#vulnerable communities

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[alwaysbewoke]

This might help to get an overview of the humaniterian crisis in sudan

[indizombie]

As a Pacific Islander, a lot of people think my role here at COP is to come and cry, like I owe them my trauma, when I don't owe you my trauma. You all have the power here today to be better. To remember that in your meeting rooms and drafting documents there are more than just black and white objects. To remember that in your words you wield the weapons that can save us or sell us out. I don't need to remind you of the reality of vulnerable communities. If you're here today, you know what climate change is doing to us. The real question is whether you have the political will to do the right thing.

Brianna Fruean, climate activist from Samoa

[autisticadvocacy]

Disabled People Cannot Be “Expected Losses” in the Climate Crisis

To tell the story of disability and climate change, we need to focus on structural violence -- not vulnerability.

“The structural barriers that disability communities face every day become a matter of life or death during disaster.”

https://truthout.org/articles/disabled-people-cannot-be-expected-losses-in-the-climate-crisis/

[indizombie]

Beef is a nutritional superior food, with beef liver scoring even higher. For a child, a meal with a beef in it is a treat. For a mother, it's a child who has eaten a full meal. For a nutritionist, it is a nutritionally dense meal. For a doctor, it means better immunity, lesser malnutrition, fewer infections and lesser mortality. For the BJP, it is nothing more than vote bank politics. For the vapid elite of the state, it is nothing more than an armchair discussion. Elite 'vegetarians' can tut tut over their palak paneers and curd rice while bemoaning how people should 'respect the law'. What is a law if it is criminalises people's nutritional rights and paves the way for unscrupulous lynch mobs to target some of the most vulnerable communities? Does social fabric , justice, fraternity, equality matter in Karnataka or do 'rights' vary based on one's class, caste and religion?

Dr Sylvia Karpagam, 'The Karnataka anti-cow slaughter bill is against the poor', Round Table India

[indizombie]

Over the last decade, Venezuela has reduced the malnutrition rate from 13.5 percent to 2.5 percent. This achievement was possible thanks to the participation of "The Cooks of the Homeland", a group of women who dedicate an hour of their daily work to activities carried out in a network of 3,117 restaurants feeding vulnerable communities. Children, adolescents, the elderly, and people with physical disabilities or in situations of social vulnerability receive priority attention. The "Food Houses" are part of a social program created in 2005 during the presidency of Hugo Chavez. The current goal of this public initiative is to consolidate some 6,000 food houses by linking them to growing food. Currently, around 1.7 million Venezuelans are working in the provision of essential services during the pandemic.

'Venezuela Fights Malnutrition With 3,000 'Food Houses'', teleSUR

[starnews24live]

आरजीआई ने निष्पक्ष जनगणना सुनिश्चित करने के लिए संवेदनशील क्षेत्रों की गांव-वार मैपिंग का आदेश दिया भारत समाचार

नई दिल्ली, भारत के रजिस्ट्रार जनरल ने जिला मजिस्ट्रेटों और नगर निगम आयुक्तों को ऐसे गांवों, बस्तियों और समुदायों की पहचान करने का निर्देश दिया है जो खतरे या धमकी के प्रति संवेदनशील हैं जो जनगणना के स्वतंत्र संचालन में बाधा डाल सकते हैं और भेद्यता मानचित्रण कर सकते हैं। आरजीआई ने निष्पक्ष जनगणना सुनिश्चित करने के लिए संवेदनशील क्षेत्रों की गांव-वार मैपिंग का आदेश दिया है आरजीआई ने इस संभावना पर…

आरजीआई ने निष्पक्ष जनगणना सुनिश्चित करने के लिए संवेदनशील क्षेत्रों की गांव-वार मैपिंग का आदेश दिया भारत समाचार

[portesina]

(via Creating Safe and Playful Spaces for Every Child: A Scalable Model for Impact)