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Europe | U.K. | Intergrity

Little girl writes letter to Tesco CEO to demand pockets for girls’ school trousers

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A little girl has written to the CEO of Tesco accusing the supermarket of sexism after discovering that only boys’ school trousers had real pockets. Nine-year-old Eleanor Waterman was very annoyed when she discovered that the school trousers she had chosen from Tesco had fake pockets. She was so annoyed, in fact, that she wrote a letter to the supermarket’s CEO Dave Lewis expressing her outrage. Her mum explained that Eleanor had written the letter because she just couldn’t understand why the boys got real pockets, but the girls didn’t. ‘At the start of term, Eleanor put
Middle East | Palestine | Activism

Palestinian women rescue child from attack by Israeli soldier

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This video shows several women preventing an Israeli soldier from abducting a Palestinian child in the village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank on Friday. The footage, shot by Bilal Tamimi, shows a masked soldier assaulting a child whose arm is in a cast. The child is clearly distressed. A man screams at the soldier “he’s a boy! he’s a boy!” but the soldier continues his attack. A short time later, several women appear and pull the soldier off the boy, braving his blows, but preventing the abduction from taking place. One of the women also pulls the mask off the woul
North America | United States | Activism

Filmmaker Laura Poitras Sues US Over ‘Kafkaesque’ Harassment

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Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras on Monday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. intelligence agencies for subjecting her to what she called "Kafkaesque" harassment at airports throughout the U.S. and the world on dozens of occasions. Poitras, who won an Academy Award last year for Citizenfour, the documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, said she has been detained, searched without warrant, interrogated for hours, and had vital belongings confiscated more than 50 times over the course of six years—without ever being charged w

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