内容摘要：On May 4, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, reported that two helicopter gunships had bombed its medical facility in Old Fangak the day before and fired at the town, killing seven and injuring 20 others. Deliberate attacks on a medical facility performing its humanitarian function violate international humanitarian law and would constitute a war crime.  This is yet another indication of why the UNSC must renew the arms embargo and strengthen its enforcement.

On May 4, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, reported that two helicopter gunships had bombed its medical facility in Old Fangak the day before and fired at the town, killing seven and injuring 20 others. Deliberate attacks on a medical facility performing its humanitarian function violate international humanitarian law and would constitute a war crime.  This is yet another indication of why the UNSC must renew the arms embargo and strengthen its enforcement.

at a fundraiser for his aborted 2024 presidential run. Not only is there no evidence of a conspiracy to infect certain white and Black folk with COVID. There is no evidence to suggest that any particular group is immune to the disease. Kennedy’s racism apparently is also anti-Jewish in nature.Earlier this month, Kennedy announced that he had

authorised Medicaid and Medicare to share private datawith the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in building a national database of autistic recipients “to uncover the root causes of autism” – which he considers a “preventable disease” – by September. Above and beyond his other statements, this decisionsmacks of the work of eugenicists from the previous century

. Except that state governments across the US and fascist governments like Nazis used such lists to institutionalise those with autism and other disabilities from society. In the US, sterilisation was the method used in an attempt to protect the collective gene pool from contamination, whileNazi Germany famously used euthanasia

. Clearly, Kennedy is an old-style anti-vaccine, ableist and racist eugenicist.

The new eugenics of the 21st century, though, is longtermism. Longtermism is really a 21st-century version of Social Darwinism’s “survival of the fittest” and the eugenics movement it spawned. Longtermism is not specifically about preserving a master white race. Yet longtermism also plays well within the eugenics sandbox. Longtermism’s advocates are at work to save humanity from extinction by making humans better and by making better humans. But this “betterment” comes with two caveats. One is thatScottish scientist James Gall indeed first published an identical projection in a science journal in 1855, but it went unnoticed. There is no proof, some researchers say, that Peters outrightly plagiarised Gall, but critics say his failure to credit the earlier researcher is still problematic.

In 2016, the debate resurfaced with renewed vigour after public schools in the US city of Boston switched to what many now refer to as the “Gall-Peters” projection. Officials said the move was part of a three-year effort to “decolonise the curriculum”. Teachers said they were amazed to see students questioning their view of the world after the switch.However, many experts and map enthusiasts were annoyed by the fact that Boston chose Peters, and as such, gave the projection renewed relevance.

Al Jazeera reached out to the Boston Public Schools (BPS) for comment.Amid the Boston schools’ drama, one group of researchers decided they’d had enough of Peters and set out to do something.