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On 16th September, 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini has been murdered by the police “for not wearing her hijab properly”. This tragic event has caused a wave of protests across Iran for 10 days now. Security forces violently suppress protests by beating people, opening fires or firing tear gas. At least 54 people had died since the protests begun. In my opinion, killing a woman, because some tiny part of her skin or a few strands of her hair are visible is just so wrong. Situations like that shouldn’t be happening in these times, but sadly they’re still quite common. In relatively many countries woman are still being downgraded. I know that the protests are dangerous, because of how aggressive security forces are, but I think that there is a hope that they can actually help putting a stop to mistreating woman, so they should continue, so maybe something finally changes.   source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-protests-kurdistan-separatist...

 A catastrophic flooding happened in Italy’s central Marche region last Thursday (15.09). People have lost their everything; not only food or furniture but also souvenirs of their loved ones. Some people are still missing. It was the worst storm to affect this region since 2014. Within nine hours, there fell one third of a yearly average of rain – 420 mm.. Marche residents are angry, mostly at politicians, because nobody warned them of intense storms. Italy is really vulnerable to climate change, e. g. breaking the European record last year – reaching 48,8C. On Friday, Enrico Letta – the leader of the centre-left Democratic party, asked why fight against this crisis isn’t a first priority and the topic had been absent since the debate. Politicians don’t treat it as a relevant problem, but an obstacle for economy. They only mention this issue in the middle of an emergency. 120 000 people signed a petition for political leaders to make climate crisis a priority. Italy ha...