ON SUNDAY, dozens of #migrant #workers in #Taipei gathered at the city’s central train station
to protest gender violence against migrant women
as well as raise awareness about the plight of Palestinian women and children through a flash mob performance.
This was in celebration of
“One Billion Rising”,
an annual campaign against rape and #gender #violence held in 60 countries worldwide.
The name comes from a statistic that within their lifetime,
at least one in three women across the world will have encountered gender violence, which totals to around one billion people.
https://newbloommag.net/2025/04/02/one-billion-rising-2025/

“He took information that was publicly available but labor-intensive to compile, and did something nobody else was doing...I don’t know if he expected this second career to make him basically the world’s only credible public source on U.S. deportation flights, just as they were becoming part of one of the United States’ biggest national news stories.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/ice-flight-tracker-deportations/682226/

#Trump strips nearly 30,000 #migrant children of their lawyers to fast-track deportations

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-25/trump-strips-nearly-30000-migrant-children-of-their-lawyers-to-fast-track-deportations.html

The government cancels contracts with dozens of organizations that represent asylum cases for unaccompanied minors and threatens lawyers with lawsuits if they do not drop the cases