Venezuela’s Health Care Crisis Now Poses a Global Threat

Expand Relatives of patients that are been treated at the University Hospital wait in front of the building in Barquisimeto, Venezuela on April 24, 2019. © 2020 YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images By Kathleen Page and Tamara Taraciuk Broner The coronavirus has quickly evolved from an epidemic in China’s Hubei province to a global pandemic. The question now isn’t which countries will get it, but how they will respond—and whether human rights will be protected. The World Bank and the United Nations have committed emergency funds to support the response, prioritizing countries with weak health systems.…

Read complete article

~	West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters today

~	The UK Again Attempts to Bend Truth on Rwanda

~	Can New African Union Genocide Envoy Curb Atrocities in Africa?

~	Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely

~	The NSW treasurer says a slashed share of GST will cost his state $11.9 billion. But where did he get this figure?

~	Kazakhstan: New Law to Protect Women Improved, but Incomplete

~	Mali: Political parties call for presidential elections to end military transition

~	What doesn’t kill you makes for a great story – two new memoirs examine the risky side of life

~	Elon Musk says ‘disc replacement’ worked for him. But evidence this surgery helps chronic pain is lacking

~	Angola: Proposed Security Law Threatens Rights