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  For eight years, Derenda Hancock has ushered girls from their motors to the doorways of Mississippi’s solely abortion clinic, donning a rainbow vest as she shields them from protesters waving spiritual pamphlets and shouting “turn back!” thru bullhorns. Hancock, a 62-year-old part-time waitress, grew accustomed to repeated tries through lawmakers and anti-abortion activists to block get right of entry to to abortions at the Jackson Women's Health Organization where she leads the clinic's volunteer escorts. But the future of that get entry to feels threatened like by no means earlier than after the U.S. Supreme Court thrust the clinic's noisy town block into the core of the country's contentious debate over abortion rights. The court docket on Monday agreed to assessment Mississippi’s bid to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a Republican-backed measure enacted in direct task to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. The c

  The Nigerian government has been advised to ensure the protection of every child as enshrined in the Constitution. This comes amid concern at the non domestication of the child's right at two thousand and three by 11 states in the country.  In 2003, Nigeria adopted the Child Right Act to domesticate the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Children's Rights Act of 2003 expands the human rights bestowed to citizens in Nigeria's 1999 constitution to children of this law was passed at the federal level. Only state assemblies can make it effective and also codify the law. Currently, 11 states are yet to domesticate the Child Rights Act.  This has raised concerns about the government's commitment to the protection of the rights of a child as enshrined in the Constitution. Child rights advocates also anime Umali is concerned about this and has expressed worry about the plight of the child.   The future of the Nigerian children are bright and therefore they must be pro

  Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that the pass was once fundamental "to hold passengers safe". Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab instructed MPs the interception of the flight was once a "shocking assault on civil aviation". Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, 26, used to be eliminated from the airplane and arrested at Minsk airport on Sunday. Belarus scrambled a fighter jet to pressure the aircraft - which was once journeying from Athens in Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania - to land in the Belarusian capital after pronouncing there had been a bomb threat. Police took Mr Protasevich away when passengers disembarked. Mr Shapps stated he has additionally suspended the working allow of Belarus' kingdom airline, Belavia, efficaciously banning it from the UK. The airline's timetable indicates it operates a three-times weekly flight from Minsk to London's Gatwick airport. Meanwhile Mr Raab informed the House of Commons the interception used to be a "

  The targetted assaults on police and INEC amenities continued on Sunday with an attack on a police division and an workplace of the electoral business enterprise on Sunday evening. The latest attacks took place in Awka, Anambra State. The gunmen Sunday night attacked the B Division of the Nigeria Police Force and the workplace of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Awka. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the utterly armed attackers got here in three Hilux vans at about eight p.m. on Sunday. A witness who nearly ran into the bothered location placed between the famous Ekwueme Square, Awka, stated the bandits shot into the air shut to one hour at B Police Division earlier than intending to INEC office. The source, who requested now not to be named, stated earlier than intending to INEC, the gunmen drove to Aroma junction and shot in the air for about 10 minutes which made residents scamper for security earlier than they headed down to INEC. Though the s

  The assault in Dong village of Jos North happened at about eight p.m. on Sunday as the village got here below siege with sporadic gunshots. The Village Head, Daniel Choji advised Channels Television that the attackers got here beneath the cowl of darkness to unleash terror on the community. He stated the assault left eight individuals lifeless comprising of 5 females, two males, and an infant. In some other assault in Kwi village of Riyom Local Government place simply about a kilometre distance to the Yakubu Gowon Airport, the attackers invaded the neighborhood on Sunday night time leaving eight humans dead and one injured. The member representing the Constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Timothy Dantong validated to Channels Television that 4 men and 4 women had been killed in the attack. He described the assault as barbaric, dispassionate and inhuman. He additionally referred to as on safety operatives to stay up to their obligations through responding to misery call