By Europa Newswire Domestic violence and sexual assault is a great problem in our society. With the numbers of victims increasing by the day much is done to help those women who are abused by their spouses, partners or boyfriends. But what about the men who are being victimized? Why aren’t they being acknowledged? “Our society doesn’t want to accept men as victims of domestic violence and sexual assault,” said journalist and documentary filmmaker La Shawn Pagán during a recent lunch. “Much less does it want to face the fact that they are being victimized by both genders – [Read More]
Aug 9, 2014
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Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire The Colombian International Cultural Center held this Sunday, July 27th, the fourteenth edition of the Colombian Parade in New York. Like every year, the event was attended by personalities from the political, artistic and business world as well as hundreds of people from Colombia who proudly waved the flag of the coffee country. There were multicolored roses and beautiful women. With quite warm temperatures that touched 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the Colombian public stood along the wide avenue Northern Boulevard to commemorate the Independence of Colombia and to show your patriotism correctly. “Very nice parade and as [Read More]
Aug 9, 2014
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Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire National teams in 15 of the most significant carbon emitting states worldwide came together to produce a 194-page report , which summarizes the huge technological transformations that just about every state need to make to avert global warming from surpassing 2degreeC . The report, found Tuesday by U .N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the U .N.’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network, plans to direct the discussion in the run-up to the 2015 U .N. Climate Change Conference in Paris. It was the initial report of the Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project (DDPP). An [Read More]
