Afghanistan 90 days Algeria 14 weeks Angola 90 days Argentina 90 days Australia 0 weeks Austria 16 weeks Bahamas, The 8 weeks Bahrain 45 days Bangladesh 12 weeks Barbados 12 weeks Belarus 126 days Belgium 15 weeks Belize 12 weeks Benin 14 weeks Bolivia 60 days Botswana 12 weeks Brazil 120 days Bulgaria 120-180 days Burkina Faso 14 weeks Burma 12 weeks Burundi 12 weeks Cambodia 90 days Cameroon 14 weeks Canada 55% up to $413/week for 50 weeks (15 weeks maternity + 35 weeks parental leave shared with father) Central African Republic 14 weeks Chad 14 weeks Chile 18 weeks China 90 days Colombia 12 weeks Comoros 14 weeks Congo, Democratic Republic of the 14 weeks Costa Rica 4 months Cuba 18 weeks Cyprus 16 weeks Côte d’Ivoire 14 weeks Denmark 18 weeks Djibouti 14 weeks Dominica 12 weeks Dominican Republic 12 weeks Ecuador 12 weeks Egypt 50 days El Salvador 12 weeks Equatorial Guinea 12 weeks Estonia 455 calendar days (100%) Ethiopia 90 days Fiji 84 days Finland 105 days France 16 weeks (100%) rising to 26 weeks (100%) for third child Gabon 14 weeks Gambia, The 12 weeks Germany 14 weeks (100%) 6 before birth Ghana 12 weeks Greece 16 weeks Grenada 3 months Guatemala 12 weeks Guinea 14 weeks Guinea-Bissau 60 days Guyana 13 weeks Haiti 12 weeks Honduras 10 weeks Hungary 24 weeks Iceland 90 days 80% up to a ceiling of Íkr480,000 (€5,300, $6,700) monthly (minimum monthly payment Íkr 91,200 (€1000, $1,275) + 90 days to be shared between the parents India 135 days (Central Government) 90 days or 12 weeks in State Governments Indonesia 3 months Iran 90 days Iraq 62 days Ireland 22 weeks (26 weeks from March 2007) Israel 12 weeks Italy 22 weeks (5 months) (80%) 2 before birth Jamaica 12 weeks Japan 14 weeks Jordan 10 weeks Kenya 2 months Korea, South 60 days Kuwait 70 days Laos 90 days Lebanon 40 days Libya 50 days Liechtenstein 8 weeks Luxembourg 16 weeks Madagascar 14 weeks Malaysia 60 days Mali 14 weeks Malta 13 weeks Mauritania 14 weeks Mauritius 12 weeks Mexico 12 weeks Mongolia 101 days Morocco 12 weeks Mozambique 60 days Namibia 12 weeks Nepal 52 days Netherlands 16 weeks New Zealand 14 weeks Nicaragua 12 weeks Niger 14 weeks Nigeria 12 weeks Norway 54 weeks (12.5 months) (80%) or 44 weeks (10 months) (100%) - mother must take at least 3 weeks immediately before birth and 6 weeks immediately after birth, father must take at least 6 weeks - the rest can be shared between mother and father. Pakistan 12 weeks Panama 14 weeks Paraguay 12 weeks Peru 90 days Philippines 60 days Poland 16-18 weeks Portugal 120 days Qatar 40-60 days Romania 112 days Russia 140 days Rwanda 12 weeks Saint Lucia 13 weeks Saudi Arabia 10 weeks Senegal 14 weeks Seychelles 14 weeks Singapore 12 weeks Solomon Islands 12 weeks Somalia 14 weeks South Africa 12 weeks Spain 16 weeks Sri Lanka 12 weeks Sudan 8 weeks Sweden 480 days (16 months) (80% up to a ceiling the first 390 days, 90 days at flat rate) - shared with father (minimum 60 days) Switzerland 16 weeks (100%), 8 weeks mandatory Syria 75 days Tanzania 12 weeks Thailand 90 days Togo 14 weeks Tunisia 30 days Turkey 12 weeks Uganda 4 weeks Ukraine 126 days United Arab Emirates 45 days United Kingdom 6 weeks (90%) 20 weeks at a fixed amount (as of March 2006 = £108.85) United States 0 weeks Uruguay 12 weeks Venezuela 18 weeks Vietnam 4-6 months Yemen 60 days Zambia 12 weeks Zimbabwe 90 days
The U.S. and Australia with the outstanding 0 days or weeks of mandated paid maternity leave.
AUSTRALIA :|||||
Seriously though, what the fuck, country. We need to get it together.
JOSEPH KONY HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 2 YEARS
KONY 2012 PSY-OP SHATTERRED – JOSEPH KONY HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 2 YEARS
An informant in contact with Libya 360° has confirmed that the Lord’s Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony, died two years ago. He was captured during an operation sponsored and aided by US Special forces. He was executed along with hundreds of fighters and children who had been recruited into the LRA.
Further details cannot be revealed at this time. I am confident that this information is accurate.
In light of the current military operations taking place throughout Africa and the Middle East, this disclosure gives us further cause to question everything we are being told about present conflicts, coups, counter-coups and terrorist activity.
Of immediate concern is what the US agenda actually is.
This video describes AFRICOM’s current training of Ugandan forces in preparation for their work in Somalia.
In the past week, US Special Forces organized a press conference in the Central African Republic where they joined Ugandan officers in blaming Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for the survival of East African warlord and his Lord’s Resistance Army. *
Alexandra Valiente
Libya 360°See: Kony 2012
US Special Forces Hunting Down Joseph Kony
#Kony2012 II: License To Kill For Imperial Conquest
#Kony 2012 Vs NATO War Crimes
Beyond #Kony2012. What Is Really Happening In Uganda?
#Kony2012, Uganda And AFRICOM
Soros-Funded HRW Join The Kony 2012 Crusade
#Kony2012: A Justification For More African Wars For Oil
NATO’s Grand Scheme: Syria, Iran And Kony2012 War Propaganda
Kony 2012 Psyops Collapsing
What Jason Didn’t Tell Gavin And His Army Of Invisible Children
Kony 2012: The Accurate Campaign Poster
Kony 2012: 10 Questions For “Invisible Children”
Kony 2012: Revisiting Mass Murder In Uganda And A Sanctioned UN Land Grab
Youth Movement Promotes US Military Presence In Central Africa
Keith Harmon Snow: The Plunder And Depopulation Of Central Africa
Why Is The US Chasing Kony And The LRA?
Kony 2012 And The Imperialist Scramble For Africa
Kony2012: Globalists Bring Down Campaign With A Spectacular Crash
#Kony2012: License For Imperial Conquest
Armies Of The Lord: Militarists, Multinationals, And The Christian Right In AfricaBUT OMFG BUT JASON RUSSLEL SAID HE’S OUT THERE!??
I wish people would research a little on something before jumping the bandwagon
if a white person makes a dodgy video saying a person in some African country is being horrible yet he doesn’t proivide ANY details to back up this fact and nobody is listening to people who ACTUALLY live in that country, nor does he even involve Ugandans in his scam video?
be fucking suspicious.
this was the worst case of White and Western Savior and Ignorance to date
the fucking worst. everyone who believed this scam should hang their head in shame. you have added to the IGNORANT SHIT Ugandans faced when Russell started this lie.
this is not Africa
(Hebrew readers: try googling KONY 2012 in hebrew. For change, I am pleased with the first results from the mainstream Israeli media. :P *remove hipster glasses*)
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Pictures related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I know that it has been a complaint among many that pictures are circulating with either misleading and inaccurate information, or are are simply the same photos posted over and over.
Perhaps alternative picture sources could be the monthly round-ups from sites like Electronic Intifada and 972 Magazine | Images.
To change things up, perhaps you can look into the Photo Essays page on Jadaliyya.
Knock yourselves out!
I wish these tumblr were more international
so we could see how these things vary outside the States. Environment plays such a big factor too in the shift of power dynamics and structures. I was talking about this with a few people a couple of weeks ago. From the Middle East to elsewhere these things shift, but again anti-Blackness is a prerequisite for most societies. But like, a lot of things differ from some of the dialogues I see on here. I need to follow s’more outside this continent and the States.
This. I’m so tired of the US-centrism on Tumblr (and to some extend the UK-centrism too, though at least I can use that). I’m so tired of how all social issues has the get discussed through the eyes of the US, with their vocabulary, and their understanding of terms - even when you’re discussing things which doesn’t have a goddamn shit to do with the US. I can’t fucking use it to anything. How am I to educate myself on my own privileges, and to get inspiration on how to deal with issues I experience when everything is so US-centric? BAH.
Any of my followers who can recommend some good non-US tumblrs, who deal with racism, xenophobia, misogynism, queerphobia, disablism, etc? I read English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and German, if that helps, am trying to get into reading Greek and Dutch, and I’m open to use google translate for blogs in languages I don’t know.
Many of my followers are non-Native English speakers. Myself, I am British citizen but as a Roma I blog from a different perspective about issues.
Yeah! I too feel very uncomfortable about this every day. I find that there’s a mindset even in a patently international site like Tumblr that if you are on it you must be English speaking (and do you all forget how nastily people react to the idea of people using Tumblr in OTHER LANGUAGES OH NO), and that if you’re English speaking then you must be, or probably are, USAmerican.
I’ve noticed a number of things that I think are unacceptable: it is assumed that all talk of ANYTHING is talk of USAmerica. “Queer people” means not Queer people but “Queer people in USAmerica”, “the economy” means not the global economy but “the USAmerican Economy” and of course “National” means Global or Universal (because for many people it’s like USAmerica is the world), and “America” is always The United States of America. And this is despite many of the people who write being well aware of having an international audience. Because we (the international audience) are always EXCEPTIONAL. Conversely, this is reflected in the way people write about international affairs. It is always in terms of “They”, as if, of course, none of these people we are talking about who are from elsewhere could POSSIBLY be reading your blog. I think this contributes to othering, and is often associated the with idea of that developing (or “Third World” countries can’t possibly have a presence online (no one but You experiences “First World Problems”, of course not!). Moreover, people often also write about international affairs with the idea that it necessary to justify how/why this is important in terms of how it effects USAmerica or the Western World, because it couldn’t possibly just BE IMPORTANT.
This is, of course, a symptom of a bigger problem, but I think drawing awareness to these issues is important and constructive, so I would like to take this chance to ask something of my followers. I would like to ask everyone to please look at what they write and think: is this truly universal, or does it apply only/in particular to the US? And if does apply particularly to the US, NOTE IT. It is anywhere from irritating to erasing to see a post that starts [GENERAL GROUP OF PEOPLE] and pretends to talk about generalities when it’s actually about very specific issues in USAmerica (or in the Western World). Are you writing about urban poverty in the USA? SAY “IN THE USA”. Are you sharing helplines and other resources which are only for the US? PLEASE SAY SO. Are you advertising something, or selling something, or sharing something which is only available in the US? Please let people know! This is basic. Afterwards, try to think if you you could possibly make your language or your posts more inclusive, and at least try to be aware that the US is not the World, and there are people from All Over The World online.
