CaractacusPotts

“He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” she told SF Gate, adding: “One thing we do know, it was a drug.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/15630816

AMMAN — Seventyfive years into the Palestinian “Nakbah”, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has taken the responsibility to provide humanitarian aid to Palestine Refugees across the region.

Director Marketing Communications Widian Othman said that “UNRWA acts as a miniature government within the refugee camps”, emphasising the agency’s indispensable role.

“Without UNRWA, the essential lifelines for refugees would vanish as the agency oversees everything from street cleaning to health and education, effectively mirroring the comprehensive services provided by the government to ensure the well-being of those residing in the camps,” she said.

AMMAN — Seventyfive years into the Palestinian “Nakbah”, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has taken the responsibility to provide humanitarian aid to Palestine Refugees across the region.

Director Marketing Communications Widian Othman said that “UNRWA acts as a miniature government within the refugee camps”, emphasising the agency’s indispensable role.

“Without UNRWA, the essential lifelines for refugees would vanish as the agency oversees everything from street cleaning to health and education, effectively mirroring the comprehensive services provided by the government to ensure the well-being of those residing in the camps,” she said.

As a resident of Duncan I’m distressed about the rise in hateful rhetoric from groups such as Canadian Citizens Against Crime and Public Drug Abuse. Founder Travis Rankin has been quoted in several media outlets in the last few months, including this one, and now the rally the group is planning for Friday could have serious and dangerous consequences for our most vulnerable community members.

This protest is based in fear, not in facts. Rankin and his group equate drug use and homelessness with crime. Evidence demonstrates that unhoused people, people who use substances and people who experience mental illness are significantly more likely to be targets of crime, rather than perpetrators.

As a resident of Duncan I’m distressed about the rise in hateful rhetoric from groups such as Canadian Citizens Against Crime and Public Drug Abuse. Founder Travis Rankin has been quoted in several media outlets in the last few months, including this one, and now the rally the group is planning for Friday could have serious and dangerous consequences for our most vulnerable community members.

This protest is based in fear, not in facts. Rankin and his group equate drug use and homelessness with crime. Evidence demonstrates that unhoused people, people who use substances and people who experience mental illness are significantly more likely to be targets of crime, rather than perpetrators.