💭 A vote on the new law, which introduces up to five days of menstrual leave for women who have incapacitating periods, passed through the Spanish parliament earlier today.
According to the Spanish Gynaecological and Obstetric Society, a third of women experience dysmenorrhea or painful menstruation. Accompanying measures include the free provision of free sanitary products in schools, prisons and women’s centres to tackle “period poverty”.
The law gives workers the right to a three-day “menstrual” leave of absence, which can be extended it to five days. The leave will also require a doctor’s note.
💭 Spain now joins a short list of countries that offer sick leave, some paid, during menstrual cycles. Here’s a look at other laws around the world.
THE VIEW FROM ZAMBIA
Zambian women are entitled to one day off per month to deal with the side effects of their menstrual cycles. The day, colloquially referred to as “Mother’s Day,” can be taken by all women regardless of their marital status or if they have children.
THE VIEW FROM CHINA
Four Chinese provinces offer paid menstrual leave to working women. Shanxi, Ningxia, Hubei, and Anhui provinces all provide some form of leave. In Ningxia, a 2016 law offered two days per month of period leave, and employers are required to provide it or face penalties.
In Anhui, up to two days are available with a doctor’s note.
THE VIEW FROM SOUTH KOREA
One day of menstrual leave is available to South Korean women, but some women don’t know it is available, and many avoid using their entitlement at all for fear of a backlash in male-dominated workspaces.
Speaking to The Korea Times, 28-year-old Yoon Jin Sung described feeling guilty if she used her time off because her colleagues would need to take over her work. She thinks better public awareness about period pain is needed for women to feel like they can take the day off. “It’s not a privilege at all,” she said. “We need an environment where we can use the leave when we need to.”
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 16, 2023
MADRE MÍA
☆ Earthquakes to Drive Insured Losses of $2.4 Billion in Turkey
☆ Turkish Investments in Ethiopia Have Reached $2.5 Billion
Total property insurance and reinsurance industry losses from the dual Kahramanmaras, Turkey earthquakes are estimated at $2.4 billion, with economic losses pegged at close to $20 billion, according to Karen Clark & Company (KCC).
💭 Fresh CCTV footages from Turkey show the collapse of buildings in Malatya during the earthquake on 6 February 2023. A major 7.8-magnitude earthquake had struck Turkey and Syria. The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria has climbed to over 41,000. Damages will probably exceed $20 billion, the risk modelling company Verisk estimated
😈 The evil Oromo regime of Ethiopia and its TPLF makers + Amharas (Oromaras) are attempting to steal the attention of the public from the Tigray genocide – and Shrug off Responsibility and pin poor Performance and Decision Making on other issues like the Orthodox Church row.
During the two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia the systematic rape of Tigrayan women by Ethiopian soldiers, as well as their allies from neighbouring Eritrea and militia groups, has been documented by the United Nations, human rights organisations and journalists.
The Fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia warned on Wednesday that efforts by UN-backed investigators to probe abuses committed during the war in the country’s north could “undermine” the progress of a peace agreement signed last year.
The Fascist oromo regime of Ethiopia and its evil makers, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, TPLF inked a peace deal in South Africa in November to end the two-year Tigray war, which has killed untold numbers of people and unleashed a humanitarian crisis.
In its first report published in September last year, the UN-backed International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia said it had found evidence of violations by all sides that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ethiopia’s government rejected the report and has embarked on a diplomatic offensive to win international support for its bid to stop the commission from continuing its work.
On Wednesday, Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen said the commission “could undermine the AU-led peace process & the implementation of the Pretoria Peace Agreement with inflammatory rhetoric”, referring to the African Union, which mediated the negotiations.
“It could also undermine the efforts of national institutions,” he told an AU ministerial session ahead of the pan-African bloc’s summit in Addis Ababa this weekend, the foreign ministry said on Twitter.
The three-member commission, which was created by the UN Human Rights Council, has urged the Ethiopian government, its ally Eritrea and the TPLF to investigate and bring all perpetrators of abuses to justice.
Atrocities
At a rare press conference last week, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said allegations of rights abuses by his forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amounted to “fantasy”.
“This is a fantasy in the minds of those who are… in this factory I call a factory of fabricating misinformation,” Isaias said during a visit to Kenya, deflecting questions about the presence of Eritrean troops in Ethiopia.
Eritrea’s army supported Ethiopian forces during the war and has been accused by the United States and rights groups of some of the conflict’s worst atrocities.
Asmara was not a party to the peace agreement and its troops remain in parts of Tigray, according to residents who accuse the soldiers of murder, rape and looting.
Under the terms of the peace deal, the TPLF agreed to disarm in return for the restoration of access to Tigray, which was largely cut off from the outside world during the war.
During the two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia the systematic rape of Tigrayan women by Ethiopian soldiers, as well as their allies from neighbouring Eritrea and militia groups, has been documented by the United Nations, human rights organisations and journalists.
There was hope that after the peace agreement was signed in November, the assaults on civilians would stop.
Women, health workers and aid organisations have told the BBC that they did not.
I spoke to Letay on a crackly phone line – journalists are not being given government permission to travel to Tigray.
“It happened to me twice. What have I done wrong? It seemed like I wished for it.”
Letay says she had been raped before, in January 2021, by two Eritrean soldiers – a third one refused.
“The two of them did what they wanted before asking the third one to do the same, except he said no. He said: ‘What will I do with her? She is already a corpse lying around.'”
After the first time she was raped, Letay sought medical and psychological help, joining a women’s support group for survivors. On the day of the peace deal Letay had rushed out to help a young girl who had also been raped before she was assaulted too.
It is difficult to know the true number of sexual assaults committed during the war.
Victims are often scared to speak out while telecommunications had been cut off during the fighting.
According to data from the official Tigray Health Bureau in November and December 2022 – after the peace deal was signed – 852 cases were reported in centres set up to help survivors.
Human rights workers and aid organisations operating in Tigray have also continued to document cases of sexual violence.
“Sexual violence is a violation of the agreement,” says Laetitia Bader, Horn of Africa Director at Human Rights Watch. “One of the issues we have been raising is the importance of the backers of the agreement to ensure that they are speaking out when there are violations”.
The organisation continues to call for independent investigators and journalists to gain access to northern Ethiopia.
“We are very concerned by the efforts of the Ethiopian government to try to end and undermine the work of the international commission of human rights experts of Ethiopia, which was established by the Human Rights Commission in Geneva,” she adds.
Ms Bader says investigations will be crucial if survivors are to get justice and for any reconciliation process.
“I never expected to be assaulted after the peace agreement,” says Hilina.
The mother of three had already fled her home in Humera to the town of Shirao where she worked as a street vendor selling maize.
She says on 16 November, she was late going home when two Eritrean troops stopped her for breaking the curfew. She told them she had no ID, and they took her to an empty house.
Hilina says she was raped the whole night before they let her go in the morning. She has since had an abortion, saying she would rather die than give birth to a child from rape.
According to aid workers the BBC spoke to there are Eritrean troops close to Shiraro.
The peace deal requires them to leave Tigray and though they have pulled out of major cities and towns, they maintain a presence in areas close to their border with Tigray.
Shashu, an 80-year-old woman, cannot hold back her tears as we speak to her – again on a crackly phone line. We ask if she wants to continue with the interview and she agrees.
Like Letay, Shashu says she has been raped twice in this war – before and after the peace deal.
She says men assaulted her so badly in November that she now cannot control her urine and stool.
“Two, three people on one human, I was completely traumatised. It’s as if there is nothing good on my body any more.”
Access to the region of six million people remains restricted, and it is impossible to verify independently the situation on the ground.
The genocidal war erupted in on November 4th , 2020 after war criminal Oromo Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, sent his Oromo Eritrean, Amhara, Somali, Emirati, Irani and Turkish Armies into Tigray.
💭 Currently Multiple law enforcement agencies are responding to a us military helicopter crash that happened on in the area of Highway 53 and Burwell Road in Madison County, Alabama. Multiple people are reporting seeing of thick smoke with large flames shooting out of the helicopter reports are saying no one likely survived the helicopter crash.
🚁 The Battle of Mogadishu / The Black Hawk Down
The film takes place in 1993 when the U.S. sent special forces into Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. Using Black Hawk helicopters to lower the soldiers onto the ground, an unexpected attack by Somalian forces brings two of the helicopters down immediately. From there, the U.S. soldiers must struggle to regain their balance while enduring heavy gunfire.
👉 ‘Black Hawk Down’ was released 2 ½ monthes after 9/11, on December 28th, 2001. Wow!
💭 The family of a mentally ill man who died in police custody say their loved one froze to death after being restrained and placed in a freezer for hours.
Anthony Mitchell’s family filed a lawsuit in Walker County, Alabama, after the man died on January 26, two weeks after he was arrested for attempted murder after allegedly threatening to harm himself and others.
“This is one of the most appalling cases of prison abuse the country has seen,” alleges the 37-page federal lawsuit filed by the family.
Shocking video of Mitchell being taken out of jail on January 26 shows the man being dragged away and placed in a police car before being pronounced dead.
❖ Rainbos/ Colors of Zion / የጽዮን ቀለማት ❖ ‘Rainbow’ in Ethiopic = “The Belt of Mary” ❖
A Rainbow Glows after the Tornado Blows between Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
🛑 Anagram
Alabama + Tennessee + Georgia + Arkansas + Pine Bluff + Memphis + Jackson + Marietta + Montgomery + Magnolia = Lisa Marie Presley
🛑 Gematria
“Storm Grace” = 119 (Ordinal)
☆ The 156th Prime number is 911
☆ The 9/11 attacks fell 11009 days after the final eclipse from Saros 116:
☆ This week’s FAA’s nationwide flight grounding was a tribute to 9/11.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 16, 2023
Babylon vs. Babylon
❖❖❖[Revelation 18:3]❖❖❖
„For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”
💭 James Biden secretly negotiated a $140 million settlement deal in 2012 between a U.S. company and the Saudi Arabian government due to his relationship with then-Vice President Joe Biden, court documents reveal.
The revelation represents one more instance of the Biden family business peddling influence while President Joe Biden was an elected official. House Oversight Committee James Comer (R-KY) reportedly already has copies of the court documents and is investigating the scandal as a part of his probe into the Biden family for nine violations, including wire fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering.
Jim Biden admitted he was hired to negotiate with Saudis over a secret $140million deal ‘because of his position and relationship’ to his VP brother Joe -who would be ‘instrumental to the deal,’ bombshell affidavit claims
Affidavits claim Joe’s younger brother Jim was at the center of a $140m settlement between a US construction company and Saudi Arabia in 2012
Biden was selected because Saudi Arabia ‘would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal’
Jim allegedly said: ‘Of course, the [Biden] name didn’t hurt’ as wife Sara said that Joe and his brother ‘told each other everything’
THE VIEW FROM ZAMBIA
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