Last week, Turkey announced its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, a fundamental European treaty that aims to prevent and combat domestic violence and other types of violence against women. As a result, thousands of people took to the streets of Turkish cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir on Saturday to protest. The country become angrier after the trending Turkish…
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Evando Thompson is a GLOJO student whose joint program is in European and Mediterranean Studies. Originally born in Jamaica, Evando grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. Thompson graduated in May 2020 from Seton Hall University with a bachelor's degree in journalism. At Seton Hall, he worked as a sideline reporter, radio newscaster and web editor for the school newspaper.
In the near future he would like to work in Germany, the country where he will specify his research in at NYU. His graduate research interests includes the unifying role soccer has played in Germany throughout its history and the social, economical and ethical impact of access to water in the country.
As far as long term goals, Evando would love to work on documentaries on a global scale or become a foreign correspondent.
In March 2020, schools, businesses and sporting events shut down as life as we knew it in Europe and around the world was completely altered. As leaders implemented travel restrictions and lockdowns, many Europeans wondered just how long the COVID-19 virus would last. Deniers of the threat presented by the novel coronavirus sprang up all over Europe. Notoriously, their voices…
No country in Europe boasts a higher vaccination rate for COVID-19 than the United Kingdom, as the political union has 21 vaccine doses per 100 people currently. The UK also ranks second in the world in vaccines per capita. The government plans to vaccinate 15 million people by mid-February and the early numbers reflect that it’s on track. The policy…
Ukraine Continues to Lag Behind its European Counterparts in Vaccine Rollout
Photo credit: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-separatist-areas-coronavirus-threat-considerable/30561756.html In Ukraine’s second month of its immunization campaign against COVID-19, it’s attempting to reach an ambitious feat — to vaccinate most of the adult population, 70 percent of the country, by year’s end. In terms of vaccination rates, Ukraine ranks dead last in Europe: averaging about 15,000 to 20,000 vaccinations a day. Taking into account that adults…