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The simple truth about ECT: No one should be given shock treatment

ECT works by damaging the brain. ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) involves the application of two electrodes to the head to pass electricity through the brain with the goal of causing an intense seizure or convulsion. The process always damages the brain, resulting each time in a temporary coma and often a flatlining of the brain waves, […]

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Renewable energy: MEPs strike deal with Council to boost use of green energy | News | European Parliament

MEPs and the Swedish Presidency of the Council informally agreed to raise the share of renewables in the EU’s final energy consumption to 42.5% by 2030, under the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). Member states should strive to achieve 45%. The legislation will also speed up procedures to grant permits for new renewable […]

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The French Parliament recognized the “Holodomor” as genocide

On Tuesday, the French parliament recognized as genocide the great famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s – the Holodomor, caused by the Soviet authorities and which caused the death of millions of people, France Press reported. In a resolution passed almost unanimously (by 168 votes to 2), MPs called on the government to follow […]

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UNICEF sounds alarm over fast-spreading cholera outbreaks in Africa

“The cholera outbreak in eastern and southern Africa isn’t just an outbreak; it’s an emergency for children,” the agency said. Calling for $171 million in funds to support 28 million people suffering in the region, UNICEF said tailored responses are already reaching many impacted, but more must urgently be done. Tailored life-saving responses The agency […]

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Mental health and psychological care of the child: the impasses of the “all biological” approach

The recent report published by the High Council for Family, Childhood and Age (HCFEA) warns of the psychological suffering of children and adolescents, as well as the chronic lack of resources allocated to care, education and social intervention in mental health in France.

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Ukraine: End war so children can ‘regain their childhoods’

Some 13 months of often brutal fighting and attacks on civilians since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine began, have left millions displaced, with key civilian infrastructure in need of urgent protection. Ensuring nuclear safety Touring the area around Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met with […]

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Xunta de Galicia defends psychiatric hospital torture of patients with electroshocks without consent

An Arzua (Galicia, Spain) family’s rejection of electroshock treatment (which the UN and WHO consider torture) is not being respected by the hospital of Xunta de Galicia. The psychiatric hospital of Conjo (Santiago, Galicia, Spain) under the jurisdiction of the Xunta de Galicia, in continuation with its dark past of violating the rights of people […]

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French governments’ long record of bypassing parliament: a brief history of article 49.3

Emboldened by united trade unions, the tug of war between the street and the government over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform had mostly taken on the form of strikes and demonstrations since mid-January. However, the government’s decision to bypass the lower chamber by invoking article 49.3 of the French constitution on Thursday 16 March has now sharply […]

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