Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Afghanistan.... we love you dearly.... and your ordinary.... especially girls, women and grandmas.... we came so close ...August 2023
Our broken hearts.... 18 million girls were going to school before political international interference stole Dr. Abdullah Abdullah's democratic won election and all the incredible things accomplished.... we won Afghanistan war three times.... and now they call it # AfghanistanApartheid
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Is Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan gender apartheid?
The Chronicle Herald (Metro)
12 Aug 2023
HOMA HOODFAR MONA TAJALI SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPORT
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The second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is fast approaching. Since then, Afghan women have been denied the most basic human rights in what can only be described as gender apartheid.
Only by labelling it as such and making clear the situation in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity can the international community legally fight the systematic discrimination against the country’s women and girls.
Erasing women from the public sphere is central to Taliban ideology. Women’s rights institutions in Afghanistan, notably the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, have been dismantled while the dreaded Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has been resurrected.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has been dissolved and the country’s 2004 constitution repealed, while legislation guaranteeing gender equality has been invalidated.
Today, Afghan women are denied a post-secondary education, they cannot leave the house without a male chaperone, they cannot work, except in health care and some private businesses and they are barred from parks, gyms and beauty salons.
WOMEN TARGETED
Of the approximately 80 edicts issued by the Taliban, 54 specifically target women, severely restricting their rights and violating Afghanistan’s international obligations and its previous constitutional and domestic laws.
The Taliban appear undeterred, continuing where they left off 20 years ago when they first held power. The results of their ambitions are nearly apocalyptic.
Afghanistan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. About 19 million people are suffering from acute food insecurity, while more than 90 per cent of Afghans are experiencing some form of food insecurity, with female-headed households and children most impacted.
Gender-based violence has increased exponentially with corresponding impunity for the perpetrators and lack of support for the victims, while ethnic, religious and sexual minorities are suffering intense persecution.
This grim reality underscores the urgent need to address how civil, political, socioeconomic and genderbased harms are interconnected.
INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Karima Bennoune, an Algerian-american international law scholar, has advocated recognizing gender apartheid as a crime under international law. Such recognition would stem from states’ international legal commitments to gender equality and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5 aimed at achieving global gender equality by 2030.
Criminalizing gender apartheid would provide the international community with a powerful legal framework to effectively respond to Taliban abuses. While the UN has already labelled the situation in Afghanistan gender apartheid, the term is not currently recognized under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as being among the worst international crimes.
Presenting his report at the UN Human Rights Council, Richard Bennett — the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan — stated:
“A grave, systematic and institutionalized discrimination against women and girls is at the heart of Taliban ideology and rule, which also gives rise to concerns that they may be responsible for gender apartheid.”
Criminalizing gender apartheid globally would allow the international community to fulfil its obligation to respond effectively and try to eradicate it permanently. It would provide the necessary legal tools to ensure that international commitments to women’s rights in all aspects of life are upheld.
Shaharzad Akbar, head of the Rawadari human rights group and former chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, has urged the Human Rights Council to acknowledge the situation in Afghanistan as gender apartheid.
She’s noted that the “Taliban have turned Afghanistan to a mass graveyard of Afghan women and girls’ ambitions, dreams and potential.”
A number of Afghan women’s rights defenders have also called for the inclusion of gender apartheid in the UN’S Draft Convention on Crimes Against Humanity.
Most remarkably, Bronwen Levy, South Africa’s representative at the Security Council, has urged the international community to “take action against what (Bennett’s) report describes as gender apartheid, much like it did in support of South Africa’s struggle against racial apartheid.”
Elsewhere, the chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, as well as the head of its Delegation for Relations with Afghanistan, have described the “unacceptable” situation in Afghanistan as one of gender apartheid.
Whenever and wherever apartheid systems emerge, it represents a failure of the international community. The situation in Afghanistan must compel it to respond effectively to the persecution of women.
Recognizing Taliban rule as gender apartheid is not only critical for Afghans, it is equally critical for the credibility of the entire UN system. As Afghan human rights activist Zubaida Akbar told the Security Council:
“If you do not defend women’s rights here, you have no credibility to do so anywhere else.”
The Taliban’s brutal two years in power in Afghanistan have taught us that ordinary human rights initiatives, while important, are insufficient for addressing gender apartheid.
The world needs resolute collective international action to end the war on women. Not in two months. Not in two years. But now.
Homa Hoodfar is professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at Concordia University in Montreal, Que. Mona Tajali is associate professor of international relations and women’s gender and sexuality studies at Agnes Scott College in Decatar, Georgia, U.S.A.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
HUMANITY DESERVES BETTER THAN #UnitedNations rich boys club 1% ..... all living creatures and humans matter - we need education for every child and equality and inclusion - it's 2021
UN CHARTER FORMED ON PROMISE 1945 - full equality
World needs better structure and decent leadership- 1%richboys club of #UnitedNations needs to be disband - we are not #invisiblepeople #WeAreAllNeda2009 #womenequalmen2021 #equalityUNCharter1945
Humanity's reality needs more than words.... need simple workable plans and action.... especially food, water, safe, the basics to survive... especially in 2021
we are now the world's #covidPrisoners and will be for a long time to come.... but we are and will do better when this is over... and as billions of ordinary globally will be better watchers of our world ... and all living things ..... enough of big industry pillaging and destroying our planet and laying the clean up at the feet of we the ordinary imho....
Canada we need better class of politicians in these hard times in all three parties.... like former Trudeau (was a socialist but refused to take any bullshite and world knew it) and Harper (even though Harper put the red in blue tories (blue tories were like the liberals with better reality checks)....imho... and no party is more racist than the old labour party of NDP.... oughta know was unionist for over 26 years.... and it was hard to make changes..... and Greens love the Hamas Palestine too damm much.... $trillions have gone to Palestine and frankly the real Palestine people would all be billionaires... without Hamas....in today's world.
Canada deserves better because the real ordinary at ground level... communities are scorched with losses and our youth suffering mental hardships... at least in school they had friends, place to go, things to do exercise and living.....
USA is a crapshoot... at least Trump was honest in just being a greedy businessman (and nev-a the blah, blah, blah do nothings useless as titties on a bull politician) like China and Russia and rich boys club of United Nations .... and reality show tv..... whilst Democrats all talk no action and devour each other daily.... and world knows it
... and Canada we need older more experienced political will not the me, me, me social media bullshite and tv news garbage ... here in the real world.
UK... and Europe is a mess....
Asia ....
Middle East just let China buy them.... Iran just accepted 300 Billion deal with China... and you know Iran is a huge slaughterhouse with Hezbollah and Hamas as their back up plan... so what if one million chinese muslims are in brainwashing slave prisons..... so what...
And Bob Marley's Africa.... the rich black monolithic leaders are greedier and crueler than any white man ever was....
It's 2021 and what has happened to our planet... we are overrun with careless clueless netizens of social media and internet who forget their individual brilliance to shine. And Citizens who what regulary tv blah blah blah which wouldn't have an honest new station that we pay for because the democrat owned global kings rule the world now... not governments and not the people....
WANT PROOF... imho.... here's your proof in 2021 -
Women and girls of the world slaves and #invisible .... and little boys armed with weapons as toy soldiers.... imho
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UNITED NATIONS SHAME.... ewwww It's Mothers Day... and look what is happening to girls and moms in the ugly parts of the world.... #weareallneda2009 #OneBillionRising2021 - no more abuses or excuses...
QUOTE: U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock last week told the council the humanitarian crisis in Tigray had deteriorated with challenges to aid access, people dying of hunger and many reports of "gang rape, with multiple men assaulting the victim; in some cases, women have been repeatedly raped over a period of days." He said girls as young as eight had also been targeted.
The council was unable to agree language last month with Western countries pitted against Russia and China, whose diplomats questioned whether the body - charged with maintaining international peace and security - should be involved.
QUOTE: The U.N. Security Council expressed concern on Thursday about the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, particularly abuse of women and girls, a week after the U.N. aid chief said sexual violence was being used as a weapon of war.It was the first public statement by the 15-member council, which has been briefed five times privately on the conflict, since fighting between Ethiopia's federal government troops and Tigray's former ruling party began in November."The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern about allegations of human rights violations and abuses, including reports of sexual violence against women and girls in the Tigray region, and called for investigations to find those responsible and bring them to justice," it said in the statement, drafted by Ireland and agreed by consensus.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/mwpsak/un_security_council_for_first_time_declares/
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0H SWEET JESUS, MOTHER MARY AND JOSEPH.... United Nations has voted Syria ????? - Assad's Regime to the World Health Organization (WHO)
quote: Doctors in rebel-held Syria protest the election of the Assad regime to the World Health Organization board.
"The revelation was highlighted by the advocacy group UN Watch, which keeps tabs on hypocrisies and other shortcomings of the world body and its affiliated organizations like WHO."
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GLORY TO GOD..... Canada did NOT vote for Iran's inclusion into United Nations Womens Rights Commission...... In Canada women equal men by law. THANK YOU.... but the world must do better for girls and women ... United Nations was formed on the promise in 1945 Charter that all humanity would be equal.
Canada’s ambassador to the U.N. confirmed that his country had not voted for Iran.
QUOTE: Still, ballots were cast in secret, so there’s no easy way to identify the Western countries that sided with Tehran. With only two exceptions, the Western democracies on the commission have remained silent, but as public pressure grew, Canada’s ambassador to the U.N. confirmed that his country had not voted for Iran. #WeAreAllNeda2009 #OneBillionRising2021 -no more abuses or excuses.
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BEST QUOTE OF 2015 from UN : “It is terrifying that on the one hand there is more and more impunity for those starting conflicts, and on the other there is seeming utter inability of the international community to work together to stop wars and build and preserve peace,” said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres in June. 2014
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FROM CANADA WITH LOVE....
We Are All Neda 2009 - Our beautiful social justice warrior girls and women in hard hard parts of the world like Iran - beloved - Nazanin Afshin-Jam Wife of our beloved warrior for our troops, Peter MacKay when not a single politician gave a shite.... Tells story of girl trapped by Iran’s twisted culture #OneBillionRising2021 #weareallneda2009
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#WeAreAllNeda2009
#OneBillionRising2021 - No More Excuses or Abuses
break the chain..... for all women and children globally who make up 64% of world population
ARTICLE:
Incredible Canadian Social Justice Warrior Woman.... Nazanin Afshin-Jam tells story of girl trapped by Iran’s twisted culture
QUOTE:
Her new book, The Tale of Two Nazanins, is a made for Hollywood story without the Hollywood ending. Nazanin Fatehi is Iranian, a Kurd, and poor and brutalized by the men around her. Her father, brother, half-brothers, all beat her, spit on her, treat her as worthless, as a woman without rights marooned in the patriarchal dungeon too many Iranian women know well.
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A family friend rapes her. Another young man attempts to and dies at the point of a knife his would-be victim pushes into his chest. Ms. Fatehi was 17, and sentenced to death for the crime of defending herself from an injustice. It is a wrong that became urgently real for Nazanin Afshin-Jam on a February night in Vancouver in 2006 when an email message popped up on her computer asking for her help.
The Canadian Nazanin responded to the message on her screen by launching a campaign to free the Iranian Nazanin. Using her smarts — she has a political science degree, a Masters’ in diplomacy, a pilot’s licence and speaks Persian, English and French — and her profile as an international beauty queen, she started banging on doors of influential people. In Europe, in Canada and at the United Nations, where she would hand deliver a petition with 350,000 signatures demanding Ms. Fatehi’s release.
Logistical roadblocks, threatening emails and phone calls from men with Middle Eastern accents telling her to drop the campaign, or else, and the blackened heart of the Iranian regime were arrayed against her.
The 33-year-old activist believes change is coming, that the mullahs will fall, eventually. Toppled by the people they oppress, seventy percent of who are under-30, educated, and understand that whenever they gather the necessary courage to rise up the gains they make will be paid for in “blood.”
“This regime will kill people before it leaves and it is going to be ugly but I have no doubt it will happen in my lifetime,” Ms. Afshin-Jam says. “The vast majority wants change.
“It is inevitable.”
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#WeAreAllNeda20009
Firestorm After UN Watch Reveals Iran Elected to UN Women’s Rights Commission
SHAME SHAME SHAME United Nations - #WeareallNeda2009 -
OMG.... Peter Mackay and your warrior princess, Thomas Mulcair, Scott Brison- OH SWEET JESUS... Canada and the world..... of 67% of population is women..... and United Nations promised on formation in 1945 that all humanity would be equal.... in Canada women equal men by law.... one of only 10 nations to do so... even USA does not make women equal men by law..... #UNWatch #UnitedNations #UNWomensRightsCommission #OneBillionRising
Firestorm After UN Watch Reveals Iran Elected to UN Women’s Rights Commission
UN WATCH ELICITS GLOBAL MEDIA COVERAGE:
• Le Figaro (France): Iran elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
“'Iran’s persecution of women is blatant and systematic, both in law and in practice. The UN Secretary-General himself has pointed out the ‘persistent discrimination against women and girls’ in Iran,' protested Hillel Neuer, lawyer, human rights activist and head of UN Watch, a non-governmental organization based in Geneva.
• Voice of America (United States): Iran’s Election to UN Women’s Body Draws Outrage From Rights Activists, US Silence
"Hillel Neuer, the executive director of the Geneva-based group UN Watch, said in an online statement that while ECOSOC typically rubber-stamps regional groups’ nominations for the Commission on the Status of Women, the US exercised its authority as an ECOSOC member to call for a vote. 'I commend the Biden administration for forcing the vote, but they should also speak out to condemn the obscene election of [Iranian Supreme Leader] Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime to a women’s rights body,' Neuer said."
• Daily Mail (United Kingdom): Outrage as Iran is selected to sit on UN women’s rights panel despite laws banning female sports, making the hijab compulsory and forcing married women to get their husband’s permission to leave the country
"Hillel Neuer, director of the Geneva-based group UN Watch, tweeted: 'No joke: UN elects Iranian regime to top women’s rights body. Electing Ayatollah Khamenei’s Islamic Republic of Iran to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief. This is a black day for women’s rights, and for all human rights. Iran’s persecution of women is gross and systematic, both in law and in practice. Iran’s fundamentalist mullahs force women to cover their hair, with many arrested and attacked daily under the misogynistic hijab law. They require a woman to receive permission from her father to get married.'"
• Bild (Germany): Women's rights body accepts Iran
"According to the UN-critical non-governmental organization UN Watch, at least four of the following 15 western democracies must have voted for Iran: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, France, Latvia, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, the United States and Portugal. According to UN Watch chief Hillel Neuer, the election of Iran to the women's rights commission is like making an arsonist into the fire chief. He suspects that backroom political deals led to this maddening election."
• Telegraaf (Netherlands): Fury over Iran joining UN Commission on Women's Rights: "As if proclaiming a pyromaniac as a firefighter"; Foreign Ministry remains silent about voting behavior in the Netherlands
"UN watchdog UN Watch is also angry and calls on European member states and the United States to condemn the election of Iran. 'Like proclaiming a pyromaniac as a firefighter,' said UN Watch head Hillel Neuer. 'Absurd and morally reprehensible.' He calls Iran's accession 'a black day for women's rights and human rights in general.'"
Click here to see more media coverage.
PARLIAMENTARIANS & MEDIA DEMAND ANSWERS: The UN vote was by secret ballot. But thanks to UN Watch, angry opposition MPs pressed their governments to come clean on how they voted.
?• Canada: ?Foreign minister Marc Garneau twice refused to say a word of condemnation of Iran’s election, saying: "Of course, we recognize that the UN, including the Women's Rights Commission is not perfect, but let me be clear - our strong position on the human rights situation in Iran, including women, has been expressed repeatedly both in public and in private and we will continue to do so." When pressed again, he stated: "Votes at the United Nations on these kinds of appointments are done by secret ballot." Click here to see more reactions from Canadian politicians.
https://civicrm.unwatch.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=2094
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Democracies Abetted Iran’s Election to a U.N. Women’s Rights Post
GLORY TO GOD..... Canada did NOT vote for Iran's inclusion into United Nations Womens Rights Commission...... In Canada women equal men by law. THANK YOU.... but the world must do better for girls and women ... United Nations was formed on the promise in 1945 Charter that all humanity would be equal.
Canada’s ambassador to the U.N. confirmed that his country had not voted for Iran.
QUOTE: Still, ballots were cast in secret, so there’s no easy way to identify the Western countries that sided with Tehran. With only two exceptions, the Western democracies on the commission have remained silent, but as public pressure grew, Canada’s ambassador to the U.N. confirmed that his country had not voted for Iran. #WeAreAllNeda2009 #OneBillionRising2021 -no more abuses or excuses.
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BLOGGED:
CANADA MILITARY NEWS- The good (Vance)...the bad (Lib. appt.McNeil's brother)... 2 the f**king ugly-IMF banks and stock markets get a pass 4 stealing $$$trillion of our money/ 6 Nations and UN shove IRAN down billions of women's throats -NEDA- #1BRising- no more excuses UN /Remember Hilary Rodham Clinton Hijacked by her own party... and other memories.... and back 2 the good- our troops and it's Easter and Christians still give a sheet and Afghanistan Voted April 5, 2014-bravest of the brave nations/Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Canada /Halifax Explosion/SHAME ON ELITES... TORONTO SYMPHONY- let Valentina Play - SHAME ON U- Ukraine's White Man's War of Nato on Russia is ugly and killing./MAY 5- 2day Canada celebrates victory and freedom of Netherlands and if TERRORIST OMAR KHADR is freed 2day in our Canada- monsters truly win in the face of our glorious brave troops
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.com/2015/04/canada-military-news-good-vancethe-bad.html
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CANADA MILITARY NEWS- The good (Vance)...the bad (Lib. appt.McNeil's brother)... 2 the f**king ugly- banks and stock markets get a pass 4 stealing $$$trillion of our money/ 6 Nations and UN shove IRAN down billions of women's throats -NEDA- #1BRising- no more excuses UN /Remember Hilary Rodham Clinton Hijacked by her own party... and other memories.... and back 2 the good- our troops and it's Easter and Christians still give a sheet and Afghanistan Voted April 5 2014-bravest of the brave nations/Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Canada /Halifax Explosion
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2015/04/canada-military-news-good-vancethe-bad.html
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BLOGGED:
F**KING BANKS/IMF/Corporate-Political/UN greed caused FINANCIAL CRASH- and 2day.... we are still there and close 2 a billion are unemployed and 4.3 billion eat dirt 4 breakfast- WTF???-15 million Canadians/101 million Americans/8million Brits/80Million Muslims/32million europeans/14 million Africans etc.- CHEATERS/CHEATERS- August 27 update
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2014/07/fking-bankscorporatepoliticalun-greed.html
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2016- nothing has changed at United Nations has it...
BLOGSPOT: july 10-2013
UNITED NATIONS- $4billionyr Unhuman Rights Council- where even USA refuses to sign WOMEN R EQUAL and children matter -LOOK AT THE MONSTERS $4billion a yr UN does 2 women and kids
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/united-nations-unhuman-rights-council.html
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MY POETRY... Am an old momma- have been watching the backs of our Canadian and Nato Troopers since 2001- Our Canada...
how many tears and prayers
how many cheers
how glowing our pride
how reflecting inside
we wear Red on Fridays
we support troops always
in the streets on the roads
on the net by the droves
we weep, we scream, we pray
and we start again every day
we r the surviors of WWII
found the hard way what freedom can do
we can have peace on our knees
or blood and scars of freedom's breeze
that so many try to steal from the poor
in places that UN pretends don't count anymore
NATO stands up true and brave
cause each person's life is worth a save
and if u can march against war in ur safe world
how can u actually say freedom 4 each boy and girl
our children wearing our flags fight and die 4 u
and supporting ur troops is the very least u can do
get up, and work hard to prove
that Canada's children of flags deserve honour from u
Written May 26, 2013
old tired momma Nova- still here 4 our Canada and Nato Troopers wearing our flags-WE ARE the millions of silent majority around the world... and we love you then, now... always
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Monday, August 31, 2020
OLD LIVES MATTER- Elder Care in Canada so we can stay the blazes home safe- How to get help /Canada Red Cross-Annapolis Valley/VON - Queen Victoria's Nurses (nursing without borders)/ Nova Scotia /Canada Federal Gov- Links always /EMMERGENCY BACKUP PLANS... power of attorney/Commissioner For Oaths/when ur poor n need help
JUST IN SEPT. 8- some good news...
Nova Scotia easing restrictions to allow designated caregivers to help long-term care residents
WOW.... THE GOOD STUFF.... #DesignatedCareGivers - #OldLivesMatter
quote: Nova Scotia announced Tuesday that with new cases of COVID-19 remaining low in the province, it will further ease restrictions in long-term care homes and allow designated caregivers to help care for and support residents.
According to the province, designated caregivers can be family members, spouses, friends or other support people.
“They must be associated with specific caregiving tasks like personal care support, mobility or help with eating, and have an established caregiving relationship with the resident prior to COVID-19,” the government said in a press release.
The province implemented the following changes to be enforced by long-term care facilities:
Work with residents and families to identify up to two designated caregivers per resident; only one designated caregiver may visit at a time.
Train caregivers on public health requirements, including masking, good hand and respiratory hygiene, and facility procedures.
Provide medical masks for caregivers to wear while with residents.
Establish processes to screen caregivers upon entry and to easily identify caregivers onsite.
These changes are set to be implemented by individual long-term care homes as early as Sept. 11, the province said.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7321304/nova-scotia-easing-restrictions-designated-caregivers-long-term-care/
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EVERLASTING LIGHT- nathan young
One Day
We will all be together again
Where the sun shines on Eternity
Where happiness is everlasting.
We take these long roads through life
Some of us see the setting Sun
Some fight the darkness
All found in light
Together in the End.
One day
In the End
We will sit at the table
Built for us by God
For it is on that day
We will rejoice
In our love for each other.
We can only wonder
To ourselves
And with our Loved Ones
That this day will come
And it will..
And we shall dine in the Everlasting Light.
- Nathan Tarrant Young
Thank you.... #WeSeeYou and we Love you.... and always our #Troopers and #Veterans and #Volunteers - VON; RED Cross and all the volunteer organizations.... and churches etc. and communities that come together.... breathing hope, love and kindness raising us up over all the bad shite of 2020. xoxoxo
Annapolis Valley...... Long-Term Care at Home- Queen Victoria's nurses.... nursing without borders...... #OLDLIVESMATTER
VON RN, Gareth, caring for a client at home in August 2019.
Article by Jo-Anne Poirier, President and CEO, VON Canada. Originally published on LinkedIn.
Last week, I had the opportunity to present to the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly as Ontario considers Bill 175, Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act.
As an organization that has been serving communities in Ontario and across Canada for more than 120 years, VON values the efforts of government to improve our health system as a whole.
Home and community care are vital components of Canada’s overall health care system. We provide life-sustaining clinical care and support at home to people of all ages, and with a wide range of complex and acute health challenges. Community support programs like meals on wheels, transportation and adult day programs reduce social isolation and help seniors remain healthy and independent. Overall, home and community care reduce hospital visits and help keep people out of long-term care. They are the lowest-cost component of our health system, and have the added benefit of enabling people to remain at home, where they want to be.
In my presentation to the Standing Committee, I urged members to consider lessons learned to date from COVID-19 as government looks to implement the new Home and Community Care Act.
If we have learned anything during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that home is the safest place to receive care. Infection rates among home care clients and employees are lower by far than in any other part of the health sector.
And yet, as our health system prepared for the pandemic, home care visits were pulled back, elderly patients in hospital were shifted into long-term care, and tragically, infection rates among seniors soared. Our health system’s approach to the pandemic has destabilized the home and community care sector, with literally thousands of home care employees across Ontario leaving the sector due to lack of stable work. Individuals and families have been left with little to no alternative care options, often having to visit emergency rooms, putting themselves and their loved ones at risk.
André Picard expressed it this way in his June 16th Globe and Mail column: “Out of fear of a mass influx of coronavirus patients that could overwhelm hospitals, beds were emptied in record time. Virtual care was embraced (…). Elective surgeries were cancelled. Patients listed as needing an "alternate level of care" – meaning they were discharged, but also classified as too "high-need" to go home – occupied as many as one-third of hospital beds and were shipped off to long-term care and nursing homes. Virtually no one was discharged to the safety of their own home. And those who were already getting home-care services saw these services cut back drastically.”
We have all learned a lot during COVID. If and when we are faced with the second wave of the virus, we must ensure that all parts of the health sector are ready to provide the best support possible to Ontarians. We must re-think how home and community care are delivered – to streamline access and to help keep our citizens out of hospital and long-term care. In fact, to deliver “long-term care at home”.
VON and other providers in our sector can help develop the solutions. We will need the support and commitment of government to address longstanding obstacles including how home care is allocated by government, and how front-line workers are paid. We need a system that provides greater access to home care for patients and their families, more stable employment for front-line home care workers, and better ways to match providers and patients to ensure continuity of care. This can only be accomplished by significant change in how the home and community system works.
All of us – government, home and community care providers, hospitals, long-term care providers – want the same thing – to serve Ontarians well. To keep people safe and well, to provide care to those in poor and failing health, and to ensure access to the right care, at the right time, and in the right place. For VON, the right place is home.
https://www.von.ca/en/annapolis/news/thinking-about-long-term-care-home?fbclid=IwAR04pEyjo761Jvgt9LptNWMIfK-C7oWCFdGYfl8OIx-kUJu14fQWCVSR1Ik
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How does the Caregiver Benefit work?
Both the caregiver and the person for whom he/she provides care must meet the program’s eligibility criteria. The Nova Scotia Health Authority determines eligibility through a referral and assessment process. The Caregiver Benefit is reportable income so caregivers should contact Canada Revenue Agency for information about tax implications.
How do I know if I qualify for the program?
If you feel you may qualify for the program you will need to contact Continuing Care at 1-800-225-7225 for an initial discussion about your situation. A referral may then be made to a care coordinator who will meet with you to do an assessment to identify your care needs and determine if you qualify for the program.
Applicants who are assessed as having high care needs have some combination of:
Moderate to significant problems with memory loss, decision-making and communication that affect daily functioning.
High level of physical impairment.
Many challenges in managing their personal needs.
Serious behavioural problems.
A high risk of falls.
A high risk of long term care placement
Additional programs and funding
If your parent requires special equipment or assistive devices such as a wheelchair or walker, the following programs can help:
The Home & Vehicle Modification Program is funded by the Government of Ontario and administered by March of Dimes Canada to help Ontarians whose mobility and daily living activities are substantially restricted by an injury, birth defect, or long-term illness. If you live in British Columbia, PEI, Quebec, or Manitoba, click here to learn about similar programs available to you.
For more than 50 years, the Canadian Red Cross has been offering the Health Equipment Loan Program (HELP). This program is available to residents of British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Yukon.
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Assistive Devices Program provides financial assistance to purchase medical equipment and supplies for those who qualify.
Ceridian Cares provides grants for not only assistive devices, but also clothing and footwear, food and basic household needs, and personal development and recreation to those who qualify.
I also recommend contacting national disease/illness-specific organizations (such as Muscular Dystrophy Canada, The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis [ALS] Canada) for funding that they may provide.
Individual or local branches of national charitable organizations may provide funding for assistive devices. You can use the national websites to access the contact information for local clubs. Each club or local branch may have different offerings and application processes.
Lions Club International
Kiwanis International
Rotary International
Government and charitable organization programs often change and evolve. It is a good idea to regularly check the above websites for the latest in financial assistance and support.
To my Uncle Harold #WWII and Grandpa Bud Young ..... old dogs and children and watermelon wine..... how you loved this song... in your cups at the legion.... letting the old women cheat you at cards....
BACK UP PLANS... AND HELP FOR ELDERS...
ELDERS- the backup plan- especially during the horrific disease coronavirus pandemic- IN CASE OF EMMERGENCY.... Nova Scotia
Emmergencey Health Services - nova scotia 1-888-346-9999
ie a dear friend how has horrible disabilities ran out of meds whilst doctor was on vacation.... after 5 day of horrific pain.... as our local
Kentville Police Service
whilst on another matter for suggestions ... because frankly when your broker than dirt and in nightmare pain... the luxury of a $500 ambulance is just that... a luxury.... and emmergency waiting rooms during the pandemic.... you might as well take a sleeping bag, a book and your bible.... for a long long wait..... WELL GUESS WHAT #Elders - In our
Nova Scotia
we can call -Emergency Health Services - nova scotia 1-888-346-9999 who can often proved a free home visit and help lift some of the fear and pain that only your doctor and pharmacist can help with in our normal times.... and in this day and horrific age.... a hard way to die....
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ELDERS- the backup plan- especially during the horrific disease #coronavirus pandemic- POWER OF ATTORNEY- Also for some elders like me because of this horrendous theft of our old lives of normal.... many are uncomfortable going out banking etc.... well the bank will only accept your son/daughter family member with a legally signed Power of Attorney... and that was hell on wheels to find out about.... but you know did it... and guess what.... that glorious glorious
Nova Scotia Legal Aid
Town Of Kentville
- perfect as usual.... were extraordinry .... you can simply go online (yes I know many elders (like me) still have landlines... cable that's the shites for any good programming.... and many do NOT have internet.... but you have family that do.... and it's simply going online and starting a form at this site.... ---------------------------------
ELDERS- the backup plan- especially during the horrific disease coronavirus pandemic- COMMISSIONERS OF OATH verifying the legality of a document.
by the by... thanks out to our
Kentville Police Service
- (and Jennifer from
Town Of Kentville
for suggesting)..... FOR ELDERS especially during the pandemic.... and students and any Canadian... They Police have appointed 'Commissioners Of Oath' who can authorize certification of your document... ie birth certificate, social insurance, medical, passport or what ever.... in these times it's important to not eh?
ONE ARTICLE: Nova Scotia - I need a Commissioner of Oaths or Notary Public
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