Month: January 2025

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A study came out in December that made me cry. Titled Needs Study: Impact of War in Gaza on Children with Vulnerabilities and Families, it was conducted by the Community Training Centre for Crisis Management (CTCCM) in Gaza. Written in a clinical style, nothing about the language should have impacted me in the way that it did. But the study’s findings were shocking. Here are some of the cold facts: 79% of the children in Gaza suffer from nightmares. 87% of them experience severe fear. 38% report bedwetting. 49% of caregivers said that their children believed that they would die in the war. 96% of the children in Gaza felt that death was imminent. Put simply, every single child ...

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Don Samantha, Asia Commune  Sri Lanka is a small island in the Indian Ocean located southeast of India. Its surface area is 65,610 km2. The country has a population of 22.2 million. The languages spoken there are mainly Sinhalese and Tamil. The English language has also been used there since the period of the British colonial empire. The country is multi-confessional: there are Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Benefiting from India's struggle for independence, Sri Lanka was liberated from British colonization on February 4, 1948. From that date until the presidential election on September 21, 2024, the country was ruled by several pro-imperial families. For the past 76 years, Sri Lanka has been ruled by the Senanayake (UNP), Bandaranaike (SLFP), Wickremesinghe (UNP) an...

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