Am I the last to hear about the earthquakes in Tajikistan? Here is the UN press release. They are providing all of $20K to assist 9,000 people.
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This news about a child rape in Zimbabwe is, of course, nothing new. Throughout southern Africa men have been raping young children, including babies (who are often killed in the process), under the idea that that will cure them of AIDS.
Salon’s Broadsheet blog reports on an AP story about how the cover of a parenting magazine, Babytalk featuring a nursing baby (see left) has been creating a lot of controversy. A lot of mothers seem to find the idea of breastfeeding gross, and the picture of a naked breast (even one where the aerola has been airbrushed away) even grosser.
I can only imagine how they deal with seeing naked breasts in public. Fortunately I’ve never actually experienced the problems first hand. This is probably because I live in California, one of the most breastfeeding-friendly states in the nation. The law here is that you can breastfeed in any public space. And I have. The library, museums, restaurants, parks, planes, pretty much anywhere I could sit down and quelch my baby’s hunger. I breastfed until my baby was 16 months old, and by the end of it she insisted on eating while standing or looking around which meant my breast was even more exposed (and contorted) than even I was comfortable with. But I never had a problem. I never noticed any dirty looks – not that I would, I tend to be oblivious to the environment around me – or heard any assinine coments. Thanks God, ’cause it wouldn’t have been pretty if I had š
The following article from the UN news agency caught me by surprise. On the one hand it makes sense that one of the world’s largest countries be a large food aid donor. On the other hand the extreme rural poverty in China makes you wonder how, exactly, that is accomplished. Interestingly, China becam the 3rd largest food donor the same year it stopped receiving food aid itself.
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