 victims of a massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan 10 years ago, destroying towns and triggering nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Huge waves triggered by the 9.0-magnitude quake—one of the strongest on record—crashed into the northeastern coast, crippling the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant and forcing more than 160,000 residents to flee as radiation spewed into the air. The government has spent about $300 billion (32.1 trillion yen) to rebuild the tsunami-devastated region, but areas around the Fukushima plant remain off-limits, worries about radiation levels linger and many who left have settled elsewhere. Decommissioning of the crippled plant will take decades and billions of dollars. The disaster has also left survivors in Tohoku struggling to overcome the grief of losing families and whole communities to the waves in a few frightening hours on the afternoon of March 11, 2011.

Lebanon’s politicians show no sign of saving their country, France says (Reuters) France’s foreign minister said on Thursday time was running out to prevent Lebanon collapsing and that he could see no sign that the country’s politicians were doing what they could to save it. France has spearheaded international efforts to rescue the former French protectorate from its deepest crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war by trying to use Paris’ historical influence to persuade squabbling politicians to adopt a reform roadmap and form a new government to unlock international aid. “I would be tempted to qualify Lebanese politicians as guilty of not helping a country in danger,” Jean-Yves le Drian told a news conference in Paris. “They all committed to act to create an inclusive government and committed to implementing indispensable reforms. That was seven months ago and nothing is moving. I think it’s not too late, but the delays are very small before collapse.”

UN food aid chief visits Yemen, fears famine (AP) The head of the U.N. food agency warned after a visit to Yemen that his underfunded organization may be forced to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off widespread famine in coming months, describing conditions in the war-stricken nation as “hell.” The World Food Program needs at least $815 million in Yemen aid over the next six months, but has only $300 million, the agency’s executive director, David Beasley, told The Associated Press in an interview. He said the agency would need another $1.9 billion to meet targets for the year. Beasley visited Yemen earlier this week, including the capital of Sanaa which is under the control of Iran-backed Houthi rebels. He said that at a child malnutrition ward in a Sanaa hospital he saw children wasting away from lack of food. Many, he said, were on the brink of death from entirely preventable and treatable causes, and they were the lucky ones who were receiving medical care. He said the world needs to wake up to how bad things have gotten in Yemen, particularly for the country’s youngest.

Shock and uncertainty after death of Ivory Coast PM Bakayoko (Reuters) Ivory Coast faced shock and uncertainty on Thursday following the death of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, the West African nation’s second premier to die in office in less than eight months. A close ally of President Alassane Ouattara, Bakayoko, who died of cancer a few days after his 56th birthday, was appointed prime minister in July 2020 after the death of his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ouattara’s handpicked successor. A central figure in Ivorian politics over the past two decades as the country was plunged into a prolonged conflict and a partition, Bakayoko, a jovial character with roots in media and showbiz, emerged as a conciliatory figure, able to talk to all sides of the conflict. His capacity to gain the trust of all sides including former rebel soldiers who staged a series of mutinies in 2017, threatening a fragile peace in the world’s top cocoa producing nation, saw him appointed as defence minister in 2017, and kept the portfolio when he became prime minister.

Nuclear power (Scientific American) Nuclear power is waning, but not for the typical fears. Rather, other ways of generating electricity have just become cheaper and more available. Nuclear power in 2020 accounted for about 19 percent of U.S. electricity needs, a figure that by 2050 is projected to slip to 11 percent according to the Energy Information Administration. Nuclear power is over half of low-carbon electricity generation in the U.S., and is about 30 percent of the world’s low-carbon electricity. The coming years will determine how much nuclear power will play a role in the energy future, as new demos of small modular reactors begin to roll out in the United States.

Tiny internal cameras (Times of London) Thousands of NHS patients will be given tiny cameras to swallow to check for cancer in a new national trial. The technology, in a pill-sized capsule, takes images as it passes through the bowel and beams them to a recording device worn on a belt and shoulder bag. It can then be flushed away. Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that the “ingenious” capsule cameras would allow more people to undergo cancer investigations quickly and safely.

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200 queens found in single 'murder hornet' nest destroyed by US authorities

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200 queens found in single 'murder hornet' nest destroyed by US authorities

After months of searching, in October scientists located and destroyed the first nest of giant ‘murder hornets’ ever discovered in the US, eradicating a hidden enclave of the invasive insects concealed in a tree in Washington State, close to the Canadian border.

While the discovery and elimination of the nest is considered a victory by state and federal authorities – who are striving to prevent the Asian giant hornet from establishing a foothold in North America – a post-mortem of the hornets’ former home provides a sobering perspective on the scale of the bug threat we’re up against.

After tracking down the nest with an ingenious radio tag ploy, entomologists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) vacuumed dozens of hornets out of the tree in which it was found, then cut the tree open to reveal the nest hidden inside, measuring about 35 centimetres long and 23 centimetres wide (14 by 9 inches).

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That might not sound too large, but it turns out it’s capacious enough to barrack a veritable army of murder hornets, capable of spawning a significant wave of subsequent invasion and colonisation.

Inside the nest, the researchers tallied 76 adult queens. Almost all but one of these were likely virgin queens – imminent matriarchs which eventually emerge from the nest, mate, and then leave the area to start a new colony elsewhere after winter has passed.

In addition, 108 capped cells with pupae were found, most of which the entomologists think would also have been virgin queens in development.

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In other words, this one single nest – which took months for authorities to track down – contained the seeds of around 200 potential new colonies, if nature were to have had its way and scientists hadn’t intervened.

“We got there just in the nick of time,” WSDA entomologist Sven-Erik Spichiger told media during a virtual press conference on the developments.

“When you see … a relatively small nest like this able to pump out 200 queens, it does give one a little bit of pause.”

Beyond the 200 queens, the researchers found 112 workers, nine drones, 190 larvae, and six unhatched eggs. All up, about 500 hornets were associated with the nest, many of which would have been capable of creating new nests.

Of course, just because this particular nest has been dealt with, it’s possible other nests are already in existence, and that insects from this nest may have escaped before and during the eradication.

“We believe there are additional nests,” Spichiger said. “There is no way to be certain we got them all.”

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While it’s unclear how the Asian giant hornet got to North America, sightings in both the US and Canada since 2019 have put agricultural authorities on high alert, given the hornet has a tendency to slaughter local bee populations, which is where the ‘murder’ nickname comes from (it is not typically aggressive toward humans).

Despite the recent success of the WSDA’s eradication, nobody in the entomology community is claiming outright victory here.

Even if the stateside presence has been expunged – which is perhaps unlikely – a spate of sightings over the border in British Columbia in recent weeks suggests the hornet may already be dispersed in the region.

In other words, the battle might be over, but the war has just begun – and continued vigilance from authorities and local citizens reporting hornet sightings will be the best chance of winning it. In the meantime, optimism is a virtue.

“From accounts we have, we’re very close to having the majority of them,” Spichiger said in reference to the queen bees captured so far. “But I can’t give you an absolute, certainly, that we got every single one from the nest.”

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Asia Pacific Stevie Awards

Prince Group under the leadership of Chen Zhi Cambodia certainly one of Cambodia's biggest and fastest developing conglomerates, has emerged as a silver winner inside the 8th annual Asia-pacific Stevie awards inside the COVID-19 corporate response class. Prince institution Prince Group Cambodia became the most effective company from Cambodia identified in a category searching for to apprehend excellence in COVID-19-associated disaster control by Asian corporate. The Asia-pacific Stevie awards Chen Zhi Prince Group are the simplest commercial enterprise awards software to recognize innovation inside the place of job across all 29 international locations inside the Asia-pacific place.

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Asia Events Industry Expected to Reach $567.10 billion by 2026—Allied Market Research

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Bitmap (Christine Kim) has its roots in the classic snake game ubiquitous on last-century cellphones. Cuddlegeddon (Gillian Blekkenhorst), an amusing look at communication in relationships, is a quirky variation on Pong. Une semaine de bonté: The Game (Julia Ediger) is a concentration-style memory matcher that uses the surrealistic art of Max Ernst. Both the charming mythology-inflected Golden Fall (Yuliya Boublikova) and the sardonic sixties-styled Having It All (Miriam Verburg) are two-dimensional platform games. Several of the games have immediately recognizable mechanics. Now, after an intense six weeks, six new games and six new creators have emerged. Faber and Carver co-ran Jeuxly with the help of many volunteers. “That incubator, as well as Jeuxly, was heavily based on the Difference Engine Initiative incubator model, and resulted in eight games.” In March, Zoe moved to Boston, and Jennie Faber and Alex Leitch stepped in to fill her shoes as co-directors. “Zoe and I co-ran DMG Toronto’s first incubator, JAMuary, in January 2012 with significant support from Henry and Jennie,” Carver continued. Through that conference they met many of DMG Toronto’s future supporters and collaborators, including Henry and Jennie Faber, who were just getting ready to open Bento Miso. In December of that year, the two were panelists at the TIFF Nexus conference Women in Film, Games, and New Media Day. “We both found the process of making games so exciting and satisfying that we wanted to give the same opportunity to more women, as well as build a strong community of game-inclined women in Toronto,” said Carver. Organizations like Dames Making Games Toronto are trying to change that by providing workshops, seminars, and incubators in an attempt to bring a new generation of women game designers and programmers to the fore.Ĭarver founded DMG Toronto in 2011 with Zoe Quinn, after they participated in a program called the Difference Engine Initiative (run by the Hand Eye Society in collaboration with TIFF Nexus). These attitudes towards women frequently extend to characters and dynamics within the games themselves.

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This past summer, we’ve seen outrage against Anita Sarkeesian’s proposed video series analyzing games from a feminist perspective, sexist terminology in the description of certain cooperative gameplay modes, and assertions that sexual harassment is “just part of the game” when playing competitively. In the face of numbers like these, it’s not surprising that those who want the game industry to remain a male-dominated preserve are resisting inevitable change.

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The latest figures from the Entertainment Software Association show that 47 per cent of women play video games, and that adult women represent a greater portion of the game-playing population (30 per cent) than boys aged 17 or younger (18 per cent). “Her mother brought her here,” Guthrie continued, “to show her that lots of different people are into programming, all kinds of people make games.” All kinds of people, including women.Įven though a number of women played pioneering roles in the early days of computer, arcade, and video gaming, for the last few decades there has been a scarcity of women in significant creative roles in the industry-this despite the growing number of women buying and playing all genres of games on all platforms. “She loves to code-but she doesn’t really like the other kids at school, so she doesn’t get into coding activities with others.” The teen stood, arms crossed, surveying the room. “She’s 14 years old and she loves games,” Guthrie said. Stephanie Guthrie, who has faced intense hostility from certain corners of the gaming community, pointed out a slight and serious Asian girl and her mother. They had also come to show their support for female game designers, who are a relative rarity in an industry often criticized for its negative attitudes towards women and general lack of diversity, both in the workplace and in games themselves. Programmers, writers, graphic artists, musicians, students, and players from all over Toronto’s gaming community had turned out to see the results of the six-week initiative, organized by Dames Making Games Toronto. There, the first-time female game designers involved in the Jeuxly (pronounced “July”) game development incubator were presenting their work. It was a warm evening in August and the room was packed at Bento Miso, a collaborative workspace for game and web developers nestled at the far west end of Richmond Street. 190589 Bitmap (Christine Kim) bitmap 640 242 bitmap 0 0

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Newly released race-based data renews calls to defund Toronto police

The release of previously unseen Toronto police statistics showing disproportionate enforcement and use of force against Black residents has reignited calls for the police to be defunded, two years after the city council rejected such a proposal.

Following the release of the data on Wednesday, several anti-racism and civil rights organizations said that redirecting police funding to social supports and services would improve community safety.

Instead of assurances that police will do better in the future, the No Pride in Policing Coalition has been seeking a “political solution” from Toronto's mayor and council, who are facing a municipal election in the fall, according to Cole.

He believes that defunding and eventually abolishing police would help ensure that “they can't hurt us like this any longer." Police continue to fail to serve and protect Black people, according to Teku, executive director of the BLAC, “and yet, year after year, all levels of government continue to pour money into police services.”

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association's director of criminal justice, Abby Deshman, said police “need to step back and make room for social service supports and civilian-led crisis interventions.”

According to the office of Toronto Mayor John Tory, he believes in “investing in eliminating systemic racism in the Toronto Police Service” and has backed recent reforms, including those that led to the collection and release of race-based data.

Two Toronto councillors proposed a motion in 2020 to cut the force's budget by 10 percent or $107 million and redirect the funds to community services.

The motion was defeated in favour of the mayor's proposed reforms, which included anti-racism measures and the use of body-worn cameras.

Thousands of people flocked to Toronto streets over several weeks to demand changes in policing, prompting the decision.

The demonstrations were part of a worldwide outcry following the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man from Minneapolis. They also came just weeks after Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Black woman from Toronto, died after falling from her balcony while police were in her home.

The public discussions about defunding police at the time, according to Tecle, were an important acknowledgement that police do not represent safety for racialized people and other historically marginalized groups.

Defunding and eventually abolishing police forces people to engage in a “total reimagining” of society, he said, noting that many communities have already put in place systems to keep themselves safe without calling the cops out of necessity.

On Wednesday, Toronto police showed that in 2020, Black people in the city faced a disproportionate amount of police enforcement and use of force and were more likely to have an officer point a gun at them--whether they were armed or unarmed--than white people in the similar situations.

According to the report, Middle Easterners were overrepresented in law enforcement and the use of force. Meanwhile, Latino and East and Southeast Asian residents saw less enforcement than the general population but when they did interact with police, they saw more use of force.

There were also racial disparities in strip searches, with Indigenous, Black and white residents being searched disproportionately in comparison to the number of arrests.

The figures were the first to be made public under the force's race-based data policy, which was implemented in 2019 after the provincial government passed legislation requiring several government agencies to collect such data. It came after a series of reports on race and policing.

As the statistics were released Ramer apologized to the city's Black residents, saying the force needed to do better.

Ramer was asked about calls to defund police and whether the force would consider offloading some services to community groups during his press conference.

A request for comment from Tory's office was not immediately returned on Thursday.

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DEALER SHOW DURING OMICRON IN INDIA

A dealer show (seller show, seller presentation, or vendor piece) is a display coordinated so that organizations in a particular industry can exhibit and show their most recent items and administrations, meet with industry accomplices and clients, concentrate on exercises of opponents, and inspect late market patterns and open doors.

Rather than purchaser fairs, just some vendor fairs are available to general society, while others must be gone to by organization agents (individuals from the seller, for example, experts) and individuals from the press, in this way seller shows have delegated all things considered "public" or "vendor as it were". A couple of fairs are half breeds of the two; one model is the Frankfurt Book Fair, which is vendor just for its initial three days and open to the overall population on its last two days. They are hung on a proceeding with the premise in essentially all markets and typically draw in organizations from around the globe. For instance, in the U.S., there are at present over 10,000[1] seller shows held each year, and a few internet-based registries have been set up to help coordinators, participants, and advertisers distinguish suitable occasions.

Current vendor fairs continue in the practice of seller fairs set up in late middle age Europe, for example, the Champagne fairs, in the period of trader private enterprise. In this time, produce and speciality makers visited towns for exchanging fairs, to sell and grandstand items. From the late eighteenth century, modern displays in Europe and North America turned out to be more normal mirroring the mechanical dynamism of the Industrial Revolution.

In the late nineteenth century, the idea of yearly industry-wide seller shows acquired footing, spreading from European assembling places to North America. By the twentieth century, particular organizations appeared essentially to deal with the vendor show industry, and extremely durable seller show grounds or conference halls were set up as scenes that highlighted a turning schedule of vendor shows.

In the 21st century, with the quick industrialization of Asia, seller shows and presentations are currently ordinary all through the Asian mainland, with China ruling the displays business in Asia, representing more than 55% of all space sold in the area in 2011.

Present scenario of dealer shows

In the midst of the facilitating of checks because of the decrease in Covid cases, the yearly India International vendor Fair (IITF) is set to make a rebound after a pandemic-initiated stop in 2020. The biggest yearly reasonable held in the public capital will see almost 3,000 exhibitors from India and abroad, with interest from 20 states, three association domains and nine nations - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, UAE, Tunisia and Turkey.

Hyderabad's well-known seller reasonable Numaish was briefly shut on Sunday, January 2, simply a day after it was opened up, amid rising COVID-19 cases in Telangana. The seller reasonable has been suspended till January 10, specialists said. Last year also, the city had missed Numaish because of the pandemic and this year, the 81st release of the occasion had started amid fears of the Omicron variation of the Covid.

However, the coordinators had guaranteed severe adherence to COVID-19 conventions and reported that they will follow a no-veil no-section strategy, guaranteeing actual distance was quite difficult for them. The All India Industrial Exhibition Society (AIIE), which sorts out the yearly occasion at Numaish Maidan at Nampally in the core of the city, had prior said that it was not taking any risks.

The general public said that it made strides like actually taking a look at the inoculation status of the slow down proprietors and day by day sanitisation. It additionally said groups would watch the scene to guarantee similarity with COVID-19 security conventions. "We are not giving character cards to slow down proprietors till they produce their two-portion immunization testament," AIIE secretary Aditya Margam prior said.

Be that as it may, after Numaish was briefly shut, a few groups took to web-based media to inquire as to why it was permitted to open in any case if COVID-19 cases were a worry. Some additionally inquired as to whether the coordinators of the occasion would return the store which was taken from slow down proprietors, who contributed vigorously to settle in at the reasonable, to create again.

Hyderabad celebrates the new year with Numaish. Last year, the general public at first deferred the show to January 31. However the COVID-19 circumstance was taken care of and the number of cases in Hyderabad had dropped, the general public accepting the choice as a proportion of bountiful alert.

A huge number of individuals crowd the show consistently and the rules which were then in power didn't allow get-togethers of over 200 individuals, the general public conceded the occasion. The Society was confident that 'Numaish' would start in March-April yet the subsequent wave constrained them to drop the plans.

dealerrs from different pieces of the nation set up their slows down during the display, which is visited by around 45,000 individuals consistently. Consistently 'Numaish' starts on January 1 and continues till February 15. North of 20 lakh individuals had visited the display in 2019.

A mix of economy and culture, the occasion is coordinated on the rambling grounds and incomes from the reasonable are spent on a gathering of instructive and magnanimous establishments run by the general public. The presentation draws individuals not simply from the twin urban areas of Hyderabad and Secunderabad yet from different pieces of Telangana and surprisingly adjoining states.

Numaish-e-Masnuaat-e-Mulki or to put it, Numaish, made a modest start in 1938 as an occasion to advance privately created merchandise. Starting with only 50 slows down, it has developed into one of the greatest modern presentations in the country. The seventh Nizam of Hyderabad State, Mir Osman Ali Khan, initiated the main Numaish.

As time passes, the occasion filled in size and prevalence. dealerrs from across India, other than neighbourhood businesses, business people, lodgings and well-established orders of things, set up slows down. Different state and focal government divisions just as open area endeavours utilize the stage to connect with individuals. Renamed the All India Industrial Exhibition in 1949, it was introduced by the Governor General of India, C Rajagopalachari.

Major big brands choose to pause and watch

The Indian auto industry, which is reeling under the deficiency of semiconductors, post the second flood of the Coronavirus pandemic, is currently monitoring the Omicron variation. It doesn't, in any case, see quite a bit of an effect soon.

For example, the country's biggest traveller vehicle creator Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) said it doesn't see any solid effect at present - neither in its creation plants in Haryana and Gujarat - nor at showrooms the nation over.

"Right now, there is no effect, however, we should perceive how it goes. How we as a rule treat get ready for security of our kin according to the public authority standards," RC Bhargava, Chairman, MSIL told BusinessLine. The organization, after a cut in its creations since September, had expanded the limit step by step from October and is relied upon to do around 86% of the typical limit.

As per Rakesh Srivastava, Managing Director, Nissan Motor India, "We have the designs to oversee difficulties on seller working and plant tasks."

Post-lockdown impact

The business veterans said that the start of the monetary year 2021-22, bit by bit began to show the constructive outcome of the staged opening of the economy. Be that as it may, the Omicron variation of the infection has indeed made dread universally.

The bike market which keeps on confronting request headwinds might additionally go in droop in the event of a third wave," Vinkesh Gulati, President, Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA), said.

As indicated by the most recent information by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the fabulous absolute of all vehicles deals among April and November declined by somewhat more than one per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to 1,10,89,266 units as contrasted and 1,12,05,008 units in relating period last year.

While complete traveller vehicle deals had developed by 26% y-o-y to 18,29,693 units during the period as against 14,55,558 units in April-November 2020, the bike deals had declined by 5.50 per cent y-o-y to 91,09,853 units against 96,39,267 units in the same period last year.

Once more the new variation of Covid 'Omicron' has grasped the whole country in dread. This will additionally affect the general vehicle interest. Value ascend because of high information expenses and high fuel costs are proceeding to add clients misfortunes. The heavy rains in Southern India additionally affected the deals of vehicles saw the auto alliance. In general retail deals went down 20% in the auto area.

FADA President, Vinkesh Gulati said, "Auto retail for November kept on leftover in the bad zone despite Diwali just as marriage season around the same time. The undesirable downpours in southern states additionally ruined the party. Except if provincial India begins giving indications of solidarity, generally speaking, retails will keep on excess frail."

While the 2W section saw nearly at standard deals contrasted with last year (which itself was a terrible year), generally feeling stayed low as marriage season additionally didn't help in restoration besides in a couple of states. Aside from this, crop misfortune because of perpetual rains and floods in southern states, high procurement cost just as fuel costs fended the clients off. Further, there are no indications of expansion in request levels which is a greater reason for concern.

PV keeps on confronting the brunt of semi-guided lack. While the new send-offs are keeping the client's advantage high, it is just the absence of supply that isn't permitting deals to finish up. The lengthy holding up period is currently beginning to make clients anxious and this might prompt loss of interest in vehicle purchasing.

The CV section keeps on seeing footing in the M&HCV portion. This helped by low base brought about twofold digit development. The transport section is as yet seeing a test run as instructive foundations keep on excess shut. With diesel costs at record highs, supplies of CNG vehicles can't fulfil the need. Tight liquidity and inaccessibility of money for clients who profited ban are additionally going about as deals hindrance."

On the 2W front, we indeed demand all OEMs declare an alluring plan which can function as a boost for development in deals. FADA furthermore demands them to reliably deal with a 21-days stock cycle.

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In China, quarantine improves air and prevents thousands of premature deaths

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In China, quarantine improves air and prevents thousands of premature deaths

Soon after coronavirus appeared, an all-encompassing quarantine put into effect by the Chinese government slowed the spread of the disease and saved lives, but the quarantine also produced another unanticipated health benefit.

A new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health, finds that China’s countrywide ban on traffic mobility from February 10 to March 14 greatly limited automobile emissions and sharply reduced the country’s often severe air pollution.

The improved air quality, in turn, prevented thousands of pollution-related deaths. More premature deaths were avoided by cleaner air — an estimated 12,125 — than lives lost from the pandemic — 4,633 as of May 4, the study finds.

“This is a very surprising result. The pandemic continues to be a terrible thing for China and the rest of the world, but the decrease in emissions that accompanied it has actually conferred some positive health results,” said Kai Chen, assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health and the study’s first author. “The question is, how can we have one without the other?”

Although the findings cannot be directly applied to other countries due to different severity of and responses to COVID-19, as well as differing air pollution levels and population characteristics, reduced air pollution levels have been detected in other Asian and European countries and the U.S. after their own lockdowns, Chen said. He notes that this reduction in pollution has likely conferred similar health benefits.

The study found that ground-level air pollution levels dropped remarkably throughout China, with nitrogen dioxide (NO2) dropping by 12.9 ?g/m3 (or 37% compared with before the quarantine period) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) dropping by 18.9 ?g/m3 (30%) across 367 Chinese cities. The decline in NO2 across China during the quarantine period was so dramatic that it was detected by satellite measurements.

NO2 is a gaseous air pollutant, which is mainly produced from fuel burning in vehicles and power plants. NO2 level before the quarantine (January 5 to 20) was as high as 40.5 ?g/m3 in Wuhan, where the outbreak began in China. During the quarantine (February 10 to March 14), those levels had fallen to 18.8 ?g/m3 (micrograms per cubic meter).

Particulate matter includes all solid and liquid particles suspended in air, many of which are hazardous when inhaled. This mixture includes both organic and inorganic particles, such as dust, pollen, soot, smoke, and liquid droplets. Before the quarantine, PM 2.5 (fine inhalable particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or smaller) levels were measured at 62.5 ?g/m3 in many Chinese cities. During the quarantine, the fine particulate matter reading has been 36.5 ?g/m3 in those same locations.

The authors then calculated the number of avoided deaths attributable to these decreases in NO2 and PM2.5 across China based on the short-term association between these pollutants and daily mortality using data from a previous epidemiological study of 272 Chinese cities, and mortality data from the China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2018. The authors found that among the more than 12,000 avoided deaths, about two-thirds were from avoided cardiovascular diseases (hypertensive disease, coronary heart disease and stroke) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The findings illustrate the substantial human health benefits related to cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality that can be achieved when aggressive air pollution control measures are put in place to reduce emissions from vehicles, such as through climate mitigation-related traffic restrictions or efforts to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles, the authors said.

“This unexpected health benefit suggests that if we were to address the climate crisis as aggressively as we are combating the COVID-19 pandemic with strong political will and urgent action, we could prevent the enormous health burdens associated with climate change,” said co-author Paul T. Anastas, professor at the Yale School of Public Health and the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Chair of Chemistry for the Environment.

The authors said that they want to further identify whether climate or weather-related factors and air pollution could influence population susceptibility to COVID-19.

The paper was written with researchers from the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions and Boston University School of Public Health.

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Materials provided by Yale School of Public Health. Original written by Michael Greenwood. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.

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