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‘Slap in the face’: American Red Cross workers describe exploitative work conditions
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Workers at the American Red Cross charity are speaking out about what they say is low pay, chronic understaffing, poor working conditions throughout the pandemic and proposed cuts to their healthcare. “The morale is ...
‘It’s Russian roulette’: migrants describe nightmarish route across Florida Straits
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Those who survive the perilous sea crossing between the Bahamas and the US describe a nightmarish odyssey of vomit, sweat and fear. “It’s suicide – Russian roulette,” one Brazilian migrant recalled in a 2017 interview...
Ukrainian family describe trauma of UK visa processing
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A Ukrainian mother and daughter fleeing the war finally arrived on UK soil on Monday evening, after more than a week of grappling with visa problems with British officials in France. Before the family could reach the ...
Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages
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Russian soldiers have shot people dead in the street as they took over Ukrainian villages, according to fleeing residents. Soldiers shot randomly at buildings, threw grenades down roads and went from house to house co...
‘Out of touch’: children’s authors describe increasing censorship of books on diversity
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Children’s authors and performers say growing censorship, institutional timidity and online backlash are resulting in stories about diversity, sexuality and even contemporary world events being deemed inappropriate fo...
‘What liberation?’: Mariupol survivors rescued from last civilian bunker describe horrors of siege
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Spike, the quarrelsome dachshund, got something every meal, even as the humans trapped in the bunker under Azovstal steelworks were wasting away from hunger. By the end there was so little food and water that adults w...