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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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After lodging a sexual harassment complaint against a coworker at her job in 2009, Cynthia Watson says she was shunned in the office. Do people have policies in place? Frye says DEI work has to be more than coming up with a policy. She was characterized as a troublemaker, and her concerns were ignored.

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A quick explainer for COP26 — here’s how climate negotiations work and what’s at stake

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I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. 12, 2021, after a one-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These interactions are based on months of prior discussions, policy papers and proposals prepared by groups of states, U.N.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

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Gore may not have gotten the policy response he wanted, but the film jump-started a national conversation about our role in global warming. . Yes, there were claims that renewables were responsible for the failure of the electrical grid during the 2021 Texas freeze , but it was the fossil-fuel machinery that froze!).

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