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Mountains of research has documented the health problems suffered by Holocaust survivors but a new study has found that, despite this, people who survived the Nazi death camps live longer than those who were spared the atrocities. Starvation, torture and the concentration camps’ dreadful living conditions left survivors suffering from a range of chronic illnesses […]
Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China is accused of detaining up to 1 million Uighur Muslims in internment camps in the western region of Xinjiang. Two Uighurs who had been inside those camps have told BBC Newsnight about the physical and psychological torture that goes on there. One described being shackled to a chair, deprived of sleep, […]
PR Francesco Lotoro gives the music of the holocaust back to the Jewish people Yet, at an astonishing concert to be held in Israel next month, people will, for the first time, hear music composed more than 70 years ago by prisoners in concentration camps, forced labour and prisoner of war camps – both civilian […]
Reuters/Tyrone Siu Since announcing a “people’s war on terror” in 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has created an unprecedented network of re-education camps in the autonomous Xinjiang region that are essentially ethnic gulags. Unlike the surgical “strike hard” campaigns of the recent past, the people’s war uses a carpet-bombing approach to the country’s tumultuous western […]
Diabetes Canada is closing a popular camp on P.E.I. for Island children with Type 1 diabetes, along with their summer camp in neighbouring New Brunswick.
Every year in Boulder, Colorado, Jerry Colonna would host four-day boot camps on radical self-inquiry under his firm, Reboot, designed for target demographics: CEOs and founders. Then he realized there was an underserved community of venture capitalists. “They have a unique expression of power, not a traditional command and control structure,” he says. This can […]
Parisians are up in arms over hundreds of migrants sleeping on their streets, queuing up in long lines, day and night, while waiting for their asylum requests to be processed, and some residents say they will start a hunger strike if the unkempt street camps are not removed. Locals in the 10 and 19th districts, […]
The first 52 refugees to be accepted by the US from Australia have left their Pacific island camps, according to a refugee advocate. The deal is part of an agreement described as “dumb” by US President Donald Trump. Twenty-five of the refugees departed a male-only camp on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, Refugee Action Coalition […]
One evening in January 2015, Oghenekaro Omu was in her London flat, exchanging tweets with friends from back home in Nigeria, when the conversation took an unexpected turn. Her friends were upset that the cost of sanitary pads had nearly doubled within a span of a few months to N350 ($ 0.96). Even worse, the […]
The ‘anti-terrorism’ or ‘defence’ training camps for tourists could offer a new experience for travellers when in the country. The Israeli Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) is working with Indian travel agencies to create the bizarre tourist attraction. It is certainly a contentious topic, especially in light of the heightened fear surrounding certain countries that Britons […]
